I'm gonna make a cane.

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Well, I'll try to, anyway. I mean, beavers pretty much did most of the work. I just need to finish it.

I think someone else had the idea, because even though both ends of this stick were chewed on (and that's an assumption), the stick was leaned up against a sign at the edge of the lake at our local state park. There was no one around and no other vehicles. Well, except for the one the lady parked and got out of, so she could get in her married boyfriend's truck. But, I digress.

I plan to cut the ends flat, sand some of the strands and knots on it, then maybe stain and poly. I want it to look decent, but also be somewhat functional, just in case I want to gift it to my father in law.

Any advice or tips? Speaking of, what to use for tips? Should I add anything to the ends or leave it natural-ish, but maybe shaped to be easy on the hand?

The stick. The end closest to my phone is visibly smaller in diameter than the end on the vise.

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I can't tell the diameter from the pics, but could you epoxy a copper plumbing cap to the hits-the-pavement end? Copper can be polished & sealed, and it would protect the end from mushrooming over with use.

Maybe a paracord or leather shoelace wrap for the grip?
 
I have a similar one, still raw as I haven't figured out exactly what I want to do with it. Nothing better than coming up on a beaver dam full of walking sticks when your waist deep chasing ducks. Mine is more of a staff at roughly 6' long.

Anxious to see what you do with this, I've thought about a light sand, sanding sealer, and some stain on mine. I sure don't want to remove the tooling marks from the original carver. I personally like the wedged side, I say keep that mostly natural in shape but trim down the area where it peeled from the stump. Will this just be displayed or actually used?
 
I want to ask which end of that is going up your arse, but then we’d have to move this thread to the basement.
 
We’d always dry them by the fire, allowing them to char a bit, and then scrape off most of the char and then rub it smooth. In the woods we wanted it to be our height plus a few inches and strong enough to support your weight.

For a cane I’d think you’d hold it palm down, so rounded top large enough to grasp.

On the bottom you could install a copper ring then split the wood below it and hammer in a wedge. Make it a size that you can stick a rubber cane tip on for indoor use.
 
Any drug store will carry rubber cane tips. They come in different sizes to fit whatever diameter staff you have. Maybe round over the very end and leave the teeth marks on the top end. Also boiled linseed oil would protect it just fine. The charring would look good too.
 
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