Your getting smoke and char so your very close, If you carve down your spindle, recut that notch you may well get an ember!!! keep us posted.
I ... Words fail me. I'll get back to you on this by February, 2019. Good luck on that fire. If all else fails, remember the ferro.
I just chop or cut them straight. Youll go batty trying to find a straight one. If you were only closer id help you. Come to the bushcraft class in October. Itll be taught there by james gibson a true master.
This pic might be called "Cutting, or the lack thereof." I picked up this box of dry deadfall in my suburbia yard with no need to cut anything, shown with my Emberlit for size comparison. More than enough to cook a meal and a pot of tea or coffee. People who don't know us, or understand what we are assume we cut an entire old growth forest to cook a Ramen.
a couple from past adventures 100% fatwood fire (Suck It Bl***Forums EcoN****!) pouring WET COAST RAIN fire throwing a glow! hobo camp someone stalking me and farking with me by throwing an effigy on my fire at the cabin..... cabin stove hobo camp fire with a hunting buddy the fire from the infamous "Turkey Trots" sh**ty weekend random weekend firewood transport First Nations healing place
Learned a fun fact over the weekend before last. Doritos are not only tasty snacks, but if you have a lighter they burn quite well