How To Use Hand Drill Socket

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.