anyone else make canes?

[Sam Fleisher]

A buddy asked me to make him a cane so I did and for some reason I've still been making them off and on. It's a good challenge to make a 3 foot spindle tapered from 1 1/4 to 7/8.

Here's the latest, Hedge apple shaft with a stylized green vine snake for some color. (all hand carved with rasps and files) Copper ferrules with an antler donated by a whitetail.

 

[Steve Tiedman]

Looks great, Sam.

Recently I came across a reference to a knobkerrie. (A what?) Lots of history out there about the humble walking stick. I want to make one following this video as an inspiration. In the process, he takes the bend out of his stick in an interesting way. It's a neat short video to watch.

View: https://youtu.be/Sodeng1U9Mg?si=GI1W1EwnLHTevuin

 

[Steve Tiedman]

Boy, this gent (Mick Grewcock, same as in my last message) really makes some nice short movies, most about craft, some about life. Here he is making a hooked walking staff. I've only watched a few, but it seems English longbows are the youtube videos that he's known for.

View: https://youtu.be/jrP-YBIWVFs?si=JUHBsm9ScHJHMwAT


More about him.
https://mickgrewcock.wordpress.com/

 

[R Henrickson]

A buddy asked me to make him a cane so I did and for some reason I've still been making them off and on. It's a good challenge to make a 3 foot spindle tapered from 1 1/4 to 7/8.
Here's the latest, Hedge apple shaft with a stylized green vine snake for some color. (all hand carved with rasps and files) Copper ferrules with an antler donated by a whitetail.

Not quite the same thing, but similarly slender. Back post for a Windsor armchair. 30" long, 1/2" diameter at one end, 3/8" at the other, with a thin 3/4"waist at the middle.

 

[hughie]

I am looking into making an African Walking stick with a blade hidden in the main body. Presently sorting out the locking mechanism.

 

[Kent Reisdorph]

Hedge apple shaft with a stylized green vine snake for some color.

That would be Osage orange for those of you not familiar with the term hedge apple.

 

[Sam Fleisher]

That would be Osage orange for those of you not familiar with the term hedge apple.

po Tay toes ----- po taut o for the more southern it's bo dark.

 

[Sam Fleisher]

Guess I could have went with the "oak" version.

 

[Stan Pressner]

I have been making a few, all walnut shafts and various heads

 

[Kent Reisdorph]

po Tay toes ----- po taut o for the more southern it's bo dark.

I read recently that bodark is a bastardization of bois d'arc (bow wood in French).

 

[Charles Cadenhead]

po Tay toes ----- po taut o for the more southern it's bo dark.

Or horse apple

 

[Sam Fleisher]

I read recently that bodark is a bastardization of bois d'arc (bow wood in French).

It is, I was being phonetic.

 

[Sam Fleisher]

I have been making a few, all walnut shafts and various headsView attachment 64803View attachment 64804

They look good! Have you made any 2 or 3 piece shafts yet?

I really want to make a shaft out of bocote but its hard to find for the diameter I want. Bell forest is out at the moment so I figured I'm going to have to step up and use some shorter length and then join together.

 

[Steve Tiedman]

Sam, look up Gilmer Hardwoods in Portland, OR. This place is incredible!

 

[Gerald Lawrence]

po Tay toes ----- po taut o for the more southern it's bo dark.

No it is Bo Doc which is short for Bois d'Arc

 

[Timothy White]

The term Bois d’Arc is French named by French explorers. It means wood of the bow. Osage orange refers to the fruit fruit (Seed pod) of this tree which the Osage made their bows and other things from. The tree is native to the Ozark mountains and the Texas red river valley. Ozark is another French word which means Osage bow.
In the mid 1800’s enterprising individuals from the area of Bonham Texas collected the seeds of the Bois d’Arc took them to the Midwest and sold them to farmers to make hedges with. This business stopped with the invention of Bob War ( Texan for Barbed Wire). Thus the name Hedge and Hedge Apple. The French pronunciation of Bois d’Arc is bwa dock (Texan Bo Dark).

 

[Kent Reisdorph]

The term Bois d’Arc is French named by French explorers. It means wood of the bow. Osage orange refers to the fruit fruit (Seed pod) of this tree which the Osage made their bows and other things from. The tree is native to the Ozark mountains and the Texas red river valley. Ozark is another French word which means Osage bow.
In the mid 1800’s enterprising individuals from the area of Bonham Texas collected the seeds of the Bois d’Arc took them to the Midwest and sold them to farmers to make hedges with. This business stopped with the invention of Bob War ( Texan for Barbed Wire). Thus the name Hedge and Hedge Apple. The French pronunciation of Bois d’Arc is bwa dock (Texan Bo Dark).

Ozark - I had no idea. Fortunately, my one bodark doesn't fruit. I'd hate to be running over softballs with the mower.

 

[Stan Pressner]

They look good! Have you made any 2 or 3 piece shafts yet?

I really want to make a shaft out of bocote but its hard to find for the diameter I want. Bell forest is out at the moment so I figured I'm going to have to step up and use some shorter length and then join together.

Not yet, but soon!