Talk: Make Fire (Hand Drill)

Purpose

This page is for discussion about improving the article and recording decisions.

Open questions

• What are the best low-tech wood pairings by biome/region (and how do we describe them without assuming species knowledge)?
• What minimum “verification” signals are most reliable for beginners?

Proposed improvements

• Add an SVG diagram showing hearth/notch/dust pan and body positioning (added: /diagrams/hand-drill-fire-setup.svg).
• Clarify the “no cutting tool” path by treating “sharp stone edge” as a natural object by default and adding selection/usage guidance in the article.
• Replace cm-only measurements with Level 0-friendly approximations (cm kept in parentheses for modern readers).
• Add a short troubleshooting flowchart/decision tree (implemented as text in the article).

Decisions

• “Sharp stone edge” is treated as a natural-world input by default; optional future improvement is a separate Level 0 article for making a reliable stone flake/scraper when naturally sharp edges are scarce.
• Measurements should be body-first (handspan, thumb thickness, arm-length) with metric in parentheses for modern readers.