This here’s a piece of poplar. Gonna try and make a fire bow today.

Tried last night using a pine drill. No luck. Going for hardwood today

So...off to the rainy forest for:
1 hardwood drill

@Deleted User I would try moving the hole right next to the side of the board, to scrape the ember pile that long of a distance will likely be challenging, here's a quick diagram, keep us updated!

Thanks. You think a hardwood drill will be better?

Gonna use a sapling for the bow

Need a socket too

quick google search: Your first step is to find the best wood for your spindle and your fireboard. Generally, you should make these two parts of your set from the same type of wood (if for some reason this is not possible, make sure that the spindle is a harder wood than the fireboard). Good choices for your spindle and fireboard are:
Red Elm (Slippery Elm)
Cedar - one of the best choices
Basswood
Walnut
Blue Beech
Cottonwood
Yucca - one of the best choices
Cypress
Tamarack
For your thunderhead you'll want to use a pine or hemlock knot. The trick is to get a piece of wood from the fir family that has a lot of resin that will help lubricate the thunderhead.

Isn’t poplar good too?

For fireboard I mean

yep found this: "The base board should be cut from a soft wood. Poplar/cottonwoods and Saguaro ribs are two examples"

@Brandon Ironside- ND okay we switched to a cedar drill (spindle) on a poplar board and we have some good smoke going

@Deleted User Great, obviously for this methods tinder is going to be huge, what you using?

Well since everything around here is soaked right now I’m going with dryer lint

I wish I had a cedar fireboard

Videos, if you can

Pls

So far I just have a video of the smoke

@Deleted User How did round two go for the wool blanket?

Doing it tonight. 19 degrees predicted

Good deal!

New knife benchmade buschcrafter!

very sturdy full tang knife, off to touch up the edge!

Bad ass. Heavy enough to work wood?

Two blankets

Tent shell on top

@Deleted User yes! that's why I got this one, thick spine, full tang, should perfect for wood splitting and general buschcrafting duties!

looks like a good setup, let us know how it turns out!

Nice. I was wanting after a heavier blade when I was trying to cut out notches for that fireboard last week.

Tonight, wearing alpaca socks, wool socks over them, jeans, undershirt, flannel, Irish sweater, and a beanie. Not wearing thermals

@Deleted User are you a popsicle?😆 It's 29 here in downtown Louisville. I know it was freezing for you last night.

@RevStench 18 degrees! Two wool blankets with tent laid over top worked great. Only my right hip was cold for some reason, but I wasn't even wearing thermals underneath.

You're a madman. That's cool that you were able to handle that temp. My blankets are in the mail.

I think you’ll love em. Obviously an isomat is key

I have a mat that works pretty well. We're going camping the first weekend of December. So I'm trying to get cold weather gear.

This will be my first cold weather camping trip

What’s the temp lol in December in your neck of the woods?

Like*

Well usually it's not that bad, but it's like 30 this morning, but next week it'll be in the low 60s. The weather is crazy here because were in a valley near the Ohio river. In December we've had freezing snowy ones and we've had them where it's like fall temperatures.

Same here, frankly, but it gets a little colder