Trimmed up walking sticks

If walking at night, some fluorescent dots could be useful.

Lots to stick on but should be tasteful or it looks like the owner is in second childhood, knocking on the door to dementia.
I like to see them decorated but please not over done.

Danma

I often take a crutch with me when travelling. It’s not likely to be picked up by someone else by mistake.

Ooooooo thats a fancy super dooper crutch.

No I don't think it will be mistaken.

I often take a crutch with me when travelling. It’s not likely to be picked up by someone else by mistake.

Maxine16

Unfortunately these feathers are usually sourced from factory farmed chickens and turkeys A lot of people don't realise their is such cruelty behind a seemingly innocent item.

Well THAT alters my whole thoughts on using anymore... I didnt realise i thought it was man-made..
Obviously not...

Greyduster

My son has just finished making me a walking stick. After all the work that’s gone into it I wouldn’t dare stick anything on it (yet!).

Wow...

Look at THAT ...

Lovingly made... its beautiful x

sweetcakes

Serendipity22 here's a picture simple but elegant. ?

Ahhhhhhh yes, very elegant........

My son has just finished making me a walking stick. After all the work that’s gone into it I wouldn’t dare stick anything on it (yet!).

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Unfortunately these feathers are usually sourced from factory farmed chickens and turkeys A lot of people don't realise their is such cruelty behind a seemingly innocent item.

Very nice sweetcakes. We have two antique walking canes with silver tops and I only recently discovered that one of the tops comes off and is a small flask. How cool is that!

Serendipity22 here's a picture simple but elegant. ?

StarDreamer

geekesse

I’m a teacher. My black stick has a golden skull as the handle. The kids love and fear it in equal measure.

How will the governors view it if someone makes a complaint about it?

Is it worth the risk?

If the kids are 13+ secondary age they're not likely to be scared by a walking stick! No doubt they watch Harry Potter films, and vampire and zombie films, so a metal skull on a walking stick is really not going to bother them. If a parent should complain tell her/him that you'll pass on their complaint to the voodoo doll that you stick pins in at home!! Just continue to be yourself geekesse

The safest, easiest to use ‘sticks’. They come in a variety of colours, with a ferrule for snow and ice available.
Smartcrutchuk

Those sticks look great!
DH has two (hiking) sticks covered in those little metal badges of all the places we've visited. They're part of our small collection of handmade sticks from various parts of the country.
I've always said if I ever need to use a mobility scooter I'm really going to glam it up!

Gabrielle56

You mean "pimp my stick!" Don't you?

Ahhhh yes.

PIMP MY STICK

EXACTLY ?

silvercollie

I do not use a conventional walking stick. Because I frequently have sheep to count and occasionally a stock market to attend then I use my 'thumb stick'. This is a straight piece of Hazel with a natural 'V' at the top. Having shrunk many inches over the years, I have to sometimes lop a piece off now and then - at the bottom, of course - replacing the ferrule on completion.

Then for 'best' and always carried in my car, I have a beautifully crafted straight stick with a small horn tassle.

For aircraft flights there is my collapsible stick that neatly folds into my cabin luggage. This one is no good for whacking people as it will collapse, but the other ones are ideal!

Hahahaha... i like the bit about whacking people

I take it you're a Yorkshire lass ??

You mean "pimp my stick!" Don't you?

I do not use a conventional walking stick. Because I frequently have sheep to count and occasionally a stock market to attend then I use my 'thumb stick'. This is a straight piece of Hazel with a natural 'V' at the top. Having shrunk many inches over the years, I have to sometimes lop a piece off now and then - at the bottom, of course - replacing the ferrule on completion.

Then for 'best' and always carried in my car, I have a beautifully crafted straight stick with a small horn tassle.

For aircraft flights there is my collapsible stick that neatly folds into my cabin luggage. This one is no good for whacking people as it will collapse, but the other ones are ideal!

I covered my stick in thick red and silver tinsel a few Christmas’ ago, added battery operated fairy lights and little bells.

It was mostly so people could hear me plodding along behind them, and it was helpful when they heard me and moved out of my way. It did raise lots of smiles and a few interesting conversations.

(I’d like to say I overtook them, but that didn’t happen!)

Haven’t jazzed up my scooter yet but my daughter calls it the Dragon Wagon.. no idea why

If ever it comes to the point where I need a walking stick I will cover mine with flower stickers. I am an ancient hippy so would be most fitting ?

StarDreamer

Yes, someone could claim that it terrifies her child.

What would the governors do about that?

I teach upper secondary. I can’t imagine any circumstances where a child of 13+ whom I teach might be frightened of a walking stick with a plastic skull on it. If a parent complains about anything, we have a complaints procedure which would presumably be actioned. I don’t think there’s anything to be gained from teaching in permanent fear of the remote, theoretical possibility of a parent complaining.

Hello Silverlining! see you over there ?

Fanny interrupting this thread to say I have just posted 4 times in the hip thread and yet not in the Active list. Not at all. Ridiculous how often we are ignored.
One was for you, asking how you are.
Back to faux fur, apologies fir the interruption.

Serendipity22

As far as I know it is alllll man made... yes faux.
It was only £3 for a metre.

I’m afraid that it isn’t man made.
Sorry Serendipity

There is no such thing as faux swans down - it’s too fine to make.
It’s ‘baby’ feathers which are attached to the creatures skin, like an under coat.
You can tell that it’s real by blowing on it, it sort of separates into a flower shape, like rabbit fur does.

It rarely comes from swans - it’s far more likely to be from turkeys farmed in China.

Faux fur from China is actually more expensive than real Chinese rabbit fur: so much so that real rabbit fur is often passed off as faux fur to more squeamish UK buyers.