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    friction firelighting, cheating with electric drill, but still no ember

    Thanks for the encouragement, all who responded. I'll try again with different hearth and drill woods, and maybe be more patient with the smokey dust; the idea of moving the hearth away and then leaving it to coalesce makes sense too. I live at the north end of Somerset; does anyone know...
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    friction firelighting, cheating with electric drill, but still no ember

    Thats funny, I'd read that, could have sworn he recommended hazel; turns out on a second reading, he didnt mention it at all. Might try some birch or willow then, plenty around here. So its maybe not the drill causing the problem then?
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    friction firelighting, cheating with electric drill, but still no ember

    Hi, as you can tell from the title, I'm a total newby here, trying to get to 'first base' with friction firelighting, by getting a smoking coal. I've been using a peice of hazel about 12mm diameter on a hearth cut from the same tree, about 20mm thick, (with a straight cut 45 degree slice taken...
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