fireboard

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Remember that the drill must be as hard or slightly harder than the fireboard.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sets made from dry softwoods, including aspen, willow, cottonwood, and juniper, are preferred, although a spindle made from a slightly harder wood, combined with a softer fireboard, can also work.

From Time Magazine Archive

Besides proper technique, you have to choose the right wood for the fireboard and spindle.

From Time Magazine Archive

Step One Cut a V-shaped notch in the fireboard, then start a small depression adjacent to it with a rock or knife tip.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is just such a speaking monument of suffering as we want in our parlor, and suits my fireboard most admirably.

From The Grimké Sisters Sarah and Angelina Grimké: the First American Women Advocates of Abolition and Woman's Rights by Birney, Catherine H.