MnSport.. you lost me at the 'coagulate' picture. When your spinning the bow/stick into the hole, is that board on top of the one you put the dust on? Your notch is lined up to the dust pile underneath on the bottom board?
WW.
"Build" or "grow" might be a better term than "coagulate" WW.
Letting the coal get bigger so that it is less likely to go out when ya move it to the nest. The dust is a part of the process of "burning in" the divot, & helps to add to the bulk of the coal pile when you are actually trying to get a coal. So rather than waste it, I transfer it to the base board, knife blade, bark, etc. that I am gong to form the coal on, right under the notch I make.
@MnSportsman: Well, I vote you were successful. Not sure one necessarily needs to have the tinder bundle in hand when getting flame. Ya got fire by friction. Kinda like when airplane pilots say, "Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing." I guess another way of looking at it is you demonstrated success with an injury.
Perhaps you're thinking one should show his skill as repeatable (to minimize the fluke factor). Kinda like those who try to break the land speed record. They have to make two runs within an hour which are averaged together to get an official speed.
It is not my first time... I have done & can do better. I was angry that my hand was giving so much trouble...When things were going so well til right at the end, when it cramped up...
I wasn't happy that I didn't 'blow" it to flame. Obviously, I was close to flame or at flame when I dropped it, but "I" was not satisfied with "my" results. So I will do it again.
Thanks for the "success" vote
Sounds like you're being a little strict with yourself.
'Tain't my call MNS, but if you:
A) Spun up a coal,
B) Popped it into a tinder bundle, and
C) It burst into a flame,
I would think that easily qualifies.
+1
Thank ya both, Beanbag & Matt Chaos for yur votes also!
I will be doing this again, sometime in the next day or two. I want to satisfy myself, & also work on PT of the hand... I'll take pics again & try to show the other methods too.

Then I will be "qualified", with no harm to any.
