Ah -- childhood memories! I think it was childhood memories that got me started stick making in the first place. My grandfather use to make canes right on the tree by bending and tying off to eventually produce a crook handle cane. Hickory, elm (before the Dutch elm disease) and oak.
nostalgia
saw some pics today, you would never guess who of Hopalong Cassidy my child hood hero .,had to chuckle he came to my home town when i was 6 years old had measles at the time banned from going to see him .climbed out of the window shimmed down the drian pipe and went to see him anyway didnt half pay for it when i got back couldnt climb up the drain pipe.
Remember it all so well sugar rationong was still in force so difficult to get the sweets at the time
a quick sketch of him mayby even a topper?
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Remember it all so well sugar rationong was still in force so difficult to get the sweets at the time
a quick sketch of him mayby even a topper?
