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Pretty much anywhere in the Ohio/Mississippi/Missouri watershed you can find deadwood cottonwood sticks and, depending in the time of year, either nettle or swamp milkweed for cordage (assuming you don't have paracord shoelaces). Jam two parallel cottonwood sticks between rocks, into the split of an old beaver-felled stump, or use cordage to tie each end together--you don't need to split out a flat fire board or do any of that notching nonsense. Use another short cottonwood stick for your spindle and something green for the bow. If you can find an old bottle cap for the top piece, you're golden. Pound the open end of the cap onto another short stick and put a dent in the middle to hold the top of the spindle. Twirl the spindle in the groove between the two sticks. You can get annoying amounts of smoke in 60 seconds or less. Without a bottle cap you have to improvise the top piece and it might take 90 secs.