Post by DOC-CANADA on Apr 8, 2014 16:06:24 GMT
Back in 1996 my daughter copied a bunch of posts of the old Primitive Skills Group for me. One of the posts was an article by Barry Keegan called 'Fast Survival Bow Drill Strings'. It was concerned with using different materials such as tree bark and roots as emergency bow strings.
More recently, in the now-defunct Wilderness Way magazine, Volume 4, Issue 2, the same article was presented with even greater detail. I filed it away for some future time to experiment with it. That future time was January 2012. I posted about this on Blade Forums and I thought I would post it here because maybe some here never seen it. The original post can be seen HERE. The short version can be seen in the following clip. Forgive my nasely voice - winter cold.