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    One-Armed Fireplow

    Please share your photos!
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    One-Armed Fireplow

    deleted by myself...mistakenly posted twice
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    One-Armed Fireplow

    Here are some photos of my setup: I find it useful to place my palm or thumb at the end of the trough to catch and stop the wood powder... Today I had success using Bamboo on Bamboo (or maybe it is Giant Reed--not sure). It ended up being easier than using Sotol on itself after...
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    One-Armed Fireplow

    As a matter of ritual, I engage in hand drill and fireplow everyday. One aspect of each that has bothered me in the past is that these techniques have traditionally required the participant to bend over and stress one's back muscles, of which I have significantly damaged in the past. For...
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    Fire from Quartz

    I've gotten fire recently using these tourmaline and quartz crystals in conjunction with char-cloth. I'm going to char some mullein leaves tonight to see if they are good to use as well. Then I can abandon the char-cloth, and eventually hope to use some sort of mineral for a striker instead of...
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    Got an article published in Rock&Gem Magazine

    I just received a copy of the August issue. They used one of my photos on the cover, in the upper right-hand corner: Here's the first two pages of my article--they did a good job with the formatting:
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    Percussion Firestarting

    I also want to show you the method of arranging the char-cloth that works best for me thus far: Wrapping the char-cloth around the leading, or striking, edge of the flint allows sparks that shoot out above and below the flint to hit the char-cloth. I think this arrangement allows me to...
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    Percussion Firestarting

    I'd like to share with you something I've been doing and want your input if you have experience with it. I spent the day making fires with an iron file striker and various rocks and minerals. I wanted to see what would actually ignite char-cloth (and then get to flames). I was able to make...
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    new article--wondering if it's good enough for the magazine

    I wrote a new article about sculpting soft stone and wonder if it's appropriate for the Bushcraft magazine. Here's a link to it on my website: http://www.stoneageskills.com/images/Pendant_Article_for_website--pdf.pdf I still need to make a few very minor changes. Let me know what you...
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    looking for marcasite

    hello! pardon me if this post is in the wrong forum topic. does anyone have a source for marcasite? i've been looking for a couple of years without any success. seems as though Europe is the place to look, although i just got an email from someone who found some in northern Washington state...
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    can quartz crystals be found in the UK?

    can quartz crystals be found in the UK?
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    Yucca in the UK? looking for a few leaves...

    i'm currently expanding one of my articles in hopes of getting it into the Bushcraft Magazine. through an internet search, i see that some yuccas can be propagated in English gardens (Yucca gloriosa, Y. whipplei, etc.). are there any wild yuccas in the UK? can i pay someone to send my a...
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    need help testing a pdf file on my improved website--can you open it?

    since folks from around the world have let me know that the pdf works for them, i've removed the test pdf from my homepage and have converted all of my articles to pdf--finally... but i'll search for that freeware that reduces pdf file size!
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    need help testing a pdf file on my improved website--can you open it?

    i need some folks to go to the bottom of my homepage (www.stoneageskills.com) and click on the new pdf file--the Boiling Stones article (it is updated). i want to make sure everyone can open and read it before i convert all my files to pdf format. currently all my articles are in MS Word, a...