Walking sticks ad on how to make projects hiking sticks and canes

Recent review of website has yield a great number of add-on's to walking sticks. However the add-on usually very costly such as add a compass for $16 or a bell on the stick for $12. Bells are great to make bears know you are around but $12 for a small bell that costs $14 in a dollar store? So it has leather attached to it. If you are making your won walking sticks and hiking staffs you can give your wood hand made walkgin stick the custom add-on's for next to nothing.


Making your own walking sticks is a great hobby. Why spend a ton of money on simple walking stick making customization items when you can do it for 85% less?  Look at the previous inlay of a stone. Instead of a stone put in a compass!  When you create your ropes handle slide on a bell!  Learn how to make you own custom walking sick and staff tips for the bottom of your own hand made walking hiking stick or if you prefer rubber go to your local hardware store and look for chair/table leg floor protecting rubber ends. Why pay $5 to $10 for these when they cost less than $1 each?


Many people want a holistic walking stick so in-lay a magnet and use copper wire wrapping techniques explained in the how to make unique walking and hiking stick guides. Use the rope weaving techniques and attached a stone or beads to the handle of the walking stick.  Or better yet wood burn images images or make a wizard stick with wood burned symbols and inserted crystals. There are no limits to the customizations you can add when making walking and hiking sticks by your own hands.

How to make walking sticks inlay insert rocks, magnets adn crystals

Inlay cut stone or magnet in walking hiking sticks and staffs

Here is another inlay of a stone into a walking stick.  When making your own wood walking stick or hiking staff you can insert stones, crystals, magnets and add top handles will a few techniques. Are you learning how to make hiking sticks or staffs for Boy scouts? why settle for the ordinary hiking stick when you can make a unique personalized walking staff or stick by adding wire, rocks, rope, wood burning designs or staining.

It not hard to learn how to make unique walking sticks using simple instructions in the How to make unique walking and hikgin sticks by hand guides.

When collecting your walking stick wood look at the dimensions of the wood. The skinner the wood the harder it is to do things to it when making your hiking staff especially when carving walking sticks. The walking stick image with the inlayed  lagoona agate is approximately 2" x 3" in size. It tapers down to 1.5" inches. depending upon the wood selected you may need thicker wood. If you collect hardwood for your walking stick making project then it can be thinner. However, if you are working with pine, aspen, willow try to get ones that do not taper down to beyond .5" in diameter.

Making hiking sticks with magnets or compasses on the tops require the same though. Get the magnet or compass and then collect your wood to make a hiking stick or walking staff. guides to making walking staffs and hiking sticks out of wood using carving, wood burning, rope work, inlay objects, staining and other techniques is a great way to enjoy the hobby. Collecting hiking stick wood and then only to have it ruined makes for a frustrated hobbyist.  Just as in any hobby there are techniques and methods to working with the material and the surest way to prevent frustration with a new hobby is to get guidance. The inlayed stone above uses wood carving, staining and stone anchoring techniques. No the stone is not just glued to the wood (gluing stone to wood does not hold!). It uses simple techniques learning when making unique walking staffs and hiking sticks.

walkgin Stick Septor staff and wand making project

How to Make Magic Wand walking Stick septors

Earlier I posted the start of how to make walking sticks and magic wands with inlaid crystals. Here are four finished pre-shellac finished wands. Three of them have quartz crystals and one magic wnds has a tourmaline crystal (its a gem) securely inlaid on the ends using techniques described in the how to hand make wood walking sticks and staffs guides.

One of the most important steps is the method of securing the stones to the wood. Just gluing them doe not work. Its a simple process of wood carving, a bit of rock grinding, and other steps detained in how to make walking sticks guides. NO the wire does not hold in the crystals on the end magic wand.

In addition,. three wands have copper wire wrapping with the ends of the wires hidden from view.  The how to make walking sticks, hiking and wizard staffs goes through A to Z starting from how to collect walking sticks wood, sanding, staining, carving, stone inlay, wire wrapping and best f all wood carving great sticks.

The wood uses in the magic wand making project above is willow collected in Utah a couple years ago. The wood was too thin for a wood walking stick staff so I cut it into 5 pieces to make wizard magic wands for friends who are we into the Harry Potter movies and books. The magic wands with the large quartz crystal and the tourmaline (dark crystal) crystals were kept in my collection of walking sticks for reference for how to make walking sticks, wizard staffs rock inlays.

I added the complete project to the how to make wood walking sticks and staffs guides as a bonus project. this is the second project recently added but not advertised on the website. To do this walking stick making project you will need to know  how to wire wrap, a bit of simple wood carving, sanding, inlay stones, staining and  other techniques in walking stick and staff making. If you want to make wizard sticks the process and techniques are the same. In fact, the wands are miniature wizard staffs.

Walking Stick carving and making left over projects

Making wood walking by hand is a great hobby, however, if you are like me you have a bunch of left over wood or sticks to thin to use as walking hiking sticks or staffs. There are many left over walking stick wood projects to do including making wooden knives, miniaturize flower vase's,  wood spoons, forks, wood combs, wizard wands, candle holders, wood carved Xmas tress and much more. In the previous post we described making wizard wands using the same techniques as you would with making walking and hiking sticks and staffs.

One favorite project is make wood knives or making wood flower vases. My daughter loves the vase's and she has a small collection of them in her room with fresh cut flowers.  The vase project is shown in the walking stick how to make guides left over section. My son and I have contests on unique wood knife whittling and carving. He uses the techniques detailed in the how to make unique wood walking and hiking stick guides for ideas and how to's.   I will post some wood whittled knives next week along with an update on the wizard wands scepters.

Do you have a great left over hiking stick making project?  Please feel free to post it here. We are always looking for new ideas on hiking stick making styles and project. have a great weekend and happy walking stick and wood carving!

Minature hand made walking sticks - magic wands septors How to Make

Magic wand with tourmaline crystal soon!

One of the great things about the hobby of making walking and hiking sticks from wood is discovering what to due with left over wood.  Recently a friend asked me to make a couple magic wands for a Harry Potter group. At first I though I did not know what to do. However, after a bit of simple research I discovered they are basically small (very short) tapered walking hiking sticks. Making hiking sticks, walking staffs and scepters all use the same wood working carving techniques.
All the images are WORK IN PROGRESS. I will do a post of finish ones in the near future.

Long Magic wand hand made

The images are the start to a magic wands or scepter using the same techniques used for walking sticks. Basically you find the limb, remove the bark and then start working on your miniature walking stick or magic wand. The one in the above image will have natural unaltered quartz crystal inserted just like the how to make unique walking sticks guides details and even some copper wire wraps around the top. I was told copper wire and crystals are highly desired collectors and user of magic wands. The main difference between carving or making a magic wand as compared to a walking stick is the style. magic wands have sections that taper into a round point.

Magic wand making with quartz and silver band

Beyond that you can using the same carving, inlay, wiring wrapping techniques as detail in the walking stick making guides.  If you have nay comments or quotes please fell free to post them for a quick reply!

 When making walking sticks on of the least explored parts is the actual making of the hiking stick leash or holding area. Many people settle for a simple string or leather cord through the wood. However, if you are making your own walking or hiking stick why settle for an ordinary hand leash or cord?

The image to the right are cords available online from several sources. they come in many colors, styles and even widths. You buy the walking stick cord making material by the foot or yard.  www.Strapworks.com is my favorite. Type to match the cord color to the wood or own hand made walking hiking stick style Are you making a southwest design? Wood spirit hiking walking stick wood carving? Or using a staining walking stick making technique?

When you get the cord feed one end through your home made walking stick and then use the palm sewing tool sew the ends together. It's simple and adds a great touch to your hiking stick making project.

Trick: heat the end for the strap with a match to prevent fraying of the cord.

Now if you really want a custom look when making your walking  hiking sticks then learn some simple rope weaving techniques, such as the one in the walking hiking stick making guides. Rope weaving handles and walking stick hold areas prevent hand slippage and gives you added versatility.   Making hiking sticks from wood you collected from the metal tips, carving, staining and even handle making is a great hobby for all ages.  Hwo to make walking hiking sticks and staffs encompasses wood collecting, curing, staining, carving, rope weaving and many other techniques to make unique one of a kind walking and hiking sticks staffs.

Wood carving: How to make walking sticks and staffs

Walking stick making is a great hobby , but just like all hobbies if you have set it a side for a few months you will become rusty. Here in South Florida the winter is reserved for most do it yourself type people for home remodeling and landscaping projects due to the summers excessive heat and wet weather. this past winter/spring was no exception - I spend most of the time time doing landscaping projects around the house so I have time to enjoy the summer. As a result, when I do start wood carving hiking sticks and staffs in late Spring or Summer I need do some practice projects before using my good wood to make walking sticks.

I usually start with simple wood carving projects and wood burning images on small pieces of wood. carving wooden knifes is a great starter because it uses wood of similar diameter as when making walking and hiking sticks.  Carving wooden knives take about 1 to 2 hours each depending upon the size of the knife and the hardness of the wood. in addition, I carve wooded vases as described in the How to making unique walking and hiking stick guides  bonus projects and decorate them using wood burning techniques from the same hiking tick making guides.

Walking stick making encompasses may wood working techniques. some people just sand, stain and then put a hole through the wood walking stick. While people who make walking stick making a long time hobby use rope weaving techniques for making handles/grips, wood carving and staining to design unique walking sticks designs and finish their walking sticks with their own hand metal made tips and caps.

Whether you plan to make this a long time hobby practicing wood carving, staining and other walking stick making techniques is always a good idea first. when collecting wood for you walking sticks project on your vacations or around your are collect a few extra sticks. Practice wood carving on the extra sticks and start with simple designs. Otherwise you may wreck one of your favorite sticks  by making a wood carving mistake. Have a great summer!