Ongoing Shepherds crook project!

[pibbleb]

I've not been able to finish this project yet, due to time, but I'd thought I'd post a few pictures anyway!

I'm making a shepherds crook, it's for show just in case you note the sheep would have to have a seriously thin neck for it to work!

The crook is made from 1/2 inch round bar (steel) which I made when I had a few spare minutes on a blacksmithing course I did last year.

The staff itself is made from birch. I'm like the natural texture and shape of the wood so I'm hoping to keep that but I'm on carving a sort of petal shape in to the top of the staff which open in to the crook.

I'm intending to finish it off with a rub down and then a bee wax mix that British Red gave me a while ago.

As I say it's far from finished but time permitting I'm hopeing I'll get it done soon

Pib

 

[climberslacker]

that looks really,really heavy! but the crook itself is beutiful, and its a preoject i would never think of doing!

 

[John Fenna]

Surely that is a leg hook not a neck hook?

 

[pibbleb]

Actually it's not as heavy as you'd think, but for sure you'd not want to be humping it around a field trying to catch your lamb chop supper!

Leg hook? Or a scrawny sheep! As I say it's to look at rather than to use. I had to make do with some scrap steel I found lying around so by the time I'd twisted it and put the spiral in the there was no chance of getting a decent sized hook in as well.

Pib

 

[fishfish]

you know thatd be fab for blackberrying!