Making a socket into my knife handle

Flix, a friend made it for me. The raw PTFE materials are available here:
http://www.mcmaster.com/

It is 1.5 inches in diameter, about .75 inches thick and weighs, with attached lanyard, 1.6 ounces. I imagine that it was cut from a rod of the material and then the divot and lanyard holes were drilled.

It has been on my desk for so long, I had to think about where it had gone, so I could measure it. I had taken it for a brief spin. Very slick! :D
 
Any local plastic dealer/wharehouse will have it.
Also UHMW would work, same theory, reduce friction, increase downward force.
I was thinking it would be great to inlay a piece of the stuff into a knife handle.

Also, I was thinking of away to turbo-charge the process of bow and drill.

What if you wrapped paracord around the drill, and pulled it like starting a lawnmower?
Wouldn't that get the heat to start to build up, then attach the bow and start "drilling"?
 
SkunkWerX said:
Also, I was thinking of away to turbo-charge the process of bow and drill.

What if you wrapped paracord around the drill, and pulled it like starting a lawnmower?
Wouldn't that get the heat to start to build up, then attach the bow and start "drilling"?
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What you're describing, in a way, is the Egyptian bow drill. Instead of one wrap of the cord around the drill, you take several. The advantage of this is that it reduces string slippage on the drill, the single biggest reason for string breakage. Also, reducing string slippage increases your chances for obtaining a coal.

Doc
 
Also, I was thinking of away to turbo-charge the process of bow and drill.

What if you wrapped paracord around the drill, and pulled it like starting a lawnmower?
Wouldn't that get the heat to start to build up, then attach the bow and start "drilling"?
Click to expand...

in my experience, fairly slow but steady speed at the begenning is preferable, to build up enough "powder" that you can then "ignite" with a few fast and hard strokes. too fast and hard in the beginning produces course black powder, wich dosent ignight or hold the coal as well (seems like the fuel is already burned up) as far as switching from one drilling method to another, its likley that if you have a good amount of heat there from the first techneque, it will cool off whale your switching.

if your worried about string breakage, use the "natural cordage" technique and point one end of the bow down, so that the string dosent rub against itself on the spindle, thats the main cause of string breaking in my experience, but if your using paracoard you shouldent have a problume.
 
P.S. I make my string VERRY tight when I'm drilling if I'm using man made cord, I've never had a slippage problume, you need to have fairly stiff bow for that too.
 
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