Gorilla Walking Sticks

You are going to enter one of these in the Gorilla Glue Outdoor Contest, right?

Great job!

Thanks for the post

Callum

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Very nice

-- Glenn, New Mexico

Great looking walking sticks.

-- Mike, Bruce Mississippi = Jack of many trades master of none

great projects! (love those walking sticks)
great display!
great photos!
and hilarious presentation.

well done.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Greetings Y’All:

Many thanks for the kind comments. Here’s some followup info.

First, I really use Gorilla Glue in my walking stick operation. I make and sell about 200 walking and hiking sticks per year as an adjunct to my rustic furniture business. Most of my sticks are one piece, with the handles usually being made from the roots. However, when I have accumulated some interesting sticks that need handles, I usually use brass objects and secure them with Gorilla Glue and brass screws or pins.

I’ve been experimenting with Gorilla CA Glue for use in creating crushed stone inlays. I’ll report back with my findings at a latter date.

Also, I’ll be trying the Gorilla brand wood glue for general purpose projects like tenon and mortise gluing.

BTW, the Maasai Shield in the pictures is a top from one of my Safari Tables. I painted it with home-brew milk paints and sealed it with a tung oil based varnish. The pattern for the table top is from an authenic Maasai Shield that I brought back from East Africa.

I suspect Miss Glue-Rilla will be back to assist me in future projects.

-- Randy, Rustic Artisan, a family tradition. (No PM's - auto-deleted.) - "I am a seeker, not a follower."

Some very cool sticks, & good luck.

I like the horse harness part for the tip.

Can these be bought somewhere?

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Hi Dick:

Here’s a source for hame tops:

Horse Hame Tips

Note: I bought out a harness makers supply of brass a few years ago.
I got about 400 Hame Tops of various kinds and other brass parts.
I’m almost out of that inventory. That’s a lot of Gorilla Glue!
All of the hame tops are now gone.

Currently, most of my walking sticks are one piece with the handles being the root of the plant.
I dig them up in the early Spring – box elder, hackberry, sassafras, oak, hickory, ironwood, etc.
I try to do about 50 of these a year.
This year I’m carving/burning a series of dragon head designs for the Winter shows.

-- Randy, Rustic Artisan, a family tradition. (No PM's - auto-deleted.) - "I am a seeker, not a follower."

Thanks Randall!

If I was going to sell walking sticks , I’d try them.

I’m going to take some pictures of sticks that I’ve made, & show them here.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1