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Hello,
I want to make a (magic-esque) staff complete with a crystal adorning the top and decorative carving. I face a couple of challenges however, that I feel probably have simple solutions to them that I simply am not aware of.
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. I won't have the budget for power tools, so I will have to make things work with hand tools.
Thank you,
Isaac
I want to make a (magic-esque) staff complete with a crystal adorning the top and decorative carving. I face a couple of challenges however, that I feel probably have simple solutions to them that I simply am not aware of.
- I want the staff to end up being roughly 70 inches tall (so maybe 67 inches or so length of wood, with a 3-4 inch crystal on top). The majority of walking sticks tend to be around 40-55 inches from what I have been able to tell, and as a result so have the walking stick blanks I have found. Additionally the final diameters of the stick will probably need to be around 2 inches at the top, and taper to around an inch for the bottom.
- I have discovered through reading about wood carving that some woods are much harder to carve than others, but you have to balance the ease of carving with the potential longevity of the piece. For a staff like what I want to make, it would probably not face a ton of use but may be brought to Renaissance Fairs and the like and as such I would like it to hold up fairly well to occasional handling.
- The method I have in mind for affixing a crystal would involve spare pieces of wood being carved into prongs which would be screwed into the head of the staff and then subsequently wrapped in leather, so a wood that would be amenable to a couple of small screws would be ideal.
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. I won't have the budget for power tools, so I will have to make things work with hand tools.
Thank you,
Isaac