I'll show you some other stuff. Lake you'll see mud Lakes on a lot of different places very shallow. This is all swamp here; it's basically a big, big state trail that goes around a swamp. Here it's really too dry I'm gonna peel Dynamo Walking Cane these anyways yeah and throw them in that box and yeah I'll show you some more stuff this is like phase one sticks stick making course what we're going to try and do over a series of several s is to take you from actually cutting a stick to the finished product so for cutting your stick you cut your sticks when the sap is down which is normally November December January and that is your best time to cut before any leaf grows so here we are into the woods and ready to start a stick so stand of here we're surrounded by actually in this wood which I'm not going to disclose us to where it is because when you get a wood you want to make sure you guard it and also make sure you do get the mission off a landowner before you go in and I always find the best lighter approach of landowners to either giving the stick or promising the stick off.

Once you've run later so we'll start off with the basic stuff so we need to cut and gear to start so if my cameraman goes down on to this all right so we start off you need a good strong pair of glass some people cut any blackthorn or any thorny stuff a good pair of gloves is handy your choice of saws that's a little fold-up prune and saw give them the most hardware shops this one is a little fold-up bow saw they often the favourite tool is the little office I find they're very good one good cut and you're through and it's a lot quicker than messing about with a little saw the other necessity is ya secretaries trimming off any Bigfoot Cane side bits a good strong pair of gloves if you'll cut and Blackthorne any that's or lion always better to have a pair it's all a pleasure okay so here we go now we'll make a start at doing a bit of cu.

These are the things you must look for when you're cutting and when you're new it's the guy it's very difficult to cut a stick that when they when you've cut they season for a year and they shrink and it's surprising how much a stick shrink so always cut slightly on the larger size than you think you're gonna need the obvious thing is rather an inch on a thick end going down to about 3/4 you want the taper on a stick gives it balance once you put a head on so this is your ideal type of stick thing so you've got a nice thick base to it don't get when it's cut you turn upside down where the Hayden right you go on to this where the ferrule goes on the bottom so I mean luckily we've got a good inch sound there another table though that is an ideal state there's now solid pieces there's nothing it's a beautiful clean stick so I'll cut him off so I'll go down about this step do these lockers what is he there.