My first bow drill fire successes: Caught on video.

[RoadLessTraveled]

I'm very happy to know that that Texas Sotol is getting spread around. Good luck with your house repairs. I will be excited to see your hand drill success! I'll be praying for your tennis elbow to heal quickly!

Oh, and RoadLessTravelled, I still have those pieces of sotol for hand drill practice which were gifted to me by someone, but which originally came from you. My elbow injury (I have a bad case of tennis elbow) will, I hope, be well enough so I can finally get down to learning to use make a fire by hand drill using the sotol.

[dave fuches]

congrats on your successful project!!

[your_comforting_company]

That smile is the best part Most excellent!
Good work!
If I were to make one suggestion, it'd be put some grease on that top block. that is burning calories that would be better spent on the other end of the stick.
and practice, practice, practice!!

[AH64TI]

Good Job! I suppose I will have to continue working on it. I normally get to annoyed to continue trying.

[SurvivalGeorge]

Congratulations! Very nicely done, such a cool thing to be able to do!

[DomC]

Kudos to you on this milestone!

DomC

[MrFixIt]

Thank you for sharing your experience.

[Hellraiser]

Thank you all for those kind comments. ....
My thanks again and hope this helps,
- Martin

Thank you, Martin... it is posts like this... that folks have said I need to join this site. Your patiently tenacious approach to achieving your goal... is certainly worthy of great respect. Your laid-back attitude... is admirable.

One of the best 14+ minutes that I have spent watching videos... FOR OVER A YEAR!

Thank you,

^..^