What would you like to see covered in a Field Guide to the Hand Drill?

[storm]

i'm starting in on a free guide to the hand drill. since i'm not doing it for myself, but rather for you (or whomever is interested), i want to know...

What topics regarding hand drill would you like covered? i haven't worked out a table of contents yet, but some "chapters" that will be included are:

- preferred woods
- techniques
- fashioning a set with stone age tools
- some anecdotes from my classes
- the role of wood density
- green versus dead wood
- the value of nascent (sucker sprouts) growth
- non-notched embers
- spindle-tip embers
- amount of downward force required to generate embers
- the floating technique
- fungal hearthboards
- tinders and tinder bundles

i will put this on my website and have hard copies availble for mailing. please let me know your thoughts...

 

[Stuart]

Different stances sitting, kneeling etc

How to fit a suitable piece of drill material which is to short to a longer shaft to make it usable.

 

[Alberto Hernandez]

Hello Storm and Stuart
I can hardly wait to see it! I was thinking of posting something similar on hand drill fire making for biginners! But right now I do not have a lot of time because
of work.

Storm I truely believe that you are going to do a great job and like I wrote above I can hardly wait to see it!

Best wishes to you
Alberto

 

[storm]

i'm hoping to make a guide that will fully prepare the beginner and offer a lot to experienced folks...

 

[innocent bystander]

A pdf for download would be cool....hint, hint......