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Post by toiv0 on Feb 23, 2016 19:24:34 GMT -5
here is a pile of diamond willow blanks, sorry if this is hi jacking your thread.  |
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Post by 1dave on Feb 23, 2016 19:42:43 GMT -5
here is a pile of diamond willow blanks, sorry if this is hi jacking your thread. NOT AT ALL! I love your input! |
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Post by Fossilman on Feb 23, 2016 21:42:18 GMT -5
Thanks Dave,for starting this thread!!!!!!!!!! Thumbs up
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Post by Fossilman on Feb 23, 2016 21:42:42 GMT -5
HOLY MOLLY,killer sticks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by toiv0 on Feb 23, 2016 22:06:12 GMT -5
Some people watch tv, I peel willow. If I get a headache I can soak the bark and drink the water. Sometimes you even find a form of CHAGA on the willow. The native used it for medicinal but don't imagine it has any of the betulin as from the birch trees. They would smudge the chaga for headaches.
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Post by jakesrocks on Feb 23, 2016 23:47:52 GMT -5
For those living in the right climate, don't forget olive wood. I have a few olive walking sticks in the basement somewhere that I made from an olive tree in my mothers back yard. Very tough wood. I also have a real Irish shillelagh, given to me by an Irish friend while I was stationed in Scotland. If I can find them in the mess, I'll get a pic or 2.
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Post by toiv0 on Feb 24, 2016 8:56:04 GMT -5
Here is a pic of my diamond willow cane I am working on for me and Sillelah from my uncle who is from Ireland. He was raised in Aruba, He is 84 and failing fast so keep him in everyones prayers.  |
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Post by Fossilman on Feb 24, 2016 10:08:46 GMT -5
Here is a pic of my diamond willow cane I am working on for me and Sillelah from my uncle who is from Ireland. He was raised in Aruba, He is 84 and failing fast so keep him in everyones prayers. Prayers on the way........ That cane is crazy cool!!!! |
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Post by Fossilman on Feb 24, 2016 10:09:59 GMT -5
For those living in the right climate, don't forget olive wood. I have a few olive walking sticks in the basement somewhere that I made from an olive tree in my mothers back yard. Very tough wood. I also have a real Irish shillelagh, given to me by an Irish friend while I was stationed in Scotland. If I can find them in the mess, I'll get a pic or 2. Don,are you talking of the Russian Olive that grow in ND and SD??? Those are some wicked trees..LOL Never thought of sticking or caning them.... |
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Post by jakesrocks on Feb 24, 2016 11:28:28 GMT -5
For those living in the right climate, don't forget olive wood. I have a few olive walking sticks in the basement somewhere that I made from an olive tree in my mothers back yard. Very tough wood. I also have a real Irish shillelagh, given to me by an Irish friend while I was stationed in Scotland. If I can find them in the mess, I'll get a pic or 2. Don,are you talking of the Russian Olive that grow in ND and SD??? Those are some wicked trees..LOL Never thought of sticking or caning them.... No Mike. These were the type of olive trees that produce real olives. The tree I was harvesting sticks from was in my mothers back yard in Southern California. It needed to be cut back almost every year to keep it from taking over the back yard. |
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Post by rockpickerforever on Feb 24, 2016 16:33:19 GMT -5
Being a relative youngster to some of this set (walking stick not needed... yet!), when this thread first started (thanks, 1dave !) three days ago, this is what popped into my mind:
Had not seen or even thought of these in years, but saw one at my dad's house just a couple weeks ago! Had that not happened, I would most likely have thought "cane" right off. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2016 0:39:01 GMT -5
Yep, Michael, mine were coated with two coats and the beetles hatched right through it. Not a big deal but it does leave a few holes in your stick....Mel Find a way to bake the stick. Kills larvae. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2016 0:43:26 GMT -5
For those living in the right climate, don't forget olive wood. I have a few olive walking sticks in the basement somewhere that I made from an olive tree in my mothers back yard. Very tough wood. I also have a real Irish shillelagh, given to me by an Irish friend while I was stationed in Scotland. If I can find them in the mess, I'll get a pic or 2. I have an edible olive tree taking over. Maybe i get a walking stick off it! Dont need one, but a good plan is have one be fore ya need one! Thank uncle don. |
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Post by rockpickerforever on Feb 25, 2016 0:50:09 GMT -5
Yep, Michael, mine were coated with two coats and the beetles hatched right through it. Not a big deal but it does leave a few holes in your stick....Mel Find a way to bake the stick. Kills larvae. Put it into a black plastic trash bag, place on roof for the summer. |
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Post by Fossilman on Feb 25, 2016 10:55:00 GMT -5
Find a way to bake the stick. Kills larvae. Put it into a black plastic trash bag, place on roof for the summer. Heck,I will stash it in eastern Oregon (High desert country)gets extremely hot over there! Going to take some wood over there and let it weather out.... Brother and sister In law live there.... |
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Post by rockpickerforever on Feb 25, 2016 11:34:09 GMT -5
That sounds like a plan, Mike! I had a large piece of driftwood (roots, actually, had rocks wrapped up in them!), brought home from a river in Northern California. Gave it the "trash bag on the hot roof" treatment, did not have any problems with bugs hatching from it.
But, years later, long after it had been brought home, some carpenter bees bored into, left large holes and larvae! Dang bees!
ETA - Those insect walking sticks, I think jamesp calls them "Idiot Sticks" a name suthenahs also apply to crazy/stoopid (or maybe just misunderstood?) people. Ha! |
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Post by bushmanbilly on Feb 25, 2016 12:14:14 GMT -5
Yep, Michael, mine were coated with two coats and the beetles hatched right through it. Not a big deal but it does leave a few holes in your stick....Mel Find a way to bake the stick. Kills larvae. When I was in Jamaica, I would make ashtrays and mugs out of the large Bamboo for my friends back home. I noticed that a little pile of saw dust was on the table every time I cleaned the ashtray. I put all the bamboo outside over nught. Them wimpy southern bugs can't take the -30 weather we have here. Sawdust problem solved. |
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Post by 1dave on Feb 25, 2016 13:29:12 GMT -5
Here is a closeup of the main carving on that first stick.  |
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Post by 1dave on Feb 26, 2016 11:03:05 GMT -5
 Us westerners call them "Cedar Trees" In fact Cedar City was named for them because they are all over the place out here - BUT they are really JUNIPER trees. Just under the bark they sometimes acquire some artistic bugs. The bottom photo was taken at the small end of this limb (the edge of my wood vice is visible at the bottom left) with some of their scroll work. Then I moved the camera to the right about 2' and snapped the next section of artwork, then again for the top photo. Well I  think it is attractive!  |
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Post by rockpickerforever on Feb 26, 2016 13:36:07 GMT -5
I like them both - the man-made art, and the abstract bug art!
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think it is attractive!
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