welsh1 Posted September 6, 2014 Report Share Posted September 6, 2014 Last year i cut a piece of Hazel that i saw by a hide i was in, and a couple of weeks ago decided to make my first stick,i was going to take the bark off and also straighten the small kink out but after rubbing the stick down to see what it looked like i decided i liked the look of it,i also decide that i wanted to leave the kink and little marks on it and go for a fairly natural look. I put a couple of applications of dainish oil on it to bring the bark out and was pleased with the results. For the end i screwed a shotgun cartridge on to it, i varnished this but it can be unscrewed and replaced at any time. What to stick on the other end,i had various ideas and eventually settled on some antler forked if possible,finding a piece down here is impossible as we have no deer in pembrokeshire,so i appealed in the wanted section.Markws80 was the man who came through for me with a nice bit of forked antler,he was also a real gent refusing payment and posting the antler to me the same day,Mark £10 went in a H4H box the same day,thank you for your generosity. The antler was cleaned just a touch as i wanted it to look natural,and was drilled and a bit of bar fitted and then epoxyed to the stick,i think they were made for each other,the antler curve fits lovely in the palm and the stick is nice to walk with. I know it's not the greatest stick ever made, but i turned out just as i wanted and imagined,here are some pics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnphilip Posted September 6, 2014 Report Share Posted September 6, 2014 Are yer hooked now i love making them in the winter when them long dark nights arrive. Its a lovely pass time. If you can find some blackthorn now thats a prized stick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markws80 Posted September 7, 2014 Report Share Posted September 7, 2014 Looks good glad I could help Thanks for the Donation Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted September 7, 2014 Report Share Posted September 7, 2014 i have 3 or 4 sticks like that...........i use them all the time because i made them not someone else....one of the sticks i had had an antler crook (like a big hook) beaters used to take the pee out of me, but stopped when they got stuck in a bottom of a clay lined ditch and i could get out cause i used the crook as a hook to pull myself out..! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent Posted September 7, 2014 Report Share Posted September 7, 2014 Are yer hooked now i love making them in the winter when them long dark nights arrive. Its a lovely pass time. If you can find some blackthorn now thats a prized stick It can take a nice finish done well and is tough but heavy, my favourite is for Hazel though in a long thumb stick due to its lightness for given strength and the wonderful gold colour of the bark in the finished stick. Blackthorn is great for short sticks and priests and its hard to find a good straight enough long piece of Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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