Walking sticks

[Frodo]

I make walking sticks

does anyone else?

 

[chuck123wapati]

I've made a few for myself and family. I use aspen its nice and light. I really should make more to sell as i am right on the continental divide trail. Dozens of crazy folks walk through every year on their quests. lol walking sticks and sandals is what i should be making.

[Frodo]

Do you have vines in your area?

Around here they go bonkers if the stick has vine marks

[Frodo]

Try this on your next stick

Use your leather saddle tan antique dye on the stick

Coat a small rag with usmc black dye let the rag dry out for  24 hours and the saddle tan fry also

after 24, rub the stick with the dried rag

the residue will come off on the stick. Any improfection , gaps, holes will be highlighted

rub ittill you get the effect you want 

coat with a wood floor arcrylic

 

 

 

[chuck123wapati]

i will have to check that out sounds like a nice finish i usually just use boiled linseed oil but it makes the wood a yellowish brown color, i would like a different look..

 We don't have vines, we have sage brush lol

[Bert03241]

I've made a couple just for me

[Handstitched]

On 3/30/2023 at 10:47 AM, Frodo said:

I make walking sticks

does anyone else?

I've never thought about making walking sticks, never crossed my mind.  . I have seen them hand made at various craft markets , shows etc. but those look great.  Just wondering  if a  tooled / carved embellishment  would go nice with those. 

Not sure what type of wood is suitable here in Oz.

On 3/30/2023 at 8:39 PM, chuck123wapati said:

I use aspen its nice and light.

Is Aspen a hard wood? 

HS

[chuck123wapati]

3 hours ago, Handstitched said:

I've never thought about making walking sticks, never crossed my mind.  . I have seen them hand made at various craft markets , shows etc. but those look great.  Just wondering  if a  tooled / carved embellishment  would go nice with those. 

Not sure what type of wood is suitable here in Oz.

Is Aspen a hard wood? 

HS

I don't think it is , its very light and flexible though when seasoned, so they don't break easily they bend a bit.  when i was a kid i would climb the young trees until they bent over and let me back off on the ground don't know why i thought it was so much fun but it was to me lol. when they clear cut the pine then the quakies grow back in so thick that the forest service has to thin them out, they leave big piles of the saplings so i get a few. 

[Gosut]

On 3/29/2023 at 10:47 PM, Frodo said:

I make walking sticks

does anyone else?

 

Have made a grand total of two. One was more of a quarterstaff than a walking stick and broke. The other, in my teens, was closer to a small fence post. These days I prefer an eye hoe handle. These are 54" / 1.37m long and maybe 1.25": / 3.175 cm in diameter. I put a rubber non-slip chair leg cover on my latest, to protect the end.

[Frodo]

Gosut 

try this

 Cut the chosen stick  in the morning when the bark is wet from the doo.  use a draw knife or a sharp blade. To strip the bark off

strip it hap hazardly,  leave sections not striped,  their are 3 or 4 layers of bark on a tree.  Try and uncover all 3. In a random pattern,  really  just strip the bark off and be lazy while doing so and do not pay attention to detail

use a course sand paper to smooth the stick,   while the stick is still wet

wead plastic gloves and apply stain like you are jacking the stick off, rub it in up and down, up and down. Repeat, repeat

do you have any cracks?  Use a syringe fill the crack with a black dye

rub the stick with a beeswax  then buff the snot out of it

 

 

 

 

[Bert03241]

9 hours ago, Gosut said:

Have made a grand total of two. One was more of a quarterstaff than a walking stick and broke. The other, in my teens, was closer to a small fence post. These days I prefer an eye hoe handle. These are 54" / 1.37m long and maybe 1.25": / 3.175 cm in diameter. I put a rubber non-slip chair leg cover on my latest, to protect the end.

 

[Burkhardt]

6 hours ago, Frodo said:

apply stain like you are jacking the stick off, rub it in up and down, up and down. Repeat, repeat

Man you have some hysterical instructions. 

[Frodo]

I love humor and laughter, It makes my soul smile

[Handstitched]

16 hours ago, Frodo said:

wead plastic gloves and apply stain like you are jacking the stick off, rub it in up and down, up and down. Repeat, repeat

I need a cigarette ....I don't even smoke   

HS

[chuck123wapati]

21 hours ago, Frodo said:

 

wead plastic gloves and apply stain like you are jacking the stick off, rub it in up and down, up and down. Repeat, repeat

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so that's how you make hardwood walking sticks LOL.

Do they shrink in cold weather ?

[Handstitched]

14 hours ago, chuck123wapati said:

so that's how you make hardwood walking sticks LOL.

Mix one of those blue pills in the stain, the stick will last for ever . 

Thats just  silly .  Sorry Frodo .  

HS 

[Frodo]

14 hours ago, Handstitched said:

Mix one of those blue pills in the stain, the stick will last for ever . 

Thats just  silly .  Sorry Frodo .  

HS 

Party pooper!! Lol

[Handstitched]

3 hours ago, Frodo said:

Party pooper!! Lol

My teenage mind went a bit silly there for a moment, .......and so did chucks it seems   LOL   

HS 

[Frodo]

5 hours ago, Handstitched said:

My teenage mind went a bit silly there for a moment, .......and so did chucks it seems   LOL   

HS 

My mind and fashion. Is stuck in year 1976

 

[chuck123wapati]

2 hours ago, Frodo said:

My mind and fashion. Is stuck in year 1976

 

On 4/21/2023 at 4:10 AM, Handstitched said:

Mix one of those blue pills in the stain, the stick will last for ever . 

Thats just  silly .  Sorry Frodo .  

HS 

I must still be pretty sharp, my wife says i have the mind of an 18 year old. 

Cmon guys there's nothing silly about those blue pills. I take a half of one in the morning when I'm out hunting. They make it so much easier to find in the cold weather and also keeps me from peeing on my boots.

Now grow up and get back on topic,  hardwood walking stick jokes LOL. 

[Handstitched]

36 minutes ago, chuck123wapati said:

They make it so much easier to find in the cold weather and also keeps me from peeing on my boots.

F***k me !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nearly spat my bourbon all over the screen 

OK OK ...now lets get back on topic...if we can !! 

HS

[Frodo]

That reminds me,  I was in the mountains driving from vail to Colorado Springs 

on a long flat highway with no traffic. I had insulated overalls, thermals, sweat pants and jeans on. and I stopped to take a leak

Damn Trooper pulls up and says he can get me for indecent exposure

I grinned at him and said my D—— is to short to make it out of all these layers

so it was never exposed, wanna see it?

he said get the hell out of here!!!!

[Handstitched]

18 hours ago, Frodo said:

Damn Trooper pulls up and says he can get me for indecent exposure

This thread has gone from sticks to 'd...ks'  , and heres me trying to get it back on topic, fat chance....pardon the pun   

My gut hides everything . ' Nothing to see here'  

HS 

[Frodo]

24” AAD- Attitude Adjustment Device

 

[Handstitched]

On 4/23/2023 at 8:06 PM, Frodo said:

24” AAD- Attitude Adjustment Device

Well done friend,  back on topic 

That could be used on those that  don't pay their accounts on time. 

Do walking sticks need to' flex' a little, or not  ?  In the last month, we've had some wild weather, and a lot of branches and debris   have fallen down . And after reading your thread, I have thought about walking sticks. Normally we cut the branches  up for fire wood , or  just put them in a pile  and set fire to them (we can do that now)  . But perhaps I could re-use the wood for something else. Just a thought. 

HS