The anti-stick you from the beginning is just like my mum🤣 During covid I started doing wood-related crafts again and now I have so many walking staffs, a club, a kanabō, a spear thrower and a flail in my room, to the great annoyance of hers. It's not my fault that I follow the primieval call of the stick.
I feel so seen! I spent a season rescuing an old orchard from neglect, so my 'one stick to rule them all' is a pear water sprout I heat treated and waxed. Naturally I brought it home and also had to face the stick-deficient non believers.
Very nice. Sounds like you have yourself an excellent stick now. I pay no attention to the non-believers and naysayers. I know that our ancestors who knew the value of a decent stick, and keep a good quality stick around, were the ancestors who got to pass their genes along to future generations. So the non-believers can say what they will, because the joke's on them. They are only here today because at some point in the past, a man with a stick and little else, was able to survive long enough to make his mark on the world and leave his genetic legacy here before his time was up.
As a fellow former Aikido student I love the channel's focus on staff fighting and sticks in general. Such useful tools in the wild particularly against Geese.
Australia has several great sticks, like the Woomera... makes you throw your stick 35m and hit your target with power. The Woomera are so cool and were multi-purpose too- a knife on the other side, shaped like a bowl to carry foraged materials, maps were sometimes painted on them for navigation and also had notches to help start fires. A genius tool for surviving the outback
"Hello, I'm Lee... And I am a Stickaholic." (Doleful chorus: "Hi Lee...") Guilty, as charged; must be my Scots/Irish/Norman roots. (Pun intended.) I cut invasive English hawthorn and other species of hardwoods on my 80-acre wooded property in Oregon and have hundreds of sticks "on the go." With 80-acres of material to choose from, I'll never run out of choices, (and my workshop IS overflowing with candidate sticks for "future" projects for cleaning/scraping and finishing.) The "Twisty Pagan stick" was especially close to my heart, as I have dozens of such. It is a good affliction and I'm not ashamed of my "Stickaholic-ness" If being a Stickaholic is wrong, I will never be right... Cheers and big thumbs-up from a Colonial Stickaholic with Deep UK roots, now in the Willamette Valey, Oregon Country.
A crook handle walking cane made of hickory is excellent, It's a medical device that can be legally taken into government buildings and abord airliners.
The guard questioned me at the State Capitol. He knew I didn't have to have it, but he also knew it was legal, so he let me in. It did come in handy for balance on some steep steps. Over a hundred years ago they built some steps that aren't all that safe to navigate.
I had so much work lined up this morning. Not now,. After watching this (and posting this comment) I headed to the shed to look in on my modest collection of sticks. Funny first 2 minutes.
i got a nice fighting shillelagh from Olde Shillelagh online. Made from Blackthorn with lead loaded in the head, I love it. They sell regular walking shillelaghs too though.
Agreed, great service and excellent products. Mr O Caidhla is a gent. I was able to get one with lead in both ends. A bit odd looking as a walking stick but moves beautifully when I start swinging it.
Australian aboriginal weapons were pretty impressive, especially since they were carved from very dense wood using only stone tools. The waddy is also called a nulla-nulla, and was used as a club, throwing stick and digging stick. FYI, "waddy" rhymes with "toddy", not with "caddy" 🙂
Good video really funny “Stick deficiency”😂. But very true it is only in the last 100-200 yrs that we’ve stopped having staffs/walking sticks etc that were used for much more than just walking with. Really want to make myself a blackthorn or hawthorn quarter staff
Hah! I am definitely a stickaholic. I made my grandson one when he was five. Sanded, varnished and his name inscribed. I currently have a wizzards staff.
Mcaffrey crafts in Ireland makes a fine blackthorn shillelagh for a good price, he’s got a channel on RUclips as well. I been making blackthorn shillelaghs, canes and staffs for bout 13 years here in Tasmania Australia, truly my favourite stick!😂
Perfect timing, I was about to go look for a stick after my coffee, unfortunately mostly fir and cedars about, but I have my eye on a nice straight alder branch....👍🏻✌🏻 You are getting really good at making videos where you talk to yourself 😂
I have four shillelagh that I pulled from a storm-downed red oak, and they are pretty much my favorite sticks. They run the gamut of length from club to walking stick, and no two have the exact same use.
I have a cane fitted with a handsaw type handle, and with marbles captured in the stick below the handle. Made by an old man near Ardmore, TN. He has been gone for a long time now. Another long stick is, I think, hornbeam. from the Ozark Mountains; it is a super strong wood, and looks like it is rippling with muscles.
I picked up a really nice willow stick at the beginning of a long walk a couple of months ago. My dog helped me find it. It’s a similar length to one of my manuka sticks, exactly the same weight but twice as thick. The manuka stick in question I picked up off the ground in thick bush so it’s got some bora holes in it, but I carved it while on that camping trip and it’s a great length. I must revisit some of my older sticks too, now that this video makes it ok to be a stickoholic! I’ll also check my holly hedge that has got too tall, since I’m sure there must be a good stick to be had there. I could do with a slightly shorter one because of the Gandalf thing mentioned in the video - most of my sticks are chin height.
You need a rabbit stick. My favorite hiking stick is made from a Osage Orange sapling. Old timers always used a story stick or pole when they built a house or barn.
I love your videos. They are truly an inspiration to me. Of your looking for a blackthorn shillelagh I would check out McCaffrey Crafts. They make them for a living and I've been meaning to get one from them myself.
The ultimate walking stick for me would be a narwhal tusk or a walrus ding aling , the ding aling stick is more of a club but could be up to 3 feet long
You should definitely pursue this highlander staff sword! It’s like a Scottish taiaha but much more great sword like. If you do, you should test the psi transfer compared to a regular staff of the same weight and so on.
I made my stick out of a 1/2" rod of titanium with a nice grippy high density foam handle for a fishing pole. Great for hiking and smacking things that deserve it.
I used to be juried woodcarving artist, sold spoons but also walking sticks I'd carve on, most wood spirit type faces. I would find saplings that vines had strangled, twisting them. I have a staff made of wax wood, native to China. Super smooth, relatively straight, ridiculously strong, they are used in martial arts.
Funny as hell born in Glasgow spent 14 years in Japan and 17 in China doing different arts and people never quite had that word to describe me...brilliant
I keep a nice shillelagh type stick made from Dogwood with a nice little knob on the end in my van. Wicked dense! Alas, I only have four other sticks in various links. Old tool/broom handles are good candidates for your collection. Cheers! Love your stuff.
yea a lot of the gum trees and eucalyptus trees and other native trees in Australia are very dense woods, I have one its my heavy weight staff that I use for strength and conditioning.
Ever tried a bamboo long staff? c: It's my favorite stick. I too have a stick addiction. Mine is the length of my body, plus the length of one of my arms all the way up... which for me is about 8 feet tall, where I'm about 6'. I made it for yoga, stretching my back and arms in ways only a long staff could. Also, I have a few of those Spirally pagan sticks. Yours is great, though! Beautiful stick.
Hey! Just got to say you have really some of the best content out there! Top stuff, I'm curious, where the best places to get a kilt/plaid that you wear in your other videos!? Cheers :)
Ahh, I have found my people.😊 I have been a stickaholic for all my life, much to the chagrin of my parents. I, too, am a fan of the jo staff and Eastern weapons including the bokken and suburitu. I am also a fan of Cold Steel and their variety of extremely tough polypropylene weapons. I recommend checking them out.
Too late I've been a stick-a-holic for years, making them all the time. I used to copice some blackthorn (favourite) wood) many years ago. Got my eye on some Blackthorn and 1 piece of Hawthorn not far away, but across a deep muddy burn, I plan to cut some next winter to at least make a shilelagh.
Mine's a 4'6" ash pole with an antler handle and a carved doe's foot. I also have a Shillelagh hung up at the door. Both are home made. The walking stick is a statement of intent and the mark of a pilgrim. It is a probe, a hoist, a lever, a tent pole, depth gague, a rescue device, a flagpole and a very handy place to store cordage. If you are equipped with a suitable stick, I assume you are fine. A seasoned traveller. If I meet someone on the hill without one, I always wonder if they are OK.
One thing that should be mentioned about rattan is that it does not splinter the way wood will splinter, which is why it is so often used for striking weapons in Southeast Asian fighting styles, like Filipino escrima/arnis/kali.
Have you heard of Francis McCaffery? He does traditional blackthorn staves and shillelaghs, his family has been making them for generations. I live in Canada so it was too expensive with shipping but if I ever make it to Ireland I’d love to see his shop.
Hey there! I just discovered your channel and I'm enjoying all of your videos immensely! I've always been obsessed with sticks, too! I didn't know there were others out there 😅 May I ask if you know the brand of the green backpack you're wearing in your four year-old video about how to make the perfect stick? I'm also obsessed with backpacks and that one looks really cool! Thank you and keep up all the good work!
Have u heard of the shepherd's leap or salto del pastor? They use sticks to vault-traverse over hilly terrain and even safely jump down from impressive heights...
Currently working on 2 oak staffs, one is a shillelagh with a knot on one end, and the other looks like a wizard staff. They’re sanded and ready for design work, but I don’t know what I want to burn onto them yet 😂 (i have commitment issues when it comes to these sorts of projects lol) I think I’ll take inspiration from the designs your partner made and try to come up with my own 😊
I have 2 hiking 🥾 sticks ,a cane of an irregular shape stick that has been treated directly to make the cane & appearantly looks like it's been based on stick style that native American of Baja California, Mexico would use against coyotes. I also have a heavy plastic stick with a tennis ball at the base (I'd say if attacked by wild animals it would bite on the tennis ball because you'd need to put it towards it's mouth to not get bit.
Respect to you that your "Australian Stick" wasn't a stereotypical boomerang. The breadth and variety of Australian stick types is criminally under-reported.
Great video, loved listening to you go through your collection. Just quickly wanted to say that in Australia the term aborigines is considered outdated and in some cases it's even considered a slur by many indigenous people. Aboriginal is the more preferred term now, although if you know the name of the specific indigenous group that's even better. I totally understand why you used the word that you did, but I just thought it was important to let you know that it's outdated.
Slightly off-topic, but where would you recommend to get a full plaid. My son has been asked to be best-man at a Scottish wedding. My family, on my mother's side are Robertsons, leading to Boss & Co. gunsmiths, the astute mans' Purdey. So, we would like your recomendation for a plaid maker and a tailor who could supply such an item. Great video as always, thank you.
Sometime I want to see a video of the Big Stick versus various objects: Watermelons, pumpkins, coconuts, motorcycle helmets, and such. I want to know just how much power that thing holds! Edit: Ooh, and the waddy! That would be fun to see some tests on, too, if you're willing! :) Edit 2: I have a serious stick deficiency. I have a very nice (probably pine) dowel from the hardware store, but that's pretty much my only half-decent stick, and it's still not very good since it has no personality and character of its own. I lack an abundance of good trees to cut staves from in my area, and the areas that have good trees are under government protection---so no available sticks! :(
The anti-stick you from the beginning is just like my mum🤣 During covid I started doing wood-related crafts again and now I have so many walking staffs, a club, a kanabō, a spear thrower and a flail in my room, to the great annoyance of hers. It's not my fault that I follow the primieval call of the stick.
She is afraid of the sticks because they will make you a man and take you away from her control.
Its in mans nature to have a stick.
Haha! I'll admit I learned that disapproving look from my mum 😂
As a contact staff guy, that intro really got me too!
Cheers, fellow members of the Order Of The Stick.
@@FandabiDoziplease don't tell me that's a actual definition for like sticks
That pillow stick was awesome 🔥🔥🔥
Now I want a pillow stick. 😅
I feel so seen! I spent a season rescuing an old orchard from neglect, so my 'one stick to rule them all' is a pear water sprout I heat treated and waxed. Naturally I brought it home and also had to face the stick-deficient non believers.
Very nice. Sounds like you have yourself an excellent stick now. I pay no attention to the non-believers and naysayers. I know that our ancestors who knew the value of a decent stick, and keep a good quality stick around, were the ancestors who got to pass their genes along to future generations. So the non-believers can say what they will, because the joke's on them. They are only here today because at some point in the past, a man with a stick and little else, was able to survive long enough to make his mark on the world and leave his genetic legacy here before his time was up.
As a fellow former Aikido student I love the channel's focus on staff fighting and sticks in general. Such useful tools in the wild particularly against Geese.
Australia has several great sticks, like the Woomera... makes you throw your stick 35m and hit your target with power.
The Woomera are so cool and were multi-purpose too- a knife on the other side, shaped like a bowl to carry foraged materials, maps were sometimes painted on them for navigation and also had notches to help start fires. A genius tool for surviving the outback
Interesting! Thanks for sharing. I'll research that stick further 😊
Pick your wood and stick with it but dont forget to branch out in further development it can become the crown of your hobbies with strong roots
🤣🤣👍🏻
Excellent play on words. Very well said, Sir.
@@mattjack3983 wordplays of an Autist
"Hello, I'm Lee... And I am a Stickaholic."
(Doleful chorus: "Hi Lee...")
Guilty, as charged; must be my Scots/Irish/Norman roots. (Pun intended.)
I cut invasive English hawthorn and other species of hardwoods on my 80-acre wooded property in Oregon and have hundreds of sticks "on the go." With 80-acres of material to choose from, I'll never run out of choices, (and my workshop IS overflowing with candidate sticks for "future" projects for cleaning/scraping and finishing.)
The "Twisty Pagan stick" was especially close to my heart, as I have dozens of such.
It is a good affliction and I'm not ashamed of my "Stickaholic-ness" If being a Stickaholic is wrong, I will never be right...
Cheers and big thumbs-up from a Colonial Stickaholic with Deep UK roots, now in the Willamette Valey, Oregon Country.
A crook handle walking cane made of hickory is excellent, It's a medical device that can be legally taken into government buildings and abord airliners.
The guard questioned me at the State Capitol. He knew I didn't have to have it, but he also knew it was legal, so he let me in. It did come in handy for balance on some steep steps. Over a hundred years ago they built some steps that aren't all that safe to navigate.
*aboard
I thought I was the only person who has this problem. Beautiful actually.
Hey now! Inherently understanding the value of decent stick is NEVER a "problem", nor should you ever allow yourself to think of it as such.
When a problem comes along
You must stick it
Before the cream sits out too long
You must stick it
When something's going wrong
You must stick it
Bravo! Awesome comment 😆
Stick it!
Stick it GOOD ! 🎶
Sticktastic video, I too have stick problem, I'm not ashamed, Thank you for bringing stick awareness to the wider world.
I had so much work lined up this morning. Not now,. After watching this (and posting this comment) I headed to the shed to look in on my modest collection of sticks. Funny first 2 minutes.
i got a nice fighting shillelagh from Olde Shillelagh online. Made from Blackthorn with lead loaded in the head, I love it. They sell regular walking shillelaghs too though.
Cool! Thanks for sharing 😮
Agreed, great service and excellent products. Mr O Caidhla is a gent. I was able to get one with lead in both ends. A bit odd looking as a walking stick but moves beautifully when I start swinging it.
Australian aboriginal weapons were pretty impressive, especially since they were carved from very dense wood using only stone tools. The waddy is also called a nulla-nulla, and was used as a club, throwing stick and digging stick. FYI, "waddy" rhymes with "toddy", not with "caddy" 🙂
Good video really funny “Stick deficiency”😂. But very true it is only in the last 100-200 yrs that we’ve stopped having staffs/walking sticks etc that were used for much more than just walking with. Really want to make myself a blackthorn or hawthorn quarter staff
Absolutely
What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back? A stick.
Hah! I am definitely a stickaholic. I made my grandson one when he was five. Sanded, varnished and his name inscribed. I currently have a wizzards staff.
Mcaffrey crafts in Ireland makes a fine blackthorn shillelagh for a good price, he’s got a channel on RUclips as well. I been making blackthorn shillelaghs, canes and staffs for bout 13 years here in Tasmania Australia, truly my favourite stick!😂
"Stick deficiency" giggity
That twisty ritual stick is badass!!!
Perfect timing, I was about to go look for a stick after my coffee, unfortunately mostly fir and cedars about, but I have my eye on a nice straight alder branch....👍🏻✌🏻
You are getting really good at making videos where you talk to yourself 😂
I have four shillelagh that I pulled from a storm-downed red oak, and they are pretty much my favorite sticks. They run the gamut of length from club to walking stick, and no two have the exact same use.
I have a cane fitted with a handsaw type handle, and with marbles captured in the stick below the handle. Made by an old man near Ardmore, TN. He has been gone for a long time now. Another long stick is, I think, hornbeam. from the Ozark Mountains; it is a super strong wood, and looks like it is rippling with muscles.
I picked up a really nice willow stick at the beginning of a long walk a couple of months ago. My dog helped me find it. It’s a similar length to one of my manuka sticks, exactly the same weight but twice as thick. The manuka stick in question I picked up off the ground in thick bush so it’s got some bora holes in it, but I carved it while on that camping trip and it’s a great length. I must revisit some of my older sticks too, now that this video makes it ok to be a stickoholic! I’ll also check my holly hedge that has got too tall, since I’m sure there must be a good stick to be had there. I could do with a slightly shorter one because of the Gandalf thing mentioned in the video - most of my sticks are chin height.
Man, you did a really great job with this video!! Greetings from Brazil!!!
You need a rabbit stick. My favorite hiking stick is made from a Osage Orange sapling. Old timers always used a story stick or pole when they built a house or barn.
I just love those intros, they are in full movie mode, and all of a sudden - breaking the forth wall with "you folk can come to if you want" :)
I love your videos. They are truly an inspiration to me. Of your looking for a blackthorn shillelagh I would check out McCaffrey Crafts. They make them for a living and I've been meaning to get one from them myself.
The ultimate walking stick for me would be a narwhal tusk or a walrus ding aling , the ding aling stick is more of a club but could be up to 3 feet long
Excellent workmanship and information!
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
You should definitely pursue this highlander staff sword! It’s like a Scottish taiaha but much more great sword like. If you do, you should test the psi transfer compared to a regular staff of the same weight and so on.
Terrific!
Thank you for sharing!👍
Captivating video. I admire your work and the way you transmit your energy.
I have always wanted an umbrella cane with a split handle that can be used as a stool. It would be the Swiss Army Knife of sticks.
I wish there was an option to love a video! Always been a stickaholic. Sticks rule!!!
Outstanding 👍
Thanks a lot 😊
That intro skit has made me realise that my spirit animal is Fandabi Dozi
I made my stick out of a 1/2" rod of titanium with a nice grippy high density foam handle for a fishing pole. Great for hiking and smacking things that deserve it.
I love how you did the Spongebob "HMMMMMMMM?" bit
So brilliant, I personnally hold on to many sticks myself lol.
Very well done - very entertaining!
Thanks for keeping the dream alive!
As a spindle and distaff spinner, and a stickoholic, I feel seen and understood.
Knitters also like sticks.
I used to be juried woodcarving artist, sold spoons but also walking sticks I'd carve on, most wood spirit type faces. I would find saplings that vines had strangled, twisting them. I have a staff made of wax wood, native to China. Super smooth, relatively straight, ridiculously strong, they are used in martial arts.
Love the idea of the story stick!
Great video ! I feel you, I practice Canne de combat and I now have a cane/stick problem at home !
nice one dude, a fellow stickaholic.! simple as, like a world without string is a world in chaos.
Funny as hell born in Glasgow spent 14 years in Japan and 17 in China doing different arts and people never quite had that word to describe me...brilliant
Thank you Tom, that is an instructive video and I appreciate you doing it. We guys sure love holding sticks, if you know what I mean.
That intro is awesome! It might have also been a conversation between my wife and I before...😇
Thank you
This is definitely one of the best stick related videos i have seen. This may even be the start of a new hobby. What have you done!?
Thanks
Danke!
I keep a nice shillelagh type stick made from Dogwood with a nice little knob on the end in my van. Wicked dense! Alas, I only have four other sticks in various links. Old tool/broom handles are good candidates for your collection. Cheers! Love your stuff.
yea a lot of the gum trees and eucalyptus trees and other native trees in Australia are very dense woods, I have one its my heavy weight staff that I use for strength and conditioning.
Ever tried a bamboo long staff? c:
It's my favorite stick. I too have a stick addiction.
Mine is the length of my body, plus the length of one of my arms all the way up... which for me is about 8 feet tall, where I'm about 6'.
I made it for yoga, stretching my back and arms in ways only a long staff could.
Also, I have a few of those Spirally pagan sticks. Yours is great, though! Beautiful stick.
I respected you for your stick knowledge. I revere you for the carl jung reference.
Hey!
Just got to say you have really some of the best content out there! Top stuff,
I'm curious, where the best places to get a kilt/plaid that you wear in your other videos!?
Cheers :)
Ahh, I have found my people.😊 I have been a stickaholic for all my life, much to the chagrin of my parents. I, too, am a fan of the jo staff and Eastern weapons including the bokken and suburitu. I am also a fan of Cold Steel and their variety of extremely tough polypropylene weapons. I recommend checking them out.
Pure braw. 👍❤️👍
I use a white cane for visual impairment and would love to defend myself with it. Thank you for this video, it is very interesting.
Love getting your emails buddy. Keep up the good work
Great video Tom and I must confess. I am a stickaholic as well
Nate
Too late I've been a stick-a-holic for years, making them all the time. I used to copice some blackthorn (favourite) wood) many years ago. Got my eye on some Blackthorn and 1 piece of Hawthorn not far away, but across a deep muddy burn, I plan to cut some next winter to at least make a shilelagh.
Technically the pillow stick is a cudgel ie shillelagh! Once crafted it’s more than just a stick!!
Mine's a 4'6" ash pole with an antler handle and a carved doe's foot. I also have a Shillelagh hung up at the door. Both are home made. The walking stick is a statement of intent and the mark of a pilgrim. It is a probe, a hoist, a lever, a tent pole, depth gague, a rescue device, a flagpole and a very handy place to store cordage. If you are equipped with a suitable stick, I assume you are fine. A seasoned traveller. If I meet someone on the hill without one, I always wonder if they are OK.
So many sticks!!!
One thing that should be mentioned about rattan is that it does not splinter the way wood will splinter, which is why it is so often used for striking weapons in Southeast Asian fighting styles, like Filipino escrima/arnis/kali.
You have good stick material growing where you live. I live in the USA in the state of Montana,we don't have good stick material where I live.
Have you heard of Francis McCaffery? He does traditional blackthorn staves and shillelaghs, his family has been making them for generations. I live in Canada so it was too expensive with shipping but if I ever make it to Ireland I’d love to see his shop.
Sticks are my love language
Hey there! I just discovered your channel and I'm enjoying all of your videos immensely! I've always been obsessed with sticks, too! I didn't know there were others out there 😅 May I ask if you know the brand of the green backpack you're wearing in your four year-old video about how to make the perfect stick? I'm also obsessed with backpacks and that one looks really cool! Thank you and keep up all the good work!
😂 this was awesome and I can totally relate 😂
Stick will defend me from the curse of the cobra chicken?!?!? Bastards chase me into traffic all the time!
Nothing like a good stick.
Aye! the sticks of life, one which one should have as an keep sake, aye! cheerio.
Dude you are seriously funny but I love your weapons advice and survival techniques.
This man Is ready for the wizard war
Have u heard of the shepherd's leap or salto del pastor? They use sticks to vault-traverse over hilly terrain and even safely jump down from impressive heights...
Currently working on 2 oak staffs, one is a shillelagh with a knot on one end, and the other looks like a wizard staff. They’re sanded and ready for design work, but I don’t know what I want to burn onto them yet 😂 (i have commitment issues when it comes to these sorts of projects lol) I think I’ll take inspiration from the designs your partner made and try to come up with my own 😊
Pls make a video about the history and use of the two handed scottish greatsword aka claymore. Very hard to do research on the topic
Thank you Excellent video. I am a fellow stick a holic lol
I have 2 hiking 🥾 sticks ,a cane of an irregular shape stick that has been treated directly to make the cane & appearantly looks like it's been based on stick style that native American of Baja California, Mexico would use against coyotes. I also have a heavy plastic stick with a tennis ball at the base (I'd say if attacked by wild animals it would bite on the tennis ball because you'd need to put it towards it's mouth to not get bit.
That seems like a pretty good synopsis.
I bet you can get out of many sticky situations with a collection like that.
Great video. What kind of wood is your story stick made from?
I've been thinking about maybe making a long staff that turns into a water serpent. c:
The other loved and valuable group that loves sticks... Dogs. My dog Orion LOVES a good stick!
Christ on a bike, i'm not the only one who has sticks leaning against walls, doors, corners and under the bed!🤣 👍
Respect to you that your "Australian Stick" wasn't a stereotypical boomerang. The breadth and variety of Australian stick types is criminally under-reported.
The intro 😂 🙌
Great video, loved listening to you go through your collection.
Just quickly wanted to say that in Australia the term aborigines is considered outdated and in some cases it's even considered a slur by many indigenous people. Aboriginal is the more preferred term now, although if you know the name of the specific indigenous group that's even better.
I totally understand why you used the word that you did, but I just thought it was important to let you know that it's outdated.
Slightly off-topic, but where would you recommend to get a full plaid. My son has been asked to be best-man at a Scottish wedding. My family, on my mother's side are Robertsons, leading to Boss & Co. gunsmiths, the astute mans' Purdey. So, we would like your recomendation for a plaid maker and a tailor who could supply such an item. Great video as always, thank you.
"Weird twirly pagan ritual stick..."
I actually did that as well. I made two walking sticks with a bokken blade on each.
One stick to rule them all.1=2
"That's my pillow stick" 🤣🤣🤣
Sometime I want to see a video of the Big Stick versus various objects: Watermelons, pumpkins, coconuts, motorcycle helmets, and such. I want to know just how much power that thing holds!
Edit: Ooh, and the waddy! That would be fun to see some tests on, too, if you're willing! :)
Edit 2: I have a serious stick deficiency. I have a very nice (probably pine) dowel from the hardware store, but that's pretty much my only half-decent stick, and it's still not very good since it has no personality and character of its own. I lack an abundance of good trees to cut staves from in my area, and the areas that have good trees are under government protection---so no available sticks! :(