Twisted Ash Stick

deeksofdoom

I was so ****ing bored all week with the **** weather that I made a stick for myself.

Started off with a twisted ash stick that I found in a wood a couple of years ago it was in my shed and I didn't know what to do with it. Grom the pics you can see that it had a pretty big bow in it and a lot of ugly looking knots.





The antler I chose was one that i had originally intended on putting on another stick, but after I nearly sliced the hand off myself making it a gave up on it, so the antler was hanging around the utility room doing nothing. Orginally I had hollowed out the antler with the intention of making a dowel from the top of the stick but it wasn't working out for me. So i plugged the hollowed ouy piece with a simelar diameter piece of hazel and drilled a 6mm hole in the new dowel and inserted a 6mm piece of threaded bar, then glued the whole lot together. The antler is a coronet from a shed fallow.



Cut a piece off the top of the stick at an angle to match the antler, then hollowed the top of the stick out to match the dowel and hey presto it all fitted together, sort of.



I think there's a photo limit per post so need to make another post.... to be continued...

deeksofdoom

So where was I.....

After gluing the handle to the stick it was time to file down the excess buffalo horn to match the stick, this is whats called the marriage and it impotant to get a nice smooth join otherwise it looks like ****e...

Before

after


I then went off to straighen the stick, I normally straighten the stick and then attach the handle but i done it backwards this time.

More to follow.......

Crooked...............................................................................straight

deeksofdoom

I also shaved off the knots and bits of branches and the shapped the bottom of the stick to take an alpine spike.




And then glued it all together.

It then needed a bit of a feature so I got the dremel and the files out and started shpping ot a pice for a badge insert.



Now I just need to finish sanding the rough bits off the stick hand rub a few coats of boiled linseed oil on and varnish.

Hope it gives some of you budding stickmakers a few ideas.

Looks sweet now with an old penny from 1968.

garv123

Care to make another post on straightening the stick? Thinking of making a walking/shooting stick out of an antler myself.

deeksofdoom

garv123 wrote: »

Care to make another post on straightening the stick? Thinking of making a walking/shooting stick out of an antler myself.

So here's how I straighten the shanks. Just boiling a pot of water and steaming the shank over it. the next few pics are showing a different stick but the idea is still the same.


After the stick has been steamed its time to give it a bend over the old knee.


Don't bend it too much or it will snap.....

Double Barrel

Nice touch with the penny, well done mixing & matching parts - making it work.

Vegeta

Wow I'm really impressed. I'd love to do something like that for my old man. He does a nice bit of hill walking and something like that would go down a treat.

moby30

That's some nice work there Deeksofdoom. I make a couple of sticks myself but never used a coin. Looks great and will try it out on my next one. Well done.

marlin vs

Very nice, well done.

Steyr243Hunter

What everyone is thinking...I could make one or ask nicely to get one made...

How much we talking here?

Great Work!

deeksofdoom

I don't know how much they're worth, never sold one really, you'ld have to make me an offer. I'ld make one in my spare time which I don't have a lot of, made a few for friends who wanted christmas presents for people but I hate being under pressure to come up with the goods.

kildare.17hmr

Depending on the designe they are between €40 and €65 in mccarthys in prosperous

deeksofdoom

I gave a stick to one of my buddies for a Turkey for next christmas.:D

hunterpajero

class work well done

virminhunter

tastey work deeks fair play, like the old penny remember fleesing fag machines with them in my mispent youth:D

Cass

That's some nice work.

This thread got me thinking so i went looking. Found these buried in the garage. I made these a good while ago, and they by no mean have the finish of deeks, but were fun to make, and passed a few hours in the evenings.







Not too sure of the type if wood used. I think some are Ash, but frankly i just picked up what i thought was good or i could work with. Done these a few years ago out of "interest" to see if i could, and haven't done anything since.

Might give it a lash again some time i find a nice piece. I especially like the penny. Good touch, and really finished it off well.

transit260

you ever sell any?Im a bit of a stick fanatic,I dont go far without mine which makes me look a bit odd in tescos at the dairy counter,lol.

Cass

Me?


No. I done it as a time killer, but mine are not as tasty. I just thought the twisted stick was cool and odd in even measures.


Apologies if it was not directed at me.

transit260

pity,theyre nicely done.keep up the good work.

deeksofdoom

Nice sticks Ezridax, there just as good as a mine, its hard to get a stick with a nice twist on them like those ones

PUMPINGPLUMBER

Good job,planning on making a steam box for bending the blackthorn i have seasoning,thinking ofdoing it with a wallpaper strippers and some 4' or 6' pvc pipe.Has anybody made this type before