Recent content by Ed4sobrevivencia

I wanted to share with you all a couple of photos from my visit to the museum. I was fortunate to have a chance to inspect and photograph the fire pistons and bamboo strike-a-lights in their holdings. I also saw sets of fire thongs, hand drills and several beautiful Inuit strap drills...

I have to say that you accomplished something I've dreamed about for years. Great work! Thank you so much for sharing that with us. I can't say how thrilled I am that you found someone who could build them and got it on film. A million thanks to you, him and all others involved. Thank you so...

http://s247.photobucket.com/albums/gg128/depth-of-field/Primitive%20Fire/ The videos I posted may help explain things. The source of all sources is Walter Hough's book 'Fire as an Agent in Human Culture." Better are the people BOD is finding and interviewing!!! Great work BOD! I just may...

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and photos. A great read! Ed So. California

Walter Hough succeeded in making fire with the bamboo strike-a-light around 1929 using an example at the US National Museum. Walter was the head curator of anthropology at the time and wrote the books 'Fire as an Agent in Human Culture' and 'Fire Making Apparatus....', another Smithsonian...

ASH and Tom, thanks for your kind words! I’ve had so much fun investigating this remarkable way of starting fire. It led me to meeting you all on BushcraftUK and to a new love for bamboo. I’d prefer to say that _we_ did it, as it was a collaborative effort indeed. Congratulations to...

Hey ASH, Nice millennium falcon. I've also tested many mushrooms, lots of interesting smells when they burn, I never know if I should hold my breath or not. This page may give you a primer to your quest for polypore I.D. http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/polypore.html Good luck, Ed

Here is a very interesting paper on the ethnobotany of a tribe in West Papua. It has a paragraph about the fire thong method and includes a list of plant species used. Also is a reference to another paper which describes the method in more detail...

This thread has been all over from fire thong to bamboo percussion to plant taxonomy! How about a little Kung Fu Firepiston? Well I just wanted to show you the Caryota mitis tinder in one of my small firepistons. I think I'll edit in some sound effects later on but you'll get why I call it...

I had to laugh when I went to the furniture supply warehouse and the sales lady asked me what I wanted the rattan for. I told her to make a thong......boy did she think that was funny. It turns out that one of her biggest cane buyers uses them to make S&M canes. Oh, she also said that most of...

I think the video speaks for itself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_DX_BL57jc From Rabbitstick 2007. Here is the link to the YouTube video that shows Ray doing it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdIBkJ_YBsk&feature=related and another great one...

After figuring out the bow drill, fire plow, fire saw, fire thong, hand drill and made several fire pistons, I still hadn't had success making fire by simply hitting two rocks together. I was even starting to doubt that the anthropologist knew what the heck they were talking about in all those...

Hi Tom and all, I just posted a photo for you in the Gallery. http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg128/depth-of-field/Palm%20tinder/CaryotamitisTinder.jpg Ed

BOD and all, O.K., I’ve been learning a lot about bamboo and have found some good info to help find out what the species of bamboo is that you got on your bamboo fire quest. Tom already listed this info but I'll repeat it: According to the plant names website...