Choose a straight hazel stick, ten to twelve centimetres long and thick enough to provide a good grip.
To make the bowl blank, split the length of wood in half along its length.
Set a fire mixed with suitable rocks on a platform of poles laid over your fire pit.
Light travels almost instantly, but sound takes about three seconds to travel one kilometre.
Identify your starting point and your destination on the map.
Wrap the working end of the line around the tree or anchor point.
Buff your chosen tinder material between your hands, in the same way you would scrub socks by hand, to expose its finer fibres and help it catch a spark more easily.
As you tend your fire, remember that the type and size of wood affects how hot and quickly it burns, and that wood left in the round burns slower and hotter than split wood.
Position your length of roundwood on a wood block so the cut will open up under gravity as you saw.
Hold the workpiece in your non dominant hand and the knife in your dominant hand in a fist grip.