Survival
Fire

• Fire Pistons (firepistons.com) - A comprehensive overview of this fire-making method. 
  "We are the worlds leading source of traditional fire pistons". Fire pistons are available through this website.

• Fire Piston - Another site about this surprising method of making fire.

• The Amazing Fire-Piston - Another fire piston page, with photos and movies of fire pistons in action!

• Firecrafters - "Fire by Friction for the Rank of Firecrafter"

• Hollowtop Outdoor School - Purchase Fire Pistons online.

• The Bow and Drill Fire - Wilderness Rythms

• Kid's Korner - How to Make a Pump Drill 

• Fire-By-Friction: Materials of the San Francisco Bay Region (Primitive Ways website)

• Muzzle Blasts Online - bowdrill explanation

• Aussie Fire Bow

• Another page about Aussie bow drill

• Rob Cockerham - "Incredible Stuff I Made" - Rob tries his hand at making fire without matches without any knowledge or prior experience. It takes him 5 days, but he does get fire. Very entertaining.

• Burning properties of wood

• Kid's Korner - How to Make a Pump Drill

• Tinder Fungus:

  • http://www.capnfishy.co.uk/resources/amadou1.htm

  • http://www.svims.ca/ff0295.pdf

• Solar firemaking - John Fakan

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