Today I was making a spoon and got a little trigger happy with the knife, so another spoon for the scrap pile. Then I started wondering if it was possiable to drill holes using a bow drill.
I realised that a normal piece of wood would take hours to drill a hole with so I took a piece of coppe pipe, cut it on one edge and flatened it out.
Then I used a Jr.hacksaw to cut a point on the top.
I took an old, warn out drill stick (from a bow drill) and cut a notch long enough to put the piece of copper in with just the point sticking out.
I tied the wood together tightly around the copper so it was nice and tight.
Then I used the bow drill to drill a hole in my failed spoon attempt, it requires little practice and if you can use a bow drill to make fire it should be easy to master. JUst don't press too hard on the copper as it began to bend like it did for me, perhaps steel or even bronze would be alot better. Here's some pictures and I hope for some suggestion for improvement!
(sorry about the poor picture quality!)
I realised that a normal piece of wood would take hours to drill a hole with so I took a piece of coppe pipe, cut it on one edge and flatened it out.
Then I used a Jr.hacksaw to cut a point on the top.
I took an old, warn out drill stick (from a bow drill) and cut a notch long enough to put the piece of copper in with just the point sticking out.
I tied the wood together tightly around the copper so it was nice and tight.
Then I used the bow drill to drill a hole in my failed spoon attempt, it requires little practice and if you can use a bow drill to make fire it should be easy to master. JUst don't press too hard on the copper as it began to bend like it did for me, perhaps steel or even bronze would be alot better. Here's some pictures and I hope for some suggestion for improvement!
(sorry about the poor picture quality!)