Traditional Blackthorn Sticks

[Dale Seago]

Great pic there Seago Sensei. Further confirmation that a good blackthorn makes an excellent kilt accessory!

For that pic I need just one more accessory. Note the "Japanese general directing the troops on the battlefield" seated pose. What I really need to complete it is to also be holding a gunbai or signaling fan in my right hand.

[Ryan Ross]

For that pic I need just one more accessory. Note the "Japanese general directing the troops on the battlefield" seated pose. What I really need to complete it is to also be holding a gunbai or signaling fan in my right hand.

I can see it now... deflecting arrows with your right hand, while prodding at your minions with the stick.

We need a picture like that, once your armor is done.

[Dale Seago]

The new jo-length hiking staff just arrived at work today:

[Bugbear]

I wasn't going to post anything, CMcG, because they aren't blackthorns, but I just tied up some young branches on my trees into crooks at their bottoms, and will be shaping them as they grow over the next couple of years. It made me think of this discussion. I'm still learning how to do this, though, so it is practice.
And congratulations, Dale.

[SlackerDrummer]

I don't mean to alarm anyone, but it appears as if Dale has been assimilated.

[CMcG]

The new jo-length hiking staff just arrived at work today:

Wow! Ye old shillelagh stickmaker has been good to you, eh?

I wasn't going to post anything, CMcG, because they aren't blackthorns, but I just tied up some young branches on my trees into crooks at their bottoms, and will be shaping them as they grow over the next couple of years. It made me think of this discussion. I'm still learning how to do this, though, so it is practice.
And congratulations, Dale.

That sounds interesting, Bugbear. Is that crook for making a cromach?

[Ryan Ross]

That, Seago sensei, is a glorious thing of beauty!

Looks like, resting on the ground, it comes just up to your armpit; the perfect length for a jo. You've had excelent fortune with these two blackthorns, I must say!


...now what you need are some nice, noisy rings on there, to decorate the top. Shakujo!

[Bugbear]

That sounds interesting, Bugbear. Is that crook for making a cromach?

Basically, yes. I use them for reaching and feeling around in the tops of my trees and my cacti, like bending a branch down to pick fruit or to prune; other assorted uses, too. Some of these, though, are being shaped in spirals and so on for decorative purposes.

I have been wearing my canvas kilt a little when working out there, so I guess it's an accessory. I know some people use the cromach as a traditional kilt accessory, though.

[CMcG]

Basically, yes. I use them for reaching and feeling around in the tops of my trees and my cacti, like bending a branch down to pick fruit or to prune; other assorted uses, too. Some of these, though, are being shaped in spirals and so on for decorative purposes.

I have been wearing my canvas kilt a little when working out there, so I guess it's an accessory. I know some people use the cromach as a traditional kilt accessory, though.

I see, it's a Southwestern United States U-hook Cane (a SUSUC for short), which is a contemporary American kilt accessory. Nice

[Bugbear]

I see, it's a Southwestern United States U-hook Cane (a SUSUC for short), which is a contemporary American kilt accessory. Nice

* edit: sorry TMI and OT *

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