Octagonal Hiking Staff

$20.00 doesn't seam that high to me, but I just got a shipment of blade steel in that was 8' long. The shipping was over %50 of the value of the steel.
 
Eight feet of blade steel is going to end up being a lot of knives. I presume you are going to be charging money for them and not giving them away? A six feet long stick, at the end of the day, is going to be a six feet long stick. I'm not cutting it up to make several pair of nunchaku that I am going to sell off. So, there is a bit of difference in the comparison. :D
 
aw jest clamp a nice piece of hickory rod into a couple of vises, and run a plane down the wood until you get a nice octagonal shape.....you get what you want, for less than the shipping costs, and its something you can say you made by hand....:thumbup:

btw, why octagonal?
 
If I could do that in a two bedroom apartment, I would! :D

Octagonal and Hexagonal look so much better. ;)
 
Yeah, I could mount the vises that I don't currently own to the f*ckin' park bench outside. :jerkit:
 
You pay an arm and a leg every month for this place and they pissbag if you so much as change a flat tire in the parking lot. They would shit a brick if they saw someone actually sanding a closet dowel outside. :rolleyes:
 
i have a six foot octagonal staff made by a local craftsman out of some sort of really dense african hard wood. it is functionally and visually beautiful a pleasure to use.
 
When I was in college I made a few rokushakubo. Signing up for a wood shop class is a possible way to have access to a shop, but not economical unless you are making a lot of things.

For my project I bought a plank of purple heart and the owner of the wood shop offered to cut the wood into octagonal staves for $8.00 each, and the plank was around $50.00. I declined since it was for my project and cut them myself. If there is a wood shop around there they might be willing to cut the wood for you.

I've been told that it is common for people in the SCA to make and sell wooden and metal weapons, so that could be another option if you only want one.
 
I feel your pain regarding the shipping charges, I've seen some dumb*sses on ebay who want to charge $35 to ship ONE 4 ounce slipjoint!Thats regular post without insurance!
:eek:
And then there are sellers like the guy i bought a 2 foot long machete from, only $10 shipping from California to Newfoundland! Thats a looooong ways to go, check a map Newfoundland is closer to Ireland than it is to Michigan, let alone California.

Went halfs with a friend on a Cutlery shoppe order last year. I used to do a lot of business with them.
They charged $100 shipping! WTF? and it still took over 3 weeks to get here.
Will never do business with them again.

Really anytime i can keep shipping charges $20 or under i'm a happy camper.

I bought a long dowel (6 footish) from a local hardware store a while back.
Making a quarterstaff out of it, just need to add some endcaps and its done.
with my bench vise (attached to my desk actually), palm sander and some heavy grit sandpaper i could have octagonal-ized it, might try that next time.
Its amazing how much woodworking you can do with basic tools in a bedroom.
I've refinished guitars and gun-stocks and rehandled knives in my bedroom.
Can get dusty though.I'm single though so theres no-one to complain,lol.

Don Can you ship it using USPS?
 
WOW, I ordered a lot of stuff from The Cutlery Shoppe from around 1989-1990 up until around 1996 or so...I don't think I want to do business with them again if they are doing that to people.

As far as USPS to ship the staff, I doubt if that would prove a good way to go. It's quite possible that if anyone could break a six feet long piece of hickory in transit and then refuse to pay any insurance on it, it would be the USPS.
 
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