Antlers

[adbirdy 14]

If anyone is interested in making some sticks a really good book to get is 'Stick Making A Complete Course' by Andrew Jones and Clive George it shows how to make all types of sticks and explains it really well.

 

Here's a few pics of some I have made

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ade

[tommydeer 2]

  adbirdy said:

If anyone is interested in making some sticks a really good book to get is 'Stick Making A Complete Course' by Andrew Jones and Clive George it shows how to make all types of sticks and explains it really well.

 

Here's a few pics of some I have made

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ade

 

Theyre lovely Ade, i just bought that book...its a bible!

[ArchieHood 3,692]

nice sticks Ade, im lost without mine when im out with the dog

[diggerman 0]

Wonder if it would be worth having a stick making section on here.

[Little Butch 16]

What do you guys Coat your Sticks with?

Butch

[adbirdy 14]

I usually just use yacht varnish, the first coat is 50:50 with white spirit then another 2 coats of varnish. Lightly rubbed down in between with wire wool, but that can make the finish too shiny for some people's taste.

 

Hope that helps

 

Ade

[patdahat 41]

ever tried to straighten , or take a bend out of a stick what the method work's best"????

[adbirdy 14]

The traditional way is to use steam to heat the stick, but a good way if you don't want to go down that route is a heat gun (you know the type used to burn off paint). Don't put it too close to the stick otherwise you will scorch it!! Heat the stick until it's too hot to touch and then bend it carefully over your knee, you should find that the stick will bend quite easily but go carefully so you don't overdo it!!

Just a note you will never take a dog-leg bend out of a stick but a gradually bent stick can be straightened using this method.

 

Ade

[patdahat 41]

  adbirdy said:

The traditional way is to use steam to heat the stick, but a good way if you don't want to go down that route is a heat gun (you know the type used to burn off paint). Don't put it too close to the stick otherwise you will scorch it!! Heat the stick until it's too hot to touch and then bend it carefully over your knee, you should find that the stick will bend quite easily but go carefully so you don't overdo it!!

Just a note you will never take a dog-leg bend out of a stick but a gradually bent stick can be straightened using this method.

 

Ade

 

iv used the heat before to straighten my stick and worked a treat at the time, only over a few years the bend has come back in it again

(long continus bend), will the same method work again?

[tommydeer 2]

  patdahat said:

  adbirdy said:

The traditional way is to use steam to heat the stick, but a good way if you don't want to go down that route is a heat gun (you know the type used to burn off paint). Don't put it too close to the stick otherwise you will scorch it!! Heat the stick until it's too hot to touch and then bend it carefully over your knee, you should find that the stick will bend quite easily but go carefully so you don't overdo it!!

Just a note you will never take a dog-leg bend out of a stick but a gradually bent stick can be straightened using this method.

 

Ade

 

iv used the heat before to straighten my stick and worked a treat at the time, only over a few years the bend has come back in it again

(long continus bend), will the same method work again?

 

 

Ive a little boiler which i steam the bend over, then quickly put it into a jig on the clamp for 10 seconds, perfect!!!

 

Stick forum, do it! i think it would prove reasonably popular

[adbirdy 14]

  patdahat said:

  adbirdy said:

The traditional way is to use steam to heat the stick, but a good way if you don't want to go down that route is a heat gun (you know the type used to burn off paint). Don't put it too close to the stick otherwise you will scorch it!! Heat the stick until it's too hot to touch and then bend it carefully over your knee, you should find that the stick will bend quite easily but go carefully so you don't overdo it!!

Just a note you will never take a dog-leg bend out of a stick but a gradually bent stick can be straightened using this method.

 

Ade

 

iv used the heat before to straighten my stick and worked a treat at the time, only over a few years the bend has come back in it again

(long continus bend), will the same method work again?

 

To be honest I'm not sure, I don't see why it shouldn't work again, but I would be careful in case the previous heat treament has made the stick brittle. I had read that the bend could come back over time but this has not happened to me before.

 

Good luck

 

Ade

[woollyback 0]

Some nice sticks there Ade. Here's some of my grandads sticks he makes, some have been carved from rams horn and some from buffalo.

 

 

 

Theres a pheasant crook, carved pheasant head, adder (one solid piece of rams horn), wild boar, a leg click and a buffalo crook, roe buck, woodcock and a snipe

Edited April 26, 2009 by woollyback

[adbirdy 14]

Those are very nice indeed, there are some very talented people out there!!!!

 

Ade

[jeppi 49]

i av just been given a stick to make my own walking stick just need an roe antler so if any one as a spear antler any where and thay dont want it i would offer it a new home it would be grateful

[the Verminator 0]

just out of intrest how long to dry hazel that was cut in February?

i have about 10 good sticks that i cut in feb i dont know how long to leave them for any ideas?