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Welcome to bladeforums! If you like axes and tomahawks, you'll LOVE it here! :D

Nice work, by the way!
 
DARNED FILTER here at work!!!
Now I have to wait until later at home to see cherokee's pictures!!!

cherokee, I have done a bit with walking sticks... interested in looking at your pictures to see if they are similar/different than mine...
Some of mine were bought, one I made/stained & coated...

I like tomahawks and walking sticks, and separate from this forum, I like firearms, too...
Not much into knives, although I have a decent 'collection' of those as well...
 
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Got the idea because I like to walk in the woods and there's alway a bunch of stray/wild dogs in the woods around here in Ga. Don't worry about it with one of these. I cut the heads out of old axes and polish them. For some reason I'm starting to get attracted to old axes and hatchets. I love firearms and that is my main area of collecting.
Tony J
 
scotchleaf, yes I turned the sticks on a wood lathe, really just learning to use a lathe but just didn't wasnt to turn chair legs or something, so I made the walking sticks. I had to hand carve the ends to fit the axe heads. The axe heads were the hardest to make.
 
I made a walking 'staff' a while back... it is just plain round, 1 inch in diameter, and 5 feet long... I used a 'stain' I invented called 'Charcoal Wash' stain, then coated it with semi-gloss indoor/outdoor polyurathane... don't have a full-length picture... I should take one, though... the stain gave a tri-color effect...

My two other walking sticks were bought... a Cold Steel Stainless Head City Stick... and a Cold Steel Micarta Head City Stick... sorry, I gotta get some pictures of those, also...

I also had Cold Steel's African Walking Stick and Walkabout XL, but did not like them as much, so I gave the 1st to my son, the other to a friend...
 
Tony, my name is Ron...

Here are the two walking sticks I told about earlier...

1st is a Cold Steel Stainless Head City Stick...

ColdSteelStainlessHeadCityStick.jpg


2nd is a Cold Steel Micarta Head City Stick...

ColdSteelMicartaHeadCityStick.jpg


Here is my 'Charcoal Wash' Walking Staff (1st time shown here)...

CharcoalWashWalkingStaff.jpg


Here is a close-up of the tri-color effect of the 'Charcoal Wash' stain (also the 1st time shown here since I re-applied the indoor/outdoor semi-gloss polyurathane)...

CharcoalWashWalkngStaffFinish.jpg
 
cherokee TJ those would be traditionally called a fokos. yours look better than any i have seen before:thumbup:

Glock that charcoal finish came out very nice!
 
Ron, love that charcoal finish, would like one of those cold steel heads to put on a turned cocabola stick.
 
cherokee... the compliment means a lot coming from someone who has a lot of obvious talent!!! I hope you like our forum, it is the best I have found on tomahawks, axes, hatchets and walking sticks/staffs... thanks again, sir...
 
Thank you also, this was the first time I'd tried to do something like this and wasn't sure if something anybody else would appreciate them or not. Will post future projects too. And Crossada, I like the sound of fokas, sounds sort of nasty.
 
cherokee tj...Nice looking work ...........
Glock17JHP... the charcoal wash is good lookin....
 
Brother Dusty,

The weird thing is that the 'Charcoal Wash' finish looks different on different wood types... you saw how it looked on the 'Walking Staff', but look at how it turned out on my Cold Steel Frontier Hawk... same finish, same application method...

In case you cannot tell from the picture below, the finish is one color (not 'tri-color'), and is the same approximate color as coffee beans...

ColdSteelFrontierHawk3.jpg
 
geronimo, I cut, ground and polished them out of old axe heads I picked up at flea markets and such. To fit them to a walking stick staft or smaller haft I reduced the size of the haft hole by welding in metal and reshaping to the conture of the axe.
 
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