Just a bit curious about what people use for tinder nests when out and about with a bowdrill. I tend to have a bit of jute string about my person in case there's now suitable grasses. How about you?
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Pretty much anything that's dry and fuzzy... dead leaves, plant down, pine needles anything that'll work 
I generally carry enough on me in a snappy bag then try to replace it as I go along for the next time.
ya. little zippy bag that you tweak and top up as you find stuff is my method for fire material. shavings from whittling. scraps of birchbark. bit of mugwort, and the vastly important charcloth. i also keep a little zippy bag of non-natural fire making material such as shreaded bike innertube and some cotton wool, for those times when you are too cold/wet/tired etc, but really need a fire. haven't had to use them yet, but.... just in case.
have you seen the bloke avocating using nose grease to lubricate your spindle?
wouldn't dream of using anything else!!!!!
how about bum grease - if there is such a thing then I imagine it has a higher resistance to friction
I usually pile a heap of fennel pith on the ember. Fennel is a common weed around my area. I learned this trick from Prometheus.
I thought Prometheus carried his stolen fire in a fennel stalk, I didn't know one could use it as tinder.
Right, someone got the story mixed up. Fennel pith makes excellent tinder. Here is another ancient mixup: Hermes staff was originally a fire drill stick, which was made of bay.
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