Ok bro, you have asked a lot about this that and the other thing, but what I want to address is all this cordage. I don't care if you are Mykel Hawke using a shoelace or some Southern Rebel (

) that needs to use a yucca plant to make cordage out of, lets get back on track, that friction is a world wide method, and this topic has swayed from it's original content, that being "friction"
Now, as a noob, never having produced a fire from friction, start to finish, I am losing some information in the "FFF" here.
Seems to me, the focus needs to be on the mechanics of friction as opposed to the cordage indigenous to the area you are in. That is what I see lately, cordage talk to dominate the discussion. After all, friction fire CAN be made, for example, with hand drills. fire plough, etc without cordage, right?....
And for what it is worth, is not friction also steel against flint? Velocity in this instance, will produce a spark, correct?I could shear a small segment of that rock at a slower pace, and produce nothing close to a spark.

Just saying, friction had many avenues, and it seems this thread has gotten localized on an area of discussion as opposed to a skill.
