I've been thinking about sticks for walking with. The simplest is something picked up on the trail up to the £100+++ carbon fibre, UL trekking pole. Has anyone tried to make a folding, wooden stick before?
I started this thread because the thread on what was or oil to use on a newly made stick made me remember my thought.
My reasoning is that I like wood and I like the folding modern stick because I don't always use the stick. In my walking I find there's times you need the stick(s) and times you don't. Indeed I've learnt the hard way they're an encumbrance that's potentially dangerous on some types of terrain (I once got two poles stuck in a rocky crevice and they catapulted me in a summersault with pike and twist until I landed rather uncomfortably but in a stylish manner on my feet). I'd like the ability to use a stout stick but able to fold it up to carry it, perhaps even small enough to stash in my sack.
Has anyone tried making such a stick? Has anyone thought about it before? I am a little weird in my ideas so it's possible it's only me with this thought. If not any ideas how to create the joins or folds? Modern sticks slide into each section or folds with a flexible joint. The latter might be an idea somehow. Or simply make it come apart and join with male and female end that lock into each other with a peg perhaps. Or is that too complex and prone to fail?
I started this thread because the thread on what was or oil to use on a newly made stick made me remember my thought.
My reasoning is that I like wood and I like the folding modern stick because I don't always use the stick. In my walking I find there's times you need the stick(s) and times you don't. Indeed I've learnt the hard way they're an encumbrance that's potentially dangerous on some types of terrain (I once got two poles stuck in a rocky crevice and they catapulted me in a summersault with pike and twist until I landed rather uncomfortably but in a stylish manner on my feet). I'd like the ability to use a stout stick but able to fold it up to carry it, perhaps even small enough to stash in my sack.
Has anyone tried making such a stick? Has anyone thought about it before? I am a little weird in my ideas so it's possible it's only me with this thought. If not any ideas how to create the joins or folds? Modern sticks slide into each section or folds with a flexible joint. The latter might be an idea somehow. Or simply make it come apart and join with male and female end that lock into each other with a peg perhaps. Or is that too complex and prone to fail?
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