Walking Stick

[Jock Scot]

Well ok, with hazel you may get away with a year.Whatever you do don't use heat as it will split the wood.It will also pay you,if you can,to cut your stick a couple of inches longer than you need at each end to allow for a split.I and my sons are always looking for sticks as we go about the farm etc., and if you find that "special" stick cut it then and there and never mind what time of year it is.If you don't you will never find it again!Blackthorn looks good with varnish and hazel,ash and holly boiled linseed oil is good.