Bow Drill with Pine wood?

[verisharp]

I know many people say not to use pine when making a hand or bow drill due to it's high resin content... but is it still possible to make fire by friction using pine wood?

 

[LittleHairyApe]

HTH:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/813898-Friction-fire-in-coniferous-forest

 

[sicily02]

Yes is possible. I find it more of a pain in the butt though. Just a couple of weeks back a Austrailian Pine was cut down ( that is what the tag said it was lol) at one of the local parks here where I live. After it was cut down I was able to get some of it.
I have a pic of it of one of the pieces.

I used willow for my spindle to make the coal with. I will try a corn cob sometime to lol. I think is it seems to take a lot longer to build the coal, to me anyways. I bet it took me 70 strokes to get it. there are so many way easyer woods to get a coal spun up though.

It is good practice. Give it try.

Bryan

 

[Dave Behrens]

Yes it is possible, just have to play around with it until you get it right.

 

[Codger_64]

There are many different kinds of pine too. Some pine has almost no resins in the wood and is more like soft fir. Also, it helps if you keep the socket in the hearth board roughened if it tends to glaze over as above. A few grains of sand will do it, or scraping with a knife.

 

[VA27]

White pine is pretty good. Better than willow, not as good as cottonwood.

 

[beanbag]

White pine is pretty good. Better than willow, not as good as cottonwood.

+1 on White Pine.

My current drill set uses White Pine for the bow, spindle and hearth-board, and I get coals very quickly.