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.