Not quite fire...

[Grimnir]

But I have managed to make an ember with a bowdrill. Just couldn't get it to catch in the dried grass I was using for tinder. Maybe I should've used cotton wool but I didn't expect to get an ember it's the first time it's ever got that far!

 

[Ogri the trog]

Nice one Grimnir,
Creating an ember and blowing that ember into a flame are two seperate skills - so take heart that you're half way to creating fire

It won't be too long now at a guess.

ATB

Ogri the trog

 

[leon-b]

well done for getting an ember but like ogri the trog said getting an ember and blowing it into a flame are two different skills
all i can say i try again and again untill you get it
well done though

 

[Graham_S]

you could try practicing getting an ember to flame with alternate means.
after all getting the ember is the hard bit. use flint/steel/charcloth to create an ember (it's quicker to do) and try getting that to flame.
practice makes perfect ater all.

 

[Grimnir]

I'm amazed I got this far

Thanks go to everyone who's put up tutorials on here

 

[Grimnir]

Yeeaaahhhhh!!!

I made it Only burned a bit of tinder - stuck with the dried grass btw - but made a new bow for an egyptian style as on THIS SITE which I found after a search on... BCUK :You_Rock_

 

[Ogri the trog]

Told you so,

Well done Buddy

Ogri the trog

 

[Grimnir]

 

[davef]

Nice One
Well Done :You_Rock_

Right where are the sos and strange looking bit of chicken......

 

[Goose]

I had the same problem, well chuffed I got an ember then failed to get a flame
I sorted it the way that ha sbeen suggested by using a charcloth or ciggarette ember a few times so when you get your bowdrill ember it is not wasted.
Well done BTW! It looks like you have got it now!

 

[rich59]

I did a lot of practicing of coal to flame by lighting bits of char cloth from a candle flame.

I can now get flame from mostly damp tinder, as long as I can get some of it to crumble into small particles.