market stick

Another market stick

By George Malbon a pretty good stick maker

its made from spalted beech Also a few show stick by Paul Daunt another regular on the stickmaking site

My intention is to make a few horn market sticks but Jacobs sheep horns can be difficult to get. There usually larger than the average horn. They take quite some time to make and do need some special equipment to do them. costing around £200 to get set up for them. But a horn market stick does command a high price

I have a couple of soay sheep horns that are seasoned and ready to use but not sure if I can bulk then out enough yet, or if there long enough am seeking advice from our local stickmaking society .

a couple of pictures in there raw shape with the inner core knocked out. Which will be used as a infill when complete. A friend gave me them who breeds them for there meat when they had been slaughtered

I will post some pictures of Jacobs horn when I copy some

A couple of well made market sticks made for fun only 9 inches tall

one made from rams horn on a hazel shank with a water buffalo horn collar. the other spalted beech on a hazel shank again with a water buffalo horn collar

Made by a stickmaker in the UK nice piece of work and a bit of fun

another picture of a one piece crook in the making

one is a standard size the other a minature about 9 inches made by Nick Richards

Nice work both made from single piece of hazel .

Minature sticks seem to be popular at the moment could be just a Christmas thing but there nicely done .the most popular seem to be miniature rams horns and water buffalo horn crooks crooks

another one piece hikingpole in the form of a whippet by Brian Forty

clever work and very nicely painted carved from hazel

a few miniature sticks about 9 inches tall have posted one of them here before I think .but there fun. made by Nick Richards on the Facebook site

Just think they would make great pencil toppers

A trip to the stick makers meeting today last one of the year.

A guy had bought a couple of market sticks made from rams horn with hazel shanks. The hazel came from Scotland its such a great pattern on the bark its nothing like I harvest do wish I could get hold of some the rams horn crook was superb very good standard and he had made and fitted rams horn ferules on them. the transition was so good it was impossible to fell where the joint was .

1 Of guys also bought a few fresh cut blackthorn shanks but missed out on getting any as I was a tad late getting there,

a few pics of the rams horn ferule and crooks with the black thorn hope fully you can see the bark pattern on the hazel shank