how do i find a nice log or whatever to shape a quarterstaff out of? It's one thing to take a branch or sapling but i wanna make a proper one but i have no idea how. How do i saw one out? Or split without rupturing it?
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how do i find a nice log or whatever to shape a quarterstaff out of? It's one thing to take a branch or sapling but i wanna make a proper one but i have no idea how. How do i saw one out? Or split without rupturing it?
i found a broken shovel and just cut the rounded ends flat with a chopsaw it's slightly tapered on one side, really wish I had an excuse to beat the shit out of somebody with it.
Easiest option is to buy a closet pole from a hardware store. They're typically 8 feet long and about 1.25" inches / 30mm in diameter.
>How do i saw one out
Call your father. Ask him why he failed to teach you basic woodworking.
>take 6' x 7-8", very straight, ash log
>split in half - wedges, saw, your choice
>split halves into four quarters
>round the nicest quarters into staves - use a wood lathe, draw knife, or your choice of worse tool like hatchet
>sand and linseed oil
>practice hard
oooooh so that's how you do it. how do you get it to be straight and not follow the fibers too much? for example if you encounter a branch inside the log.
Careful selection of a clear (knot free) starting trunk and make it thick enough - might need 9-10" diameter depending. Having a saw mill do the quartering would save a lot of work and tears.
>this is an excuse for you to buy an Alaskan sawmill
Yeah wow great question I wonder where a person could find a stick? Seems like an impossible task.
Honestly someone who has to ask on the internet where to get a pice of wood will only hurt himself badly if he actually gets his hands on one, like put an eye out.
A stick is never a quarterstaff proper.
Do you really think it's going to matter.
As someone who practices with both, yes it matters. The materials behave differently, the staff has a different resonance and can do different things. Mass, sectional density, taper, flex all matter, never mind the actual wood type.
>As someone who practices with both, yes it matters.
When has it mattered to you? When have you been in a situation where you said "wow, thank God I had the right design of quarterstaff, I'd be dead otherwise!"
If you've never said that, it's never mattered.
Not much call for actual staff fighting so this is being able to execute proper staff technique during practice. My birch staff simply doesn't move with the precision or speed necessary. I use it to practice much slower while the manufactured staff can go full speed and full technique.
Staff - European Ash, hands down.
Walking stick for cudgeling - most any hardwood, look up shillalegh and knob kerry.
google around for local lumber yards and ask about their scraps
If you have to ask how to find a stick, you have no purpose in using a staff.
>It's one thing to take a sapling
That's how you make it though.
I gave your mom a whole staff
i gave YOUR mom half a stuff
The quarterstaff was the best machinegun of world war two.
What's the best hardwood to make a staff or walking stick out of?
I would suggest white oak from a practical standpoint it’s strong with linear grain and naturally resistant to the elements and insects. Not the prettiest wood though.
Frankly, osage orange or mahogany would make very interesting staffs, as they are very hard but also have a little bit of shock absorbing structural properties. hard canadian maple's not so bad either, the sugar maple I think it's called. I wonder if one can find a nice enough piece of english or american walnut for this also. traditional quarterstaff seems to have been made of ash or yew though.
quarter-sawn walnut is usually reserved for nice gun stocks and very nice furniture these days. expensive pieces.
Is heavy, but American Hickory may flat out be the strongest wood. Baseball bats are ash, sledgehammer handles are hickory.
There are stronger woods but they're very expensive.
Use fresh live wood, a sapling or young tree. Cut to your height, doubles as walking stick. Strip the bark, sand and stain if you wanna get fancy or make them for a living. This is how I make spears. I love woodworking.
Make it hexagonal, the edges add +10 of damage.
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