Cutting Blackthorn for walking sticks and shillelaghs
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- Cutting Blackthorn to make walking sticks and shillelaghs
Been quite busy with work and family plus the nights coming in darker quicker here in Cumbria
#blackthornshillelagh #blackthornsticks #walkingsticks
shed may get too warm in summer. i tried attic and sticks split to hot in summer.if u put them tea light candles in small old fry pan that seals ends real well. i cut mine minimum 6 inch to a foot over lenth i want also so if any cracks come they dont reach the wood u wana use.
Thanks I’m experimenting this year with this year harvest sealed with wax. All experiment waxed and in same shed and year after I’ll try something different
@@CutterStickMan good look with it pal. i cut 17 tday. 3 thumb sticks in a day usualy lucky to get one a year. i had 3 year serply robbed. got bout 20 to work on. hope to get bout 50 good uns this year. and stick at bout 50 a year. i heat me wax in fry pan then dip ends in. u get good seal that way
Liquid C.A. Glue is very efficient to prevent cracking in the drying process, much more effective that wax. It has a high degree of capillarity and will go inside tiny cracks or depressions and stop them !
Why is blackthorn chosen over hawthorn, is it stronger lighter?
Blackthorn is more dence and heavy then hawthorn. Hawthorn is lighter….
@@Rhinevalleysticks thanks for the info 👍
Traditionally shillelagh were made out of oak or blackthorn, but for a walking stick could use any