Walking Sticks Gift Ideas

Its hard to get the right gift for Christmas, if you find it difficult we have hand picked a few walking sticks that are great for men and women. Thumb walking sticks are perfect mainly used for hill walking and hikers the thumb walking sticks offer a great support when walking on uneven ground. The same for hiking walking sticks or poles that are adjustable and perfect for men and women, again mainly use as hill walking sticks but are great for everyday walking, easy adjustable design and easy storage make hiking walking sticks are great gift for anyone.

Blackthorn walking sticks are also a excellent gift choice for both men and women, blackthorn walking sticks and canes come in many different shapes and sizes for the very popular knob walking canes to L and Hiking style handles, also the weight can vary in many ways, for example you can have a very thick shaft and have a small handle and the opposite a heavy handle and a light shaft.

There is still time to order your walking sticks and get them before Christmas, our last posting day is 21st of December before 1am, if for any reason we can't delivery you product before we will get in contact with you ASAP, all our walking sticks and canes are in stock control and we try to offer a great range of walking sticks all year around.

A last post date for all walking sticks is 21st December 2012 with in the UK and Ireland only.

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Walking Sticks Accessories

Get ready for Christmas with our excellent walking sticks accessories and gifts. Icy conditions and slippery surfaces make the ice grip ferrule great for preventing slips and falls. The ice grip ferrule for walking sticks and canes is a easy installed piece of gear, with 2 simple screws the walking sticks ice grip ferrule can be attached to almost all walking sticks. Also build into the design is a easy flip up and down spike that can be flipped up when you don't need it like indoors and a simple flip down when outdoors.

Also available is steel spike that is build into the walking sticks, this option is cheaper but can not be removed very easily. The one advantage of this steel spike that fits almost all walking sticks is that it is much stronger than the ice grip ferrule which makes it much better for hiking on uneven ground and surfaces. Ideally this spike is perfect for wooden hiking walking sticks which are made for outdoor use and offer the hiker or walker and steady strong walking sticks for all out door adventures. One great extra for the steel pike is a rubber ferule that is special designed to cover over the spike so the walking canes can be used indoors as well as outdoors.

 

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Walking Sticks on Offer

Introducing our new offers available until Christmas, a great range of walking sticks and canes available at excellent prices. Handmade Shepherds crook walking sticks reduced and prices start at £40.00. Quality hand carved walking sticks at excellent prices. Crook walking sticks are mainly used by farmers for herd sheep but can also be cut down to a smaller size and used as normal walking sticks.

The very popular staghorn walking sticks also handmade from the UK and Ireland prices start fro as little as £28.00. Staghorn is a natural material made with antler that’s has falling of red deer in the spring time, staghorn walking sticks are a great looking walking sticks with either a natural Hazel or Chestnut shaft.

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Collectable walking canes are also a great showpiece for walking with, not made to be used as a walking aid but offer a great look when walking. It is important not to use these collectable walking sticks as a walking aid as it may cause them to break under very heavy pressure. If there’s nothing in our offers page have a look at our large range of collectable walking canes page.

A cross all hole range of umbrella walking sticks and fold up umbrellas we have a great offers on every one, our small fold up umbrellas start from as little as £3.49 and umbrellas walking sticks start from  £16.99.

 

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Using a Hand Held Crow Caller

There are many advantages of using hand held crow callers rather than electric crow caller. One massive advantage is that hand held crow caller can be sued in many different ways, there are many different sounds and crow calls you can choose from and us to call in crows. When you have successfully called some crows in it then takes a lot of practice to read the crows behaviour and then bring them in even closer

The FT2 Crow Caller is perfect for this job, it handmade design is perfect for calling crows. Using the crow caller takes some time but with practice you won't be disappointed with the performance of this handmade crow caller. The caller ha many different sounds and calls you can us, both European and America crows can called in with this crow caller. The techniques are very different but work perfectly in Europe and America.

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Thumb Walking Sticks and Canes

 

Thumb walking sticks are becoming very popular across the UK and Ireland, mainly used for hiking or trekking on hillsides and mountainous trails. Thumb walking canes are also a very good every day walking sticks, it can cover a wide range of uses, for example so people use the "V" to place there thumb on when walking while others use the shank of the stick for walking with. The thumb walking sticks can also offer a excellent support if you injure you leg when walking, the "V" of the handle can be placed under the arm pit and leaned on as a crutch.

Thumb walking sticks can be made from many different materials and timber, usually made from hazel or stag horn the thumb walking canes can also be made from blackthorn, ash and chestnut. The handles also vary from stag horn, buffalo horn, one-piece shanks.etc. They all have there own unique design and qualities. But the stag horn and hazel combination are the most popular by far, the horn and hazel walking sticks match up very well and really stand out when made together.

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New Handmade Crow Caller

New handmade FT2 Premium crow caller, unique design special for calling European and America crows, the design of the crow call is made just for crow calling its give a nice sharp sound that is exactly like the call of real crows, unlike other crow caller which have a very raspy sound that can also be used as a turkey call haven't the same sound as real crows and over use of the cheaper crow calls can put crows off very quickly. Unlike our FT2 crow caller, which is design just for crows, it can be used over and over again and the crows keep on coming into the call.

Each crow callers are handmade with excellent quality and design, any damage can be replaced or fixed when you send them back to use, refunds are also available. Each caller has a lanyard, audio calls and manual with each one. Some people might be put of by having to use a manual for a crow caller but with practice you will get better and with time you will be able to "talk" to the crows by using different sounds from the crow caller. Crow calls are very different from each other so it’s important to listen to the crows and try and get the same sound from our crow caller.


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Amazon Payments on Prestige Walking Sticks

We now accept Amazon payments all across our walking sticks and canes. Its now even easier to purchase goods on www.prestigewalkingsticks.com with Amazon payments. Its so easy to use just add you walking sticks to the shopping cart and on the checkout page you will see a Amazon logo button, just click the logo which will bring you onto Amazon payments.

Amazon Payments is an easy way to shop across the web using the shipping and payment information stored in your Amazon.com account. You can pay with your Amazon.com account on any online store or nonprofit website accepting Amazon Payments without having to re-enter your credit card information or sharing your financial information with the charity or merchant. Get the familiar and trusted Amazon.com payment experience off Amazon, just use your Amazon.com e-mail address and password to complete the transaction.

Contact us for more information on Amaon payments.

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Gifts with Walking Sticks

New to our handcrafted walking sticks is our range of handmade clocks just in for the Christmas season. Our new gifts are clock designs from wood and acrylic. Very simple design but a very effective and contemporary look. Each design is very unique no copies of other design or any other clock maker.

We think these handmade clocks fit in perfectly with our handmade walking sticks and canes and offer you the customer a very different shopping experience unlike no other.

Each handmade clock has a very modern and cotemporary look and is made to fit almost any modern home. Pictured left is a 3D effect clock with a 2 piece design, one small clock face in front and a arch made separately which can be place at the back on over the small clock face. Check out our gifts page for more details and more clocks available just for the Christmas season.

Also available in our gift page is walking sticks and camping gear, each gift pack is made up of a small selection of walking sticks and gear special put together, like our accessories pack which is made up of all kinds of walking sticks accessories like wrist strap, ferrule.etc.

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Walking Sticks UK Wholesale

We now offer a small range of wholesale walking sticks UK from our selection. Our handmade walking sticks are all available in wholesale numbers, each of or walking sticks UK are all handmade in the UK and Ireland.

Shepherds crook walking sticks are very popular ranging from timber to buffalo horn and in different ranges of shanks and collars. Shepherds crook walking canes are mainly used by sheep farmers but can be shortened into smaller walking sticks sizes like 30 - 40 inch. The average height of crook walking sticks is 55inch.

Hiking poles and shooting walking sticks can are very good quality and very good value for money, hiking  poles are very simple with a added wrist strap make a excellent low cost walking sticks for a simple desgin, shooting sticks are much the same made using lower quality timber but at very low cost price to the customer.

For more information contact us and we can provide a small price range of quantity’s available.

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New Walking Sticks In.

New to our selection of walking sticks are our shooting walking sticks, handmade in the UK and Ireland. Pictured the left is a low cost 2 shank shooting stick. Designed so it can be folded up and used as walking sticks and when you need it can be opened and used for a shooting stick. Very simple design and a very simple price at £18.50. Check out the shooting walking sticks page for more. Each of our thumb and shooting sticks are long enough for most people.

 Also in a handmade collection of shooting walking sticks is our crook and thumb walking canes.  Crook walking sticks have been used for farmers for years and also by stalkers on highland ground and hillsides. The thumb and crook sticks offer an excellent support when walking on steep ground.


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What Walking Sticks Handle to Use?

Choosing the correct walking sticks handle is one of the most important decisions when buying any walking sticks or canes. There are many different walking sticks handles to choose from, some are very comfortable and designed for heavy walking or long distance walking while others are made for show and are not mend to be used for walking sticks. All these handles will make a huge difference to your walking sticks and canes.

A few examples are: derby handle which are a very popular walking sticks handle that provide a very comfortable handle and very strong which makes this handle great for use of a walking aid to support your weight. Derby walking canes come in a large Varity of styles and ranges, pictured above in a carbon fibre walking canes with a derby handle, also available are patterned handle walking sticks also with a derby handle.

Many people think of Shepherds crook walking sticks as a farmers walking sticks but can be cut down and used for a excellent walking aid, the crook handles offers great comfort and are a very strongly made walking sticks made for heavy work. One disadvantage of crook handles is that they are very wide handles and some people may find this hard to use.

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Fitting Ferrules to Walking Sticks and Canes

The next step is to select and fit a ferrule to protect the bottom end of your walking sticks before putting the finishing touches to the walking canes.

For making walking sticks UK and Ireland three choices of material for the ferrule: metal, rubber or horn all can be fitted to all walking sticks. I shall deal with horn later because, to my mind, such a ferrule goes best with a walking sticks handle to match. As for rubber, whilst giving a good grip and being easy to fit (and replace) it always appears cumbersome to me. So, I am going to concentrate here on metal ferrules.

At its cheapest, a sawn-off piece of copper tubing will suffice, but it always looks just what it is. For the modest cost involved, a purpose-made, closed- end ferrule in dull brass is the answer, being both neat and durable.

Brass ferrules are available in a variety of sizes for different walking sticks, ranging from /8—1 inch (10—25mm), and can be purchased singly at game fairs and larger agricultural shows, or in quantities from the suppliers of walking sticks material.

Why use Walking Sticks

Walking sticks offer many different options for walkers or for someone how needs a walking aid, Walking sticks and canes cane be used for a walking aid, if you feel unstable while walking or standing. Also walking sticks may be used for trekking or hiking. If you have suffered an injury and you need to recover a walking sticks can be used for a very good support.

When you choose your walking sticks it is very important to choose the correct size of walking stick for you height, everyone has a different walking stick size. One way of doing this is to measure from your wrist to the ground and at 1 inch to this height; this will give you the correct height for your walking sticks and canes. Read through our walking stick size page for more information.

Walking sticks and canes come in a massive range but it is very easy to select the correct walking stick. Categories of walking sticks divide up different walking canes to make it easier for you to choose the correct one. If you need to go hiking the hiking walking sticks are your best option, for a farmer a shepherds crook would offer a very good walking stick and so on.

Walking Sticks and Canes for Weddings

Wedding walking sticks in the UK cover a wide range of walking sticks and canes. We get many requested for wedding walking canes, blackthorn is a popular walking stick for weddings, with a black shaft and round handles they really do stand out for the occasion. In our collectable walking sticks page there are many walking canes that are perfect for weddings. Picture left is a impressions stone walking cane that also comes in a white handle and black shaft. These walking canes are very light right and perfect for almost all weddings.

UK  formal dress with the correct walking sticks UK are admired around the world, given many people full of new ideas and styles to choose form. Silver top walking canes are the perfect match for weddings with the usually suit and tie and wedding dresses.

For all the animal lovers animal walking sticks come in a massive range and designs are one of the most popular walking sticks there is. The range goes on forever, but one type that tops the rest is the bronzed top walking canes, beautifully carved into dogs heads.

New app for Ash Tree Disease

A new app has been launched to help prevent the spread of the devastating disease that has wiped out million of trees across the UK and Europe.

Ash is a very important material for making walking sticks and canes; we use ash for making walking sticks just as much as any other type of timber and it would be a devastating blow to all walking sticks makers.

The disease is known as ash dieback, caused by the fungus Chalara fraxinea, the disease was first found in the UK last week raising fears that it might spread right through the UK.


Ash is used to make all types of walking sticks and walking canes; knob, crook and thumb walking sticks are all used to make ash-walking canes. One advantage of ash is the strength for the timber, which is excellent for making quality walking sticks. We also cut ash in 6 by 6 inch squares to make crook handles that are used in shepherd’s crook walking sticks.

One major checks sound be made is you find a ash tree with this disease, it is recognisable by lesions on their bark, dieback of leaves and the trees crown and also leaves turning brown. But one major problem is with autumn seasons make it harder to spot the disease on the ash trees.

The idea of the app is that if you see or if you think you have seen the disease you can submit photos and the location of the trees, then the app will send the information on the forestry commission.

More information can be found at www.guardian.co.uk

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Personalize Walking Sticks and Canes

Don't forget to personalize almost any walking sticks and canes in our UK store. For birthday gifts or Christmas gifts our name engravings are excellent ways of adding a personal touch to any walking sticks. Everyone loves a personal gift that is unique to them; with prices starting at £9.99 personal name engravings are very reasonable.

We offer two types of name engravings that work on almost all our walking sticks and canes. Silver disc nameplates are solid silver and any name with up to 18 letters can be added to the plate, the plate is then secured to the shank of the walking sticks with two small nails.

Walking Sticks with a Trout Design

LEAPING TROUT WALKING STICKS

We come now to the fourth walking canes subject in this ‘natural history’ class, and the dream 0f most UK fly fishermen — a well proportioned, leaping trout walking sticks! Represented as a fish, which has just left the water to take a fly, the handle is usually carved from ram’s horn walking sticks in inverted ‘U’ shape. I have to say, immediately, that fish do not naturally adopt such contorted attitudes when leaping for flies, but walking sticks makers have to he allowed some degree of artistic licence if we are to work within the twin constraints of available material and making a practical walking sticks.

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SUITABLE MATERIAL

Although it is perfectly possible to make a walking canes handle like this from wood, ram’s horn in the UK produces a much better effect. It does not require first- rate material when making the walking sticks; the most important criterion is that it contains sufficient solid material at its tip to allow this area, when squeezed flat, to be shaped into the trout’s tail.

For your trout walking sticks elect a horn, which will provide a minimum of 1lin (279mm) of workable material with a wall thickness, after cutting the walking sticks to length, approaching 3/sin (10mm) or more. If necessary, remove the quick and cut the horn to length before boiling for about half an hour, before fitting to the walking canes shank.

Essential Equipment for Making Walking Sticks

ESSENTIAL EQU IPMENT

The first pair of formers will be used to bring the horn close to the walking sticks UK handle shape we are seeking. They can be made from hard wood or metal to the dimensions. If you decide to make these, it is important to note that in the bottom former the rounded corners are not exactly the same shape. One has had less of the corner removed to accommodate the neck (or walking sticks shank) end of the horn; the other, which is much more rounded, will take the nose end.

The second pair of formers, which will be used to squeeze (i.e. bulk) the horn to make the neck of the walking sticks handle, can be made from a 3m (76mm) length of 11/4in (32mm) diameter metal pipe, sawn lengthways into two equal pieces (see Fig 5.3). To reinforce these pieces, I have welded a short section of steel sheet to the back of each; whilst this is not critical it does make them easier to walking sticks handle in the vice and also helps to prevent the pieces of pipe from splaying outwards when under pressure.

In both cases, the moulds I have described are not difficult or costly to make for walking sticks rams horn, but if you prefer to purchase something ready-made and more sophisticated, will be able to help. In addition to these moulds, you will also need an engineers’ vice, a 7 x 7in (178 x 178mm) metal plate, 1/4in (6mm) thick, a 7in (178mm) G-cramp and two Sin (127mm) G-cramps in order to exert and sustain the pressure needed to shape the horn until it has set. The sizes for the G-cramps are minimum sizes and are not critical.

New Blackthorn Walking Sticks Just In

Just in we have a new selection of blackthorn walking sticks, 13 new blackthorns to choose from. Each one is handmade in the UK. Some to choose from are the very popular knob style walking sticks, available in small medium and large knob handles. Knob handles are very popular are we trying to cover a large selection with different sizes and styles to choose from.

Also very popular blackthorn walking sticks are extra long sticks. Blackthorns are very hard to get and extra long blackthorns are every harder to find. We always get a lot of requested for long walking sticks and we hope to have a good selection for every one.


We supply blackthorns in a rotation basis, we produce and make up to 10 - 15 at a time and when they are sold we then have another 10 - 15 ready in stock to replace the last. The best way to get your perfect blackthorn walking sticks is to give us a email if you can't find the right one on our website.

When purchasing a blackthorn it is important to read the description on each one of our walking sticks, some blackthorns can be as heavy as 1.5 kg, which is very heavy and is not very suitable for long distance walking. There are more suitable walking sticks that are much more lighter and are perfect for long walking or hiking.

Bring Walking Sticks on Planes

We get many questions from international and UK buyers on walking sticks on planes, to the best of my knowledge most airports allow walking sticks on planes, to them its a walking aid not just a walking stick so you need it to get in and out of the aeroplane. Many people have told us they have now problems getting there walking sticks on planes and bringing them home, but to make sure we also advise to contact the airport before bringing one along.

The best type of walking sticks to bring on a plane are adjustable or folding walking sticks, this way when you get onto the plane you can fold the stick up and store it away. As for a long walking stick there might be the possibility that they wouldn't let you on with it, just because of its height they might refuse.

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Nordic Walking Sticks

Nordic walking is defined as fitness walking with two specially designed walking sticks. While our walkers, backpackers and hikers have used the basic concept for a long time, Marko Kantaneva only published the sport of Nordic walking in 1997. The concept of using the walking sticks was the basic off-season ski training activity. This included the description of the actual exercise, the instructions on how the sport was done, the physiological reason for doing it, and the walking sticks needed to do it.

In the year of the publication on the Nordic walking sticks were produced and made by Exel. The name Nordic walking was well known by 1999 thought Exel. Exel is a very well known company with introducing the carbon poles to the skiing industry. Exel was also the first company to use trainers to teach people how to use the Nordic walking sticks in the right way.

Compared to normal walking Nordic walking involves using force on the walking sticks with each stride. When using the Nordic walking sticks you use your whole body and receive more fitness which you don’t get when normal walking, like the chest, lats, triceps, biceps, shoulder, abdominal, spinal and other core muscles which then may led to a increase in heart rate at a given pace. Nordic can produce more than 46% increase in energy consumption not like normal walking with out any walking sticks.

Nordic walking poles are significantly shorter than those recommended for cross-country skiing. Using poles of incorrect length may add stress to the walker's knees, hips and/or back, diminishing the benefits of walking with poles. Nordic walking poles come in both one-piece, non-adjustable shaft versions, and telescoping two-piece twist-locking adjustable length versions. Nordic walking poles feature grips with special Nordic walking straps - a kind of fingerless glove, allowing power transmission through the strap and eliminates the need to tightly grasp the pole grips.

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How to Making Buffalo Walking Sticks

Working with buffalo horn for making walking sticks – buffalo horn is a very attractive material and two main colours, one is jet black and the other is a multi coloured. Jet-black buffalo horn is mainly black but can have a white and greys colours coming thought on the horn, this only adds to the handle and its look.

The coloured buffalo horn has more characters than the black with more colours like greens and browns, the colours are very dark and look excellent with a very attractive look with added to your walking sticks, its hard to find the right coloured horn but when carved out the colours run smoothly with each other rather like the colours of a duck. Mostly this looks better in large shepherds crook walking sticks.

The coloured horn is also much more softer than the jet-black and much more easy to work with. But both types are very dense so when making walking sticks from them you need a concentrated heat to bend the horn. Most horn that is purchase in the UK has no inner core like rams horn so this very useful when making walking sticks from them, They also only have one plane unlike rams horn which bends in many ways, This also makes it easier to make the horn suitable for making walking sticks.

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Walking Sticks - Rams Horn Making

 The lands of ram's horns for walking sticks-rams horns gives off an impression of being exceptionally strong, unbending, bone enjoyed substance not divergent to prong. In any case in actuality there are both actually unexpected. Where the tusk is skeletal substance rams horn has more in a similar manner as a fingernail. It holds a heart of snappy, which may enlarge and taper for up to 1/3 of the horn. Whilst drying the horn for a month or thereabouts then afterward giving it a sharp tap in opposition to the edge of a workbench can uproot the speedy, it abandons a significant cavity available for making walking sticks.

A significant part of the shell of the horn will be tossed when making walking sticks, absolutely little rams horn where the thickness of the shell at its base may just be 3mm, In more advanced in years rams it might be 3 times thicker preferable for value walking sticks especially full size evildoer walking sticks.

An additional recognizing property of ram's horn is that is simple to twist when warmed, while tusk is bone and lack the capacity to be straightened or curve to make walking sticks. Certain rams horn have a triangle shape on the base which make it demanding to cause for to be walking sticks, restricted going with this is to crush it following warming into a more round area.

Excellent new stock in

Our new red floral and fruit arrangement walking sticks are humbler than looked for folding which's intimates they can fit into moreover all bags and rucksacks. There fabulous layout wrinkles up into 5 sections and into a size of 24cm x 13cm, which is incredible for walking sticks to fold up so minor, each of our folding walking sticks has a unlimited wrist strap with each walking stay.

Moving forward to our economy folding walking sticks, valued at £14.99 they are our cheapest folding walking sticks, completion with an imposing-commitment flexible ferrule and a wrist strap the recommended walking sticks are eminent worth and idea for £14.99. Also our economy walking sticks are overlay up with 4 parts and fold up to a size of 30cm x 14cm.

Moreover consolidated in our folding walking sticks are floral idea and geometric destination sticks, the aforementioned are much the same as the better walking sticks unequivocally for a little flight in there arrange. Which there incredible lightweights blueprint at 300 grams and aluminium shaft each folding walking sticks are so light and effortless to move in a rucksack and handbag.

Folding walking sticks may be used as a part of an expansive number of differentiating courses, for basic walking like normal or light walking, dress walking sticks for weddings or tea social occasions, they fit in so well with dresses and are a most have added items for incalculable dress occasions. Sufficient walking, the recommended folding walking sticks are completely hearty and uphold truly important weight and irrevocable essentially endlessness furnished that they are dealt with precisely, we request clients not to leave there walking sticks outside for broadened periods of time were they may rust, unvaryingly deal with them in the occasion that they get wet or smeared. It's so noteworthy to deal with all walking sticks to get the most terrific out of each of them.

Blackthorn Walking Sticks

More handles are our L shape or derby style handle walking sticks, again caused for to be walking with but some are truly great unequivocally likr the handle walking sticks so verify yout peruse the weight on every depiction of each walking sticks. The aforementioned walking sticks mightn't be an attractive as the handle handles but might be more convenient when walking with giving you more back. Trekking style handle walking sticks are moreover essential for climbing or trekking, above all go in imposing lenghts about 50 creep or something like that making the fantastic for hilling ground or steep slopes, walking sticks similar to the trekking walking sticks are exceptionally solid as blackthorn walking sticks are known for there strengh.

Additional extended blackthorn walking sticks are mainstream but particularly no picnic to get extended walking sticks that are straight and not to large for climbing or trekking. Overwhelmingly extended walking sticks pitch out particularly briskly but we consistently keep a few in stock. Walking sticks that are extended are significant for a considerable number of things regardless of the fact that its unequivocally for walking were the walking sticks could be kept on the shank and when walking on steep rises you can utilize the handle for additional uphold, and absolutely flexible walking sticks.

A different utility we utilize is an etching utility were the walking sticks are engraved with a name or date of your liking. The engraved walking sticks turn truly alluring and toward a private touch to your walking sticks .

Sourcing Walking Sticks

To say to identify it tricky to find the right walking sticks here is a minor cut, which gives you a thought of, were to look and what to search for. Stream unfilled spaces are an essential place to consider different varieties of walking sticks, is this movie every last trace of the walking sticks were found in the same area on the currents edge. Hazel develop practically all over the place in current monetary institutions but blackthorns just develop in certain puts, here on the film the blackthorns are just 10 yards for the waterway and have been developing there for 10's of years. Its exceptionally well developed over and you wouldn't know that there their unless you had a great look around. These blackthorns could cause immaculate to be walking sticks, but unless you take care of them it gets harder and harder to cut them, when we cut blackthorns we attempt and keep them open, blackthorns have a tendency to develop on top of one another and tangle themselves up, so when you would it be able to's preferred cut distant any extensions and open the trees up. In a couple of years you will recognize a colossal divergence when searching for the walking sticks you require.

In the motion picture you will see brand new development limbs developing for a past cut tree, it might take an extended time for blackthorns but sometime they’d will cause flawless handle to be walking sticks, and provided that you sit down a cut of any extensions that are getting in they way you will get an exceptional few walking sticks for the one tree.

Hazels are fully better; they develop decent and straight and take just a couple of years to develop into great walking sticks. Junior hazels that develop for the base of more senior hazel trees are immaculate for great straight shanks for walking sticks.

Staghorn Handles

In the UK the larger piece of horn for stag horn walking sticks originate from for the benefit of species-red, fallow, roe or sika. Red are the most regular and sika the minimum. All deer shed the prongs every year and these give the materials for making walking sticks. When a tusk is shed characteristically the focus on which its connected to the head legitimately portrayed, as the coronet remains sound and could be utilized as a magnetic offer on any handle.

Infrequently a humble bulge of skeletal substance is connected to the coronet and this is far better as it furnishes a chance to cut a figure or insignia for it on the handle for your walking sticks. To get and horn in the UK for your walking sticks is not demanding subsequent to the are great numbers is just about all parts of the UK. Depending on if you cannot get an origin nearby we additionally offer prongs above all red deer. The majority of the horn we advertise is suitable for a considerable number of walking sticks, every horn is check so its not to humble or not to vast and all parts of the horns might be utilized to make walking sticks.

Recall tusk is a bone and can't be twist to make a handle of walking sticks, the heart of the tusk is chiefly delicate permeable material called essence, this runs thought the essential stem and its shoots call tines which is utilized to make walking sticks. Depending on if you do reduce the close of a tine of index it of you will quite briskly run into the substance and ruining the walking sticks look. Restricted of blanket up the substance its to place a top over the closures and document it adjust. 

Moulds

There are varies pieces of equipment used to shape rams horns for walking sticks, particularly the part which involves bulking the neck or crown or the rams horn walking sticks. Many walking sticks makers have different ways of shaping rams horn, with the aid of a car jack in a frame, can be squeezed together under much more pressure than a vice.

One jig is the picture on the right, just a flat piece of steel welded to steel plate, very simple but very good and there are many more designs of walking sticks handles to choose from, you can at a turn up for the tip of the walking sticks or this can be done later.

Another jig is moulds, when you insert the rams horn into the moulds and place the moulds in a vice then squeeze them together, the moulds for the walking sticks handle are 2 pieces of steel, one with a U cut out of it and the other piece of steels fits into the U cut and the handle is placed in the middle, when you use the vice it brings the horn together.

Fitting Caps

Most thumb waling sticks have a spacer or collar between the handle and shank. The hardest part of the thumb walking sticks is getting a suitable V handle and a shank to match. One easier solution is to get a great thumb stick handle with a perfect V and then fit it to a suitable shank that really matches the handle.

The ranges of suitable handles for thumb walking sticks are wood, antler, horn even nylon can be used to good effect. I have seen a V handle for one tree and a shank from the type of tree and then jointed together with a collar or spacer covering the joint made from antler to make excellent walking sticks. Antlers themselves can make a suitable V handle that can be trimmed and fitted any shank. Those from roe deer make lightweight walking sticks while red deer make more robust walking sticks with a much more heavy handle.

Next step for your walking sticks - when the antler has been trimmed then the trimmed tines have to be capped with a horn or antler.  Buffalo horn is a attractive cap, when the cap has been fitted to the tines its then has to be trimmed and fitted to the antler. Once this is done you can then drill the shank and handle to fit each other an place a threaded bar into the handle first, if you want your walking sticks to stand out before you join the handle and shank together you can place a spacer or collar in between, its simple just drill the spacer the same as the handle and the shank and then place all together, the handle spacer and shank, I like to fit the spacer after you glue the joints. Then you simple spacer and caps have transformed your walking stick, and the same can be done to all your walking sticks.

Pre-shaped handles

Pre-Shaped walking sticks handles are perfect for making your own walking sticks, and with some of our walking stick handle's they only have a outline of the handle cut out and the rest of the job is up to you, this makes your walking sticks unique to you with your own time and design put into handle you make. Ranging from traditional from Shepherds crook handles to the very popular knob handle we try are best to offer a wide range or handles to suit everybody’s taste and design, we also supply shanks for walking sticks which you will need if you want to attach you handle to something. Our shanks are excellent quality with natural materials like Hazel and Blackthorn to machine made walnut and mahogany, all can be got in different highs and thickness to suit the walking sticks handle you have, each handle you make is different and sometimes its better to make you handle first then try to get a suitable shank or get a shank and made the handle to suit it which I think is a much better idea, you give you something to go by and you know what to stay to.

Antique Walking Sticks

Antique walking sticks cover a large range of walking sticks, the hardest part of antique walking sticks is getting them in perfect condition but for stick to be over 100 years old you can inspect a bit damage. Most of our antique walking sticks are in very good condition we don't like selling damaged sticks.

We can also repair old walking sticks that need a bit of T.L.C, most can be repaired with on much cost but you always get one that is beyond repair, if you need some advice just give us a call.

Silver antique walking sticks are very popular but most come at a price. We also to keep some quality silver canes in stock and getting the right silver walking sticks is very hard to find, nobody wants a damaged silver handle or collar, when the handle or collar are full of dents its almost impossible to repair.

Gold handle walking sticks are even more difficult to get, most people like to hold onto there antique canes because they have be pasted thought there family. The downside to gold walking sticks is the massive price tag with each of them even if there are fully damaged.

Sourcing Walking Sticks

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If you find it hard to source the correct walking sticks here is a small clip, which gives you an idea of, were to look and what to look for. River blanks are a great place to find all types of walking sticks, is this video all the walking sticks were found in the same location on the rivers edge. Hazel grow almost everywhere along river banks but blackthorns only grow in certain places, here on the video the blackthorns are only 10 yards for the river and have been growing there for 10's of years. Its very well grown over and you wouldn't know that there their unless you had a good look around. These blackthorns would make perfect walking sticks, but unless you look after them it gets harder and harder to cut them, when we cut blackthorns we try and keep them open, blackthorns have a tendency to grow on top of each other and tangle themselves up, so when you can its better cut away any branches and open the trees up. In a couple of years you will find a massive difference when looking for the walking sticks you need.

In the video you will see new growth branches growing for a previous cut tree, it may take a long time for blackthorns but someday they’d will make perfect knob walking sticks, and if you take your time a cut of any branches that are getting in they way you will get a good few walking sticks for the one tree.

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Survival Gear and Walking Sticks

Along with our wide range of walking sticks and canes we have a small selection of survival gear or camping gear, this gear includes a clothing range like gloves, caps, hand warmer, etc. which are excellent accessories for our walking sticks. The gear is designed especially for walkers, hikers, and trekkers. Etc. When walking in bad or good weather something as simple as a cap or glove is all you need to get you home without getting wet or cold.

Our food and beverage range is just as helpful when walking or camping with your walking sticks, flasks and drinking bottles are all you need when on long walks, simple and affordable gear to help you when walking and trekking. Pan sets are perfect got camping and walking with there easy fold up design they fit so easily to any rucksack.

We have an excellent offer with a stalkers kit, which includes an extra long, gun rest walking stick for our thumb walking sticks range and two knives, priced at £79.99 reduced from £120.00. We also have a small range of knives that are designed for camping and survival, knives like small multi purpose and large 4-inch knives for any job.

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Shape the handle

If you are using a block of timber or a one piece walking sticks its much the same idea, when the walking stick or blank handle is seasoned you need to square of the edges, so you have a square blank to work with which then you can transfer your template onto the blank. If you need a crook blank we can give you a full size blank to work with. The shepherds crook walking sticks handle is just the same as the cardigan handle, the same work that is involved in each of them. When you transfer the template to the walking sticks blank it is now time to cut out the blank with a jigsaw or handsaw.

Don't follow to close to the line of the template, if you make any mistakes its to late to do anything, the rest of timber can be rasped off later. Just like the cardigan walking sticks it’s now time to use a rasp to remove the rest of the unwanted timber. Round the edges of the handle to make the handle of the walking stick completely round leave no flats edges and keep the whole handle round. The smoother and rounder the handle it makes for a much more balanced walking sticks.

Wooden Crook and Market Walking Sticks:

Shepherds Crook or Market walking sticks can be made from many materials but there are 2 opinions, whether to make it a one piece or two piece walking sticks, one piece is a handle and shaft made from the one piece of timber, with piece is a shaft and handle made seperately. Both types of walking sticks both look very well when completed with each on having its supporter and critics.

A good starting point is to identify the differance between a market and crook walking sticks, once this was quite straight forward with a shepherds crook was very much by sheep farmers while a market walking stick more embellished product, a walking sticks showen off at markets and special occasions. Over the years the simple differance has become blurred.

A simpler way to distinguish between them these days is by the lenght of the shaft. Remember the orginal purpose, crook walking sticks will always be longer than market walking sticks, with 52 inch for crook walking sticks and 48 inch for market walking sticks.

Blackthorn Walking Sticks

The famous blackthorn walking sticks have been a great seller for us, we have a large selection of blackthorn walking sticks starting from the very popular knob walking sticks to the derby style and hiking style handle walking sticks.

Each of our blackthorn walking sticks are genuine the real thing, we get our stock from local blackthorn trees each piece is carefully selected and any walking sticks that are to small are lefted for anther year until they fully develop into a great walking sticks.

Blackthorns are very rare and extremely hard to get in large numbers, we always cut new stock every year and they always sell out before the end of the season. We keep our walking sticks is a cycle so when a selection are ready for cutting new fresh stock is lefted in its place. This way we always have a good selection of blackthorn walking sticks.

Blackthorn walking sticks are not naturally black but a deep brown almost black colour with knots on the shank, we provide a black treatment where the blackthorn is dryed black which just the walking sticks a deep black colour which looks very natural unlike paint which only shows up the walking sticks to much making them look very new and not natural, on each blackthorn walking sticks we provide this service just click on any of our blackthorn walking sticks and all the infomation will be on the page before you purchase your walking sticks.

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New Walking Sticks

Here we have a new selection of Italian walking sticks and canes. The great thing about these walking sticks that they are very rare and not very many walking sticks companys have these walking sticks and canes. You will try a lot of websites before you find the same quality of walking sticks.

We are sure you will find something here you like, in this selection we cover a large varity of walking sticks from animal heads to crystal walking sticks and canes. Swarovski Crystal is a amazing walking sticks, the price is a bit high but its pure quality walking sticks, each piece has real swarovski elements a quality make. Each piece also have there own bag or sleeve to store away your walking sticks.

Moving on the the Imitation Precious material walking sticks and canes, again there are italian made with quality and excellent piece. Also our rose handles walking sticks are great for a gift and we have seen alot of interest in them because of there unusual style, expertly carved walking sticks we are sure you will surprise someone with these walking sticks.

Animal handles are always very popular but these italian made walking sticks are even better than any other animal handle walking sticks, we have wooden carved walking sticks very well priced at £24.99 and moving onfrom them we have resin handles walking sticks also carved into animal handles, the stand out animal handle is our grey hound showen above a excellent walking sticks, very well carved and really stands out from the rest of the walking sticks.

Making a Whistle

Here is how make your were own whistle out of a walking sticks handle or as a small wooden whistle, the rules apply to any whistle. For a whistle that is carved into walking sticks, it takes suitable walking sticks for the job and not all walking sticks can have a whsitle carved into them. The piece of wood you use for the whistle needs to be more than 10mm anout 20mm or more for comfort.

Start by drilling a 10mm hole into the walking sticks handle as showen in the picture, drill about 38mm into the handle and try and keep the hole as straight as you can. Next is to cut a notch out of the walking sticks handle, start by marking 13mm back from the end of the whistle showen on the picture, and cut a straight cut from this mark until you reach the hole you have drilled from before.

Next is to tidy up the notch with a sharp chisel of knife, the more tidy it is the better the sound of the whistle, usually buffalo horn or staghorn are a lot better for making whistle because they are a harder material and make a much better sound. Next cut a 39mm lenght by 10 diameter dowel, shave off almost half the diameter to create a flat surface along the lenght of the dowel. This will be inserted into the walking sticks handle where the hole was drilled.

The final step is to insert the dowel flat side up into the hole until it reaches the notch. Test the whistle and shave off a little more if neccessary. When you are happy with the sound of the whistle glue the dowel in place, once the glue has set cut off the rest of the dowel level with the front of the whistle. This makes all walking sticks stand out, and the great thing is that you always have a whistle near by when you need it.

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Gift Packs

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Check out our new gift packs for someone special or a christmas gift. Each gift pack is specially selected each of our categories to give a excellent gift pack for everyone.

Some examples are our hiking walking sticks pack which is special designed for outdoor ventures, with one hiking walking sticks with a adjustable and anti shock shaft designed just for outdoor ventures. Our hiking walking sticks are also excellent quality. This pack also includes a small survival pack and first aid kit, each small kit has a massive range of must have accessories when hiking or trekking. This kit is perfect for anyone envolved on long walks or hikers.

We also have a stalkers pack which has everything for all stalkers, a extra long Y shape handle walking sticks which is special design as a gun rest with its extra long shaft its ideal for small and tall people. The walking sticks are also walking friendly with a lightweight design. This walking sticks kit also includes a 4 inch skinning knife and a 3 in 1 poacher knife with a straight knife, saw and gut hook, combined with our skinning knife its the ultimate stalkers kit.

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Cutting the Walking Stick

Its now time to cut the walking sticks to your desired length before fitting the ferrule. If the walking sticks are been talor made for someone you should involve them in the decision making. Hold the walking sticks and note the angle of the elbow, if it is bend it is to long if the elbow is straight the walking sticks are already to small. What you are aiming for is something that is faciliate the process of walking. A comfortable walking sticks is a extenision of your hand, and when you using it yopu shouldn't be aware that it is there. One which is to long will become tiring to use, whilst a walking sticks that is to small will fail to provide a neccessaery lift.

If the walking sticks are not meant for any one, a standard height is about 36 inch. While this may be to long for most people it is easy to cut them to size. What ever length you decide to cut the walking sticks at remember to cut them with a fine tooth saw and protect the bark of the walking sticks when in the vice. Then you can fit the ferrule and varish the waling sticks.

When you have mastered the technique of converting a round branch into a sqaure block the varity of walking sticks handle which can be fashionable is almost unlimited.


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Shaping the Handle

Have a look at the walking sticks  handle which is starting to develop, how does it look is it symmetrical, is it likely to fit into the hand. You have to be satisfied for this is the final opportunity you have to make final adjustments before removing the waste wood still remaining on the walking sticks handle. Althought the bottom line fo the handle has already been determined, the top line can still be be extended if you think it will produce a more comfortable walking sticks. Whilst it is unusually for the handle to be cut parrallel to the walking sticks shank. it quite acceptable for the top line to be beyond the bottom, thus producing an angled cut to the end. Once you have made your decision use a panel saw to remove the remainging waste. You should now hold the walking sticks upright as if you going to use it.

What remains is to shape the handle into something that feels good and looks good. You should be trying to produce a handle which in cros section should be in the shaoe of a inverted egg, and in plan tapers slightly from the end to the top of the walking sticks shank. For your first attempt on the walking sticks its better to taper ina form of a wedge. With more experience you ca  develop more interesting elongated bell shape. It isn''t that much more difficult to make but it produces a lot better looking walking sticks.

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Drawing the Handle Cardigan Stick

Next is to draw the handle of the cardigan walking sticks - Now we need transfer the outline of the handle using the template on the last post. I usually cut my templates from plastic cut outs or cardboard. Plastic is more durable than cardboard but cardboard will do it there is nothing else. Having trimmed nad cut the template out for your walking sticks, positon it at a right angle to the walking sticks shank, hold it firmly and draw around it in pencil. It is not necessary to draw on both sides of the handle. If you happy with way the handles looks to the walking sticks shank, you can start to cut out some of the surplus wood.

Cutting out the handle on your walking sticks - if you have access to a jigsaw or bandsaw do not cut around the outline in one go, if you do so and are dissatisfied with the result shape you are lefted with very little room to manoeuvre. Only remove the wood on the bottom of the walking sticks handle first, make a series of cuts at 1/4 intervals parallel with the shank stopping just short of the line.

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Know your Material

Having cut trimmed and seaon your walking sticks, its now time to start work on the walking sticks. Look critically at the walking sticks you about to start shaping on like a woodcarver or sculture would do. Handle it and imagine what the finished piece should look like. This should give you a feel for the walking sticks, and see in you mind what it should look like. Its a important stage in the walking sticks making.

Initial Shaping the walking sticks - the next step is to convert the round branch of the handle into a flat regtangular block, see picture up above. To do this cut two longitudinal cuts on the walking sticks handle with a small axe or panel saw as showen n picture above. This should be parellel to the walking sticks shank and should be made so that the they produce a block with a maxium diameter of 2 inch. The lenght and depth of the block with be determined by the shape of the branch. At this stage there no more work to be done on the block any surplus wood will be removed as we start the shape of the walking sticks handle.

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Cardigan Walking Sticks

Cardigan Walking Sticks - the critical thing in making this walking sticks is a suitable shank growing from the a branch at a appropriate angle. If the angle is to wide or to narrow, whilst is may be suitable for other walking sticks but not for cardigan walking sticks.

What we are looking for ia a suitable shank for your walking sticks like on the picture to the left. With such a ahank it will be relatively easy to find sufficent length, width and depth to work with at the point where the potential shank meets the branch of the tree.

In thoery a cardigan walking sticks can be made from any tree which offers a confirmation of a branch and a shank. Most cardigan walking sticks i make come from hazel wood. Not only does hazel have all what we are looking for but the conbinations of a attrative bark and grain on the finished handle are difficult to beat. They only other thing to look for is that ponit A to B on the picture lefted should taper slightly(from A to B). The figure 1.7 is not to scale, if you need the full length give us a email.

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Colouring Techniques

Staining walking sticks -  if you decide to stain walking sticks its always better to try it out on a sample or cut of  piece first. It will always be different from the colour showen on the tin. Its better to start with a lighter stain first for your walking sticks and then darken it, if neccessary apply more coats, than to produce something that is immediately darker than you wanted. Remember stains quickly penetrate the surface of raw wood and can't be easily wipes off if it is not what you expected. So experiment before you start the real walking sticks.

Fuming walking sticks - The traditional method of fuming is another method of colouring wood. It takes longer and it may not suit the impatient, but the results can be effective. Fuming walking sticks requires an infusion of bark peelings and boiling water to be made. This when cold is wiped over the peeled walking sticks. The walking sticks should then be suspended in a suitable lenght of plastic rainwater pipe with a polythene bag tied in placed on the top end to seal it. Postition the pipe so it is resting vertical, place a small container of ammonia below the bottom end and leave the walking sticks to stew in the ammonia fumes. Check the progess after a couple of hours, and when the colouration is to your statisfaction remove the walking sticks form the ammonia. Leave it to dry out completely then gently rub in linseed oil with 0000 wire wool to bring out the finish. If you going to try this colouring technique only do so outdoors, and carefully observe the manufactors instructions for handling and disposing of the ammonia. You walking sticks are finished.

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Finish the walking sticks

You also may add a finish to the walking sticks to enhance and to protect it. Start by removing any grime or dirt on the walking sticks. Using fine 0000 grade steel wool dipped in warm soapy water, lightly rub down the walking sticks, then wipe it clean leave to dry for a half an hour. Apply a coat of sanding sealer, sparingly using a cloth dipped in liquid, leave thsi to dry fro at least 2 hours then apply the first coat of yatch varish diluted with white spirit(50:50) with a cloth or brush, the secret is not to apply to much on the walking sticks and avoid introducing foreign bodies like fluff and hair. Leave to try in a warm room for overnight then come back and gently use 0000 grade steel wool. Wipe the the walking sticks clean being carful to remove any steel wool and then apply the second coat, this time with undiltued varish. Leave to dry as before, wipe clean and apply the third coat of undiltued varish. Once this have dryed the walking sticks are ready for use.

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Cutting the walking stick to size

Next is to cut the walking sticks to your required height. Remember the old carpenters maim: measure twice and cut once. For the job i clamp the walking sticks into the vice, having first protected the bark with a lenght of plastick piping about 3 inch length x 1 inch diameter, plit in two lenghtways around the appropriate section. Providing the bark is protected any means of holding it steady will do. I use a hacksaw which is finer than a tenon saw which leaves a fine cut and helps dtop the bark spliting, but any fine tooth saw will do. That is your walking sticks cut to size.