Fidding Around With A Stick

[troy]

Finished just in time for xmas but to late to deliver (2 feet of snow, cold outside, warm in).

This is another of my walking staff projects involving only 36 strands braiding in a series of celtic knots, a thistle and the word 'scotland' (could be any word but its short, sweet and smack bang in the area I'm in).

Previous projects have been on broom sticks but did have a problem with attaching the ends secure enough so that they did not ride up or down. This time I have used a nice piece of chestnut and used various knots to secure the bottom by first wrapping around the stick a few of the fid work loose ends, tightening with tape and using the remainder of the string for contionious knot.

On later sticks I plan to incorporate a scew top for camera's but for now I just again wrapped some of the fid around the top, taped and placed a 4 strand heel on top ensuring that to leave a gap on the top for the compass. The strap I made from a knot found in ashley (523 and 528).

The para cord I used is similar to that used for whips except this is only 3 to 3.2mm wide with 7 strand inner which can be taken out (as I did for the fid work) or left in (as I did for the strap). I get it from here - http://www.fivestarcord.co.uk/index.php.Its the best para cord I've managed to find over here in the UK.

[SilverBear]

Beautiful work. What is the cord in the first pic? It looks like Venetian blind cord or lacrosse side wall cord.

[troy]

its called micro paracord of about 2mm width, five star do it. and cheers for the comment, you must of dug deep to find this thread.

Edited March 23, 2014 by troy

[SilverBear]

I like to look at the whole forum for interesting posts when I first start. Doing my research stops me from asking questions that have been answered a thousand times already. And braiding and lacing is what brought me here.