Walking stick

[Indoorsout]

Hi all

Well thanks to a friend on a stickmaking forum I got my grubby little mitts on some stickmaking supplies and inbetween carving woodspirits I've been working on the topper. Well today my forstner bit arrived and I couldn't resist trying it out, which resulted in this...

My first peg-and-socket joint went really well, I managed to produce a joint with no gaps which surprised me It was a whole lot easier than I expected it to be and I managed to judge the depth of the cut on the peg just about perfectly. One thing I did do was to try out the forstner bit on an old bit of branch first. Well, since I had such a perfect hole in this branch I cut a small section of it off and used the hole as a template for marking out the peg. Worked well I just have to put the ferrule on the bottom to finish it off now.

ps: Oh, and the white band is a bone spacer

 

[gsfgaz]

Nice M8 ................

 

[Barn Owl]

Nice one,always like to see a good stick.

 

[brancho]

nice job looks well made and stylish.

 

[Neumo]

Thanks for intoducing me to a forstner bit, which will come in handy for a project I want to do.

 

[Jay.in.the.woods]

Hi, I love the work you've been doing. still waiting on my flexcuts hope in the future i'm turning out work as good as yours. Just ordered the book you recommended me to get.

 

[mentalnurse]

very nice mate

 

[Singeblister]

very nice that , have been getting into stick making myself recently , whats the forum you go on for stick making ?

 

[Indoorsout]

It's Keiths forum, here - http://thestickman.co.uk/forum/index.php

Follow the instructions on how to join and away you go He's quite militant in the use of the traditional peg and socket fixing for handles instead of the modern threaded metal bar but does give very good instructions on how to do them which I found quite easy. It also saves you the cost of the bar

Have a look at his main site here, http://thestickman.co.uk , lots of stickmaking supplies, kits and the like as well as some of his own sticks available.

 

[Singeblister]

It's Keiths forum, here - http://thestickman.co.uk/forum/index.php

Follow the instructions on how to join and away you go He's quite militant in the use of the traditional peg and socket fixing for handles instead of the modern threaded metal bar but does give very good instructions on how to do them which I found quite easy. It also saves you the cost of the bar

Have a look at his main site here, http://thestickman.co.uk , lots of stickmaking supplies, kits and the like as well as some of his own sticks available.

I tried to join the forum but had problems it said my emails were different but they were not all very wierd stuff , I tried to email the admin using the link and that bounced back , so dont really know what to do about it now