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Craftsmanship => Accoutrements => Topic started by: Puffer on January 22, 2009, 03:42:39 PM

Title: Walking Sticks & Staffs
Post by: Puffer on January 22, 2009, 03:42:39 PM: How many of you have & use Walking Sticks and/or Staffs ??

Heare are mine.

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Puffer
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Post by: Sneakon on January 22, 2009, 04:24:55 PM: Don't use such a thing myself - yet, but I have been saving the main trunk of the Christmas tree for a few years now to make that kind of thing.
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Post by: Voyageur on January 22, 2009, 05:34:33 PM: 8)
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Post by: Puffer on January 22, 2009, 07:32:46 PM: Quote from: "Voyageur"
:) That's a nice collection the second one from the bottom should be good to go with your knobby knees showing from under your kilts. I showed up at a fishing club dinner in my MaClaren colours one year and they had a laugh about the purpose and positioning of my sporran. When the saw the wee dagger in my socks they stopped laughing---never could figure out why? Nice sticks :happy

A "wee knife & my "PUB CRAWLER" works (except with a certain "exmarine polok"

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Puffer
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Post by: Swamp on January 22, 2009, 08:37:35 PM: Puffer, those are sweet! I do use one when I hunt, and it doubles as a shooting stick. Here's a picture of mine. I used it when I went elk hunting.

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Post by: sse on January 22, 2009, 08:46:39 PM: Quote from: "Puffer"
Quote from: "Voyageur"
:) That's a nice collection the second one from the bottom should be good to go with your knobby knees showing from under your kilts. I showed up at a fishing club dinner in my MaClaren colours one year and they had a laugh about the purpose and positioning of my sporran. When the saw the wee dagger in my socks they stopped laughing---never could figure out why? Nice sticks :happy

A "wee knife & my "PUB CRAWLER" works (except with a certain "exmarine polok"

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v301/proffesor/CopyofDSC07309.jpg)

Puffer
Bears a slight resemblance to a shillelagh, laddy...
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Post by: butterchurn on January 23, 2009, 10:15:16 AM: I don't have one but I have two nice natural "sticks" that beg to be made into one.
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Post by: Ironhand on January 23, 2009, 11:31:05 AM: I have several sticks and have made both walking sticks and wading staffs. If you stream fish for trout you have to try a wading staff. Mine has saved me from many a dunking.

I generally use stuff I buy at Home Depot to make my staffs. They are not fancy but they work. Extra long broom handles make good shafts, if you can find a straight one. I foot my staffs with copper plumbing parts and simple cord served to an inset area of the shaft makes a good grip. Add a little spar varnish and you have a solid, cheap walking staff. You can decorate with feathers, beads, wood bunings, carvings or a compass as you see fit. On my wading staffs I woodburned a inch scale so you can use the staff to tell if your fish is a keeper.

Ironhand
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Post by: nessy357 on January 23, 2009, 02:05:00 PM: Nice walking sticks Puffer, you can walk softly when you carry one of them
My oldest son made one from diamond willow, for my daughter-in-law for Christmas.

Cheers Bob.
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Post by: deadfallpaul on January 23, 2009, 03:56:57 PM: Yes, I use one.

Guess my age is showing!
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Post by: Three Hawks on January 23, 2009, 05:14:44 PM: Quote from: "Ironhand"
On my wading staffs I woodburned a inch scale so you can use the staff to tell if your fish is a keeper.
Ironhand

WILD TROUT--EAT AND RELEASE

Thre Hawks
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Post by: Puffer on January 23, 2009, 07:55:57 PM: Quote from: "nessy357"
Nice walking sticks Puffer, you can walk softly when you carry one of them

Cheers Bob.

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Puffer
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Post by: rickevans on July 25, 2010, 06:37:41 PM: I will be needing one soon, as soon as I can start walking on my mending leg. I was looking more for an ash or hickory shovel handle, cut down to size of course with an antler handle...
Title: Walking sticks
Post by: greyhunter on July 25, 2010, 08:16:10 PM: Use a set of shooting sticks, good for stray, rowdy dogs and surly barkeeps. Also good for holding down top strand of electric fence when I'm woodchuck hunting pastures and need to go over the fence. Crawling under a fence could put your nose into a pasture patty. Nice sticks Puffer, won't comment on your knobby knees tho.
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Post by: Kermit on July 26, 2010, 11:08:38 PM: Mine's a hazel staff about 5-1/2 feet long with a crook carved from elm burl. Proper for herding woolies in the hielands. I have a shorter one that's hazel too, but with a handle/crook made from a ram's horn. More like a cane. Sorry--no pics. Never thought to photograph 'em!
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Post by: mike rumping on July 27, 2010, 12:04:27 AM: I've used a walkin' stick for several years, but now my days of walkin' don't exist, as I'm in a power chair now, but I loved cuttin' out locust and cedar from a big ole Honeysuckle Vine growth.
Mike
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Post by: vthompson on July 27, 2010, 04:17:30 AM: I have a nice hickory walking staff that I use everyday. I have used it since I had to have my left leg amputated. I found a nice shooting stick a little while back to use during hunting season also.
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Post by: rickevans on July 27, 2010, 10:30:27 AM: I started using a cane/walking stick a while back while working in Michigan. My little Brittany spaniel Ellie, although blind, still loved to go for a walk twice a day. I started carrying a cane to fend off other dogs, mostly little yappers, that would torment Ellie as we walked. I just liked the cadence that a walking stick would lend to the walk. Also was helpful when encountering roving "youths" up to no good. (Side note, we finallyhad to put Ellie down a couple weeks back. A heartbreaker indeed.)

So, I am looking for some other examples to use once I can start walking on the leg again. As I said to Puffer in a PM, I'd like a blackthorne cane, but expense and buying a pig-in-a-poke are hinderances.

Anyone want to make a cane sized walking stick for me that follows that format (rootball on the top) out of maple, osage, hickory, white oak, ash or....???

Rick (Bionic Gimping Dude)
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Post by: mike rumping on July 27, 2010, 03:19:31 PM: http://cgi.ebay.com/Cold-Steel-Irish-Bl ... 1834767747 (http://cgi.ebay.com/Cold-Steel-Irish-Blackthorn-Walking-Stick-37-91PBS-NEW_W0QQitemZ370391587560QQcategoryZ23809QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m263QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DSIC%26its%3DI%252BC%26itu%3DUCI%252BIA%252BUA%252BFICS%252BUFI%252BDDSIC%26otn%3D20%26pmod%3D230498794995%26ps%3D63%26clkid3D6821453021834767747)

Here's a cold steel one (above)
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Post by: mike rumping on July 27, 2010, 04:10:05 PM: Hey Rick, check out this site before they're all gone!!
http://www.shop.com/Blackthorn+Walking+ ... 2-p+.xhtml (http://www.shop.com/Blackthorn+Walking+Stick-33542672-p+.xhtml)
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Post by: rickevans on July 27, 2010, 05:46:00 PM: Thanks Mike...I will check them out.
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Post by: SAWMA on July 29, 2010, 08:56:08 AM: Here in the Ozarks, right now if you take a woods walk you need one to clear the spider webs. Pine is light, clear the bark, and soak it up with linseed oil. It will stay nice and solid for many years. :-)