Making a Walking Stick from a Hickory Sapling

making a walking stick from a Hickory sapling. I add on to the projects I am doing by making a walking stick from a hickory sapling. As if I was not doing enough stuff already.

[@wayner6494]

I really enjoy work, especiall your walking sticks. keep it up I appreciate what your do.

[@BrailsfordWoodworks]

Thanks Wayne!

[@cmintsurfer]

Nice work. I keep mine by the front door and walk right past it. I remember it halfway to the barn.

[@BrailsfordWoodworks]

Well, I hate to see all these Hickory and Persimmon saplings go to waste! Thanks for watching!

[@ParentsandProjects]

That's a beauty of a walking stick. Nice!

[@BrailsfordWoodworks]

Thank you very much!

[@johnzdrazil2140]

Thank you for sharing!! Nice work.

[@BrailsfordWoodworks]

Thanks for watching and the kind words!

[@jayfromtexas6718]

Nice! Lived in Leon County Texas for 10 years. Mom and Dad retired there. We moved back to the Texas Gulf Coast in 1990. The trees you talked were about what we had up there. Parents have since passed and the place got sold. Not much around where I live for making sticks. Never know what you got till it's gone.

[@BrailsfordWoodworks]

That is for sure! Thanks for watching!

[@OzarkArtsandCrafts]

Just discover your channel. Great walking stick video. My specialty is walking sticks and always looking for new ideas.

[@BrailsfordWoodworks]

Thank you Dennis! Not really my main gig, but I did have fun making them and will do more in the future!

[@col.davidcrockett5959]

Very nice work, it inspires me to undertake such a craft that should be pure fun.

[@BrailsfordWoodworks]

It was fun! Thanks for watching!

[@WoodWithD]

I could really do with one of those! Nice work! ❤️

[@BrailsfordWoodworks]

Thanks Richard!

[@DougMilleratWoodSpunRound]

They look good to me. Well done buddy.

[@BrailsfordWoodworks]

Thanks Doug!

[@bobthecpaontheloose4141]

Nice job. Looks like a fun project!

[@BrailsfordWoodworks]

Thank you!

[@rodneyfruhling5128]

Awesome job thank you

[@BrailsfordWoodworks]

Thanks Rodney!

[@WoodenItBeNice]

Nice pair of walking sticks Mike. Take care mate. Cheers, Huw

[@BrailsfordWoodworks]

Thanks Huw!

[@normakers5632]

Those came out nice! Should be good sellers at the craft shows.maybe your next project should be a cigar holder,haha! Take care

[@BrailsfordWoodworks]

I am going to make some cigar holders! Thanks!

[@roseannegibson3343]

Really nice

[@BrailsfordWoodworks]

Thank you so much!

[@CoupleofBunkies]

that intro is soo good

[@BrailsfordWoodworks]

Thanks! and thanks for watching!

[@daveblevins3322]

The nicest walking stick I made was from some Manzanita bushes that were cleared out for a forest road in Arizona. Back in '98 near Prescott.

[@BrailsfordWoodworks]

I will bet it was beautiful! Thanks for watching!

[@angellynette8258]

Nice walking stick! I started doing walking sticks a few months ago when my mother had some maples, Camellia bushes and a Red Tip Photinia cut down. It’s just something fun to do. Any rack I fill with epoxy.

[@BrailsfordWoodworks]

Thank you! I think you got into it the same way I did!

[@kevinmurphy65]

Great job...although the camera could be better situated so we can see the wrapping...hands get in the way.

[@BrailsfordWoodworks]

Thanks and sorry about that!

[@stephen8433]

Those were two nice projects. It was thoughtful of you to make a walking especially for your wife. What is their diameter? I have a Japanese Jo about 1" in diameter.

[@BrailsfordWoodworks]

I think it is closer to 1 1/2". If the wood is tough it should work. Thanks and thanks for watching!

[@johnlewis9745]

Do you think that some glue spread over the handle before wrapping the para-cord around it would help to make a firmer wrap around. ?

[@BrailsfordWoodworks]

I have one I use myself several times a week for the past couple years and I have not had a problem with it. Not to mention the probable mess, with glue leaking through the cord. Thanks for watching.

[@jackthompson5092]

I don’t think it would work very good on my treadmill. Great job.

[@BrailsfordWoodworks]

sure it would! you just have to walk fast! Thanks for watching!

[@davidwhiren817]

Good day to you , fellow crafts person !!! I know that I am very late to this video , & I apologize for that !!! Being a whittling / woodcarver of over 50 years , I thought that I would share just one little tid bit that I learned along the way , having worked in this area before , going back several decades !!! Whether I am making the walking staff for myself or another , before I nail down the location of the handle , I , or the intended recipient , needs to put in some actual walking time with the stick , to see where the hand actually ends up , under extended use conditions !!! & once that spot of comfort is determined , I then add 6" above the thumb& forefinger spot & 6" bellow the pinky finger spot & embellish that area with a suitable grip , wrapped or carved etc. !!! Hope that this might help , in the actual planning of someone's next project , of a similar nature !!!

[@BrailsfordWoodworks]

That is all excellent advice! I will, however, tell you that the walking stick part of my business was kind of an accident. I had burned some undergrowth at my place that killed a bunch of hickory saplings I had. I have plenty of firewood already and cold not bring myself to just burn it. So I made the walking sticks instead. I am primarily a wood turner and that is where my passion lies. When I make these it will be in small batches, with no frills, and done in such a way to help keep my cost per unit as low as I can. I sill have some of the saplings left to work with. My booth at shows only has to items that are not turned, these sticks, and my cutting boards. Everything else comes off of the lathe. It at some point I decide that I want to delve deeper into this part of my business, like after I retire from my job, I will certainly enthusiastically take your advice! Thanks for the advice and for watching!

[@davidwhiren817]

More so for your viewers !!!@@BrailsfordWoodworks

[@tirthadutisarkar3222]

Wow , I love the spiral , Did you have any trouble with the stain penetrating green wood, or did you let the branch dry for a while ??

[@BrailsfordWoodworks]

They were already dry. The green colored wood is Persimmon and it too was already dry.

[@jjm6187]

Should I let the wood season before stripping the bark? Or strip then season for X amount of time?

[@BrailsfordWoodworks]

I stripped off the bark green and then put them in my solar kiln. The bark comes off easier green for sure.

[@jjm6187]

@@BrailsfordWoodworks A solar kiln sounds awesome. Do you think I can just let them naturally season? better to do so outdoors partially covered with sun or in the garage?

[@BrailsfordWoodworks]

@@jjm6187 without another option I would look at sticking it in my attic. Dry and hot. Thanks!

[@saufathau6827]

nice

[@BrailsfordWoodworks]

Thanks!

[@saufathau6827]

I use one of those metallic/alloy sticks。But yours is just beautiful。

[@mb_a5383]

Nice, about how many feet of paracord did you use?

[@BrailsfordWoodworks]

Thanks! It has been a while, but I believe it is about 6'.

[@emilboire1890]

What didyou use on the cracks at about the 4:00-4:20 mark?

[@BrailsfordWoodworks]

I used Starbond brown CA glue.

[@emilboire1890]

@@BrailsfordWoodworks Thank you

[@goyonehiro1]

Aloha. Do you have any walking sticks for sale. I am recently disabled and would like one. Thanks

[@BrailsfordWoodworks]

Sorry. Unfortunately I do not right now. Not sure when I am going to do another batch.

[@rtwhitson3]

Do you know what species of hickory you have there? My great great granddaddy used second growth hickory in Kentucky to make walking canes which he shaped into the traditional curve. Probably Bitternut or Shagbark, not sure. I made a straight walker from Bitternut, back in Kentucky. I'm now in South Carolina, and I made a walker from Southern Live Oak. Like my forefather, I leave the bark on the handle portion.

[@BrailsfordWoodworks]

Not Shagbark. Pretty sure it is Bitternut. Thanks for watching!