bow drill question-cherry wood

[barbourdurham]

tried cherry wood for friction fire lighting today. it produced a fibreous pile of very hot dust with lots of thick smoke, within just a few seconds. at first i thought wow that was easy but the dust in the will not coalesce? i looked at the collected dust pile closely and it looked quite fibreous, not like the super fine dust that ive got with pine or sycamore before. also, although it smokes furiously the dust will not remain hot for very long?

anyone got any ideas as to what im doing wrong?...

 

[nephilim]

Is the wood dry? Also what may be worth doing is feathering the wood first to which gives you good tinder, and release it's oils and help it combust.

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[barbourdurham]

the drill and hearth are from the same branch and bone dry....