Walking sticks, canes etc. Lets see yours!

[duke]

Made these 22 years ago, the walking stick has been well used. The cane is primarily for indoor use. The stick is Maple and the cane is Birch.

 

[duke]

And we have one fing cat that uses door casings as a scratching post.

 

[Windows]

And we have one fing cat that uses door casings as a scratching post.

We have similar marks on doors, but from dogs putting their paws up to get a better look through the windows.

 

[duke]

Yes, the door marks are from the dogs.

 

[jimhanna]

My most used stick is something I cobbled together from two. I had a blackthorn stick with a knobbly head (liked the weight and strength but not the head) and a lighter one with a conventional handle. I grafted the conventional handle onto the blackthorn stick by cutting a slot across the top of the stick and a matching tenon on the handle. Two part epoxy and some mahogany dye to camouflage the joint.

 

[Woodbloke]

I did a few of these a long time ago and I recollect that they were a great project for Yr10 students. Every student in the class bought his or her stick to take home and each was modelled on the smaller stick in the pic below:



Made with a hand planed stave in Ash and a Rosewood handle.



The middle stick is made from a hand planed English Walnut stave with a deer antler fitted to the end.

On one of our visits to Japan, a particular temple we wanted to visit was located at the top of a steep, winding hill. Several shops at the bottom of the hill had a woven basket with metre long sticks to aid the climb. There was no charge so all the intrepid visitor was required to do was to pick up a stave, climb the hill to the temple and drop the stick into the basket on the return journey downhill. We subsequently visited another temple where it's 'good luck charm' was a crow with three toes and on one of the many stalls that proliferate these places, a silver bell was being sold (a crow with three toes) that could be affixed to an Oak stave - Rob

 

[duke]

Back in the day I took a year off work to turn our cottage into a home, other than building tools etc., and no shop as the garage was full of belongings tbis is the knife I used to make them.

 

[Phil]

My main walking stick is this piece of what-ever-wood picked up during a hike.
For hiking I used a staff about 1300mm long and 30mm thick. Scraped an area clean and wrote the trail name and sealed it with poly-u.
There are a number of walking sticks somewhere in the garage/house from deceased parents.

 

[duke]

My main walking stick is this piece of what-ever-wood picked up during a hike.
For hiking I used a staff about 1300mm long and 30mm thick. Scraped an area clean and wrote the trail name and sealed it with poly-u.
There are a number of walking sticks somewhere in the garage/house from deceased parents.

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Nice and showing the age well.

 

[rxh]

This cane is made of ash, stained black. The knob and ferrule are brass.