• Prepare your tinder bundle and set aside.


  • Gently twist your hand drill into your hearth
    board to make the spot where you will drill.


  • Cut out a V notch out of the edge of your
    hearth board to give a place for your coal to
    form.


  • Set up your Cedar or Basswood hearth board
    with a large leaf or piece of bark under the V
    notch for your coal to form on.


  • Temporarily remove your piston rod and
    replace it with it with your arrow shaft, or
    other suitable shaft.  Place a Mullein plug (2
    1/2 inch piece) into the hole on the opposite
    end of the barrel.  Do with with either your
    Drill Piston or your Hand Drill Socket.  


  • Set it vertically into the starter hole on your
    hearth board vertically.


  • Hold the hearth board with your knee or foot
    and start slowly twirling the shaft downward
    with light pressure until heat and a sawdust
    pile starts to form.
  • Then apply more downward
    pressure while rapidly twirling
    the shaft between your hands as a
    larger pile of chard sawdust
    builds and a coal forms.
  • Transfer your coal to the tinder bundle
    and lightly blow with your back to the
    wind or breeze and the tinder bundle
    held up in front of your forehead so
    you have to blow up into the bundle.
  • As the smoke gets thicker,
    begin increasing how hard you
    are blowing. Gently tighten
    the tinder bundle around your
    coal as you are doing this and
    keep going until it ignites.