In this posting I'll be describing the essential process, which add up to four steps, and enables you to create a fire quite easily from two sticks of wood.

Whether you're going camping in the woods with your friends and family, or wishing to begin a bonfire, you will find fewer life skills that happen to be more essential and more useful then having the ability to spark up a fire using two sticks of wood.

The first thing you should do is to locate two sticks, with one preferably being hardwood, and the other softwood, ensuring that both sticks are dead and as dry as much as possible. The sticks should be of a certain size, with the softwood being about 1 foot in length, 1 inch thick and a minimum of 2 inches across, and the hardwood stick needs to be around 1 inch round. This is to make certain it is easy enough for you to grip. The hardwood stick also needs to be shaped to a point.

The next thing we'll want to do is to cut a groove in the centre and down the length of the softwood piece of stick. After accomplishing this, turn the stick over, and repeat the same step on the other side. If you've a knife, perfect, if not, look for a stone, preferably a rough stone like sandstone, and rub it along the piece of softwood with a firm pressure.

Next, we'll have to dig a smallish hole to keep the piece of softwood in its place. Kneel before the softwood stick, with it directly ahead of your knees. Hold the piece of hardwood stick with both of your hands, and quickly, yet with force, rub it up and down the length of the groove. Do that continuously, as after a while it will create heat, and cause a hot ember, which is in the form of a hole, which appears in the middle of the wood.

Lastly, you should apply this ember from the softwood to a tinder. This can be any dry, flammable material, so strips of bark for instance. Blow on this to give it with extra oxygen, and when the flame starts, put the tinder into the foot of the campfire, aiming for the smaller, easier ignitable sticks.