See more ideas about walking sticks, walking sticks and canes, walking canes. If this doesn't make sense I'll try to get it in photos to post, but its really quite easy once you get the idea. Explore Vicky Strydom's board 'walking stick' on Pinterest. play around with it until you get the look you want. You can repeat the whole thing again from the top with a different vertical line if you want multiple spirals.You can vary the distance between the points as you go down the stick if you want the spiral to thighten as the stick diameter decreses.

Repeat this process all the way down the stick. This free, online project by Lora Irish will take you through the basic techniques used in chosing your wood staffs and sticks, wood carving cane toppers, cane construction, and finishing used for walking sticks. Your spiril will be right or left dependant on this choice. Walking Sticks and canes are a favorite wood carving project for both beginning carvers to the most advanced woodworker. Next, start at one end and draw a pencil line from a point on the first vertical line to a point one increment below it but on the vertical line either to the right or the left of the line you started on. The closer these points are together the tighter the spiral will be. Next lay the stick down and mark each of the 'vertical' lines at specific increments (ie: every inch or every half inch etc). First draw the pimary compass lines across the END of the stick and then extend them down the shaft. Its pretty straight forward but can be tricky to describe.

Carving walking canes