Bowdrill:Sassafras Bark Hearth

You can see I've taken bark off of it before to use as a hand hold for a bow drill. Now, when I was at the Hardwoodsman's Meet I saw something that I had never seen before and that was a dude by the name of Flatlander88 on the forums, a real cool guy, real down to earth and lots of skill, he was using cottonwood bark as a hearth for a bow drill. So I figured if he can use cottonwood bark for a hearth I might be able to use sassafras bark as a hearth so that's where the inspiration for this came from. Alright so got my sets all worked up this is uh these are two pieces of that sassafras bark this is the the widest I could get it doesn't come very big like the cottonwood bark does so and I made a spindle out of basswood because this the both are very soft so that's the end of the spindle compared to that should be all right I made it small on purpose. I think this might work It was just too easy to drill right through it, and that's what happened. Right through. Where did my spindle go? Yup. Haha. Wow, that's pretty cool. That is a new one for me. Just lit his tail on fire. Ah, that stinks real bad, bud. Anyway, so as you can see, sassafras, bark, hearth, with a basswood spindle. Bam.