Walking Sticks & Staffs

[mike rumping]

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

[vthompson]

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.

[rickevans]

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)

[mike rumping]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Cold-Steel-Irish-Bl ... 1834767747  

Here's a cold steel one (above)

[mike rumping]

Hey Rick, check out this site before they're all gone!!
http://www.shop.com/Blackthorn+Walking+ ... 2-p+.xhtml

[rickevans]

Thanks Mike...I will check them out.

[SAWMA]

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. :-)