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
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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
