Here’s the hearth. Two fairly straight sticks bound together with natural cordage from a couple local plants. I had to carve into one stick just a little to get them to lay together. I also made a small notch on the back sides of both pieces to hold the cordage. You can see in the upper left a regular hearth board.
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Using an old ankle bone as a bearing block I made a few embers. In fact out of 8 (you can get two per hole), I only had two that didn’t result in embers. And that’s because I got impatient and quit bowing to soon. That awesome knife is from Helm Forge.
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Here’s a closeup of an ember although it doesn’t look very red in the pic.
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With that ember I lit a piece of natural cordage to use as an ember, or coal, extender. While that slowly burned down I went and grabbed some grass for tinder. Obviously this isn’t the preferred method, you should have your tinder ready before you get your ember. On this occasion, I was just screwing around and decided to go ahead and blow one to flame. So I needed tinder. With the extender burning, I had that time. In fact a 4 inch piece of cordage burned probably 10 minutes.
Here it is stuck in a notch to keep it off the ground while I was away.
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Just a fun way to kill a little time.