Grimbo;s shillelagh...

geared more for uk etc,and countries without firearms...

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[teyacapan]

that is one great walking stick.......... how do you make the striping on youre snake ball tick?

[wolfbushcraft]

@teyacapan burnt on m8,wrap the parts you dont wont to burn in wet leather,then hold it over a flame.

[teyacapan]

@wolfbushcraft thank you much. do you thing may be i could subtitude the leather for aluminum foil? thanks a gain.......... happy week end

[wolfbushcraft]

@teyacapan yes why not..its flame proof ,you dont hold it over a flame for long anyway,just watch the wood doesnt start burning deeply.

[TommyTurntables1]

Theres a knife company here in America called "Cold Steel" that seems to make a pretty killer "IRISH BLACKTHORN WALKING STICK". :-)

[wolfbushcraft]

@TommyTurntables1 yes ive heard,its not wood though is it?

[Robineux99]

I know another irish traditional martial art called shnotiluk. You need one big rock in your good hand and a couple smaller ones in the other. The traditional way to fight is to unsettle your opponent by strategically throwing smaller rocks on various parts of his body and try to crush his skull with the bigger rock. The only master of this art lives in Ireland secluded in a giant oak trunk.

[hoosierarcher]

Blackthorne is difficult and expensive to obtain in America. Cold Steel makes an artificial one out of polypropelene that is quite usable both as a walking stick and a shillelagh. A master with a shillelagh can do amazing things with it. I saw a man in my youth swing it, seemingly once, yet the poor sod that was the recipient of the treatment had three lumps on his face and head from 3 seperate impacts.

[nfpmg]

@sirblocketh The Shillelagh was named after a Village in Co. Wicklow.

[BuzzTeddyHead]

@Bdiddly1 Find an old blackthorn, cut it (or part of it) back to the root in WINTER. Leave enough above the ground to form the knot part . Then come back about 5 years later. If its open to the sky and the shoots grow upward you will have a choice of coppiced blackthorn branches. Cut the head larger than you need, then shape it at home. Failing that you could try to find a tree that has fallen over. Try river banks, or steep valley sides. The shoots will then grow out of the trunk.

[BuzzTeddyHead]

@wolfbushcraft Do you rub some kind of tallow on there into the soot ?

[BuzzTeddyHead]

@wolfbushcraft I seen those, some kind of polymer. I have gone through the effort of searching out a nice straight peice of blackthorn. I don't think it would be commercially viable for a company to do the same. Not unless they were hiring magic leprechauns.

[hinano316]

Great job! Love that Blackthorn ...

[thirteenfingers]

A really important point to make for the UK is that loaded sticks (drilled and filled with lead) are definitely NOT legal.

Any object "made or adapted for causing injury" is classed as an offensive weapon and as there is no other reason to load sticks with lead it would be extremely difficult to prove it wasn't made or adapted to cause injury.

I love the sail éille, but loading one in the UK is begging for trouble.

[PsychoticButcher]

What is that melodic death metal song in the background? I KNOW I've heard that song but I can't pinpoint which band/song because I can hardly hear it.

[sirblocketh]

the orriginal shillelagh WAS oak, the name actualy means oak stick, as for blackthorn, its just a type of hawthorn which is fairly common in America, at least it is in the South... the knob can be either root or where the branch meets the trunk. both types are very dense wood

[Bdiddly1]

@thatconnallykid -ye i thought it was meant to be oak as well&the top is meant to be a knot on the branch or something?

[Bdiddly1]

i was told off my uncle that the knot at the top of a sheileighleigh is a knot in the wood-but its the root-how do i find one and make one mate-im in Scotland!