Stickmaking: A Complete Course

by Andrew Jones, Clive George

Overview

This ultimate, comprehensive guide explains how to make a wide range of traditional walking sticks, market sticks and crooks. Includes sourcing and seasoning wood, adapting material, shaping handles, fitting collars, decorating, and finishing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781565233683
Publisher:	Fox Chapel Publishing
Publication date:	04/05/2008
Edition description:	Revised Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Andrew Jones makes a wide range of sticks. An uncle cultivated his interest in making sticks and encouraged him to enter his work in local craft shows. He lives near Lampeter.

Clive George's life-long interest in stickmaking and a fortuitous meeting, led him to collaborate in the production of this book.

Table of Contents

Introduction 5 Woods used in Stickmaking 8 CHAPTER ONE Finding, Cutting & Seasoning Sticks 15 CHAPTER TWO Thumbsticks 21 Project: A Natural Thumbstick 22 CHAPTER THREE Simple, One-Piece Walking Sticks 31 Project: Cross-Head Stick 32 Project: Knob Stick 34 Project: Round-Handle Stick 37 Project: First Steps in Carving 41 CHAPTER FOUR Cardigan Sticks 45 Project: One-Piece Cardigan Stick 46 CHAPTER FIVE Wooden Crooks & Market Sticks 57 Project: One-Piece Wooden Market Stick 58 Project: One-Piece Wooden Crook 61 Project: Two Piece Wooden Market Stick 66 Project: Two-Piece Wooden Crook 70 CHAPTER SIX Ram's Horn & Antler Walking Sticks 77 Project: Cardigan Stick in Ram's Horn 78 Project: Cross-Head Stick in Antler 87 CHAPTER SEVEN Market Sticks & Crooks in Buffalo Horn 95 Project: Buffalo Horn Market Stick 99 Project: Buffalo Horn Crook 104 CHAPTER EIGHT Ram's Horn Crooks 109 Project: Ram's Horn Crook 110 CHAPTER NINE Carved Sticks in Wood & Horn 125 Project: Dog's Head Market Stick 126 Project: Carving a Pheasant's Head 132 Project: Carving a Leaping Trout 136 CHAPTER TEN Medley of Sticks 143 Project: Fancy Thumbsticks 144 Project: Half-Head Handle 150 Project: A Cow Horn Handle 153 Project: Barley Twist Novelty 156 The Gallery 159 Suppliers 170 Glossary 172 Index 174 About the Authors 176