Stick dressing. Making a wooden handle shepherd’s crook or walking stick. How to make. Woods used. Materials and methods

 Making a wooden handled shepherd’s stick.  By Clive Dalton When I started as a ‘shepherd laddie’ on Anglo/Scottish Border farms in the 1950s, (thankfully on the English side), the first thing I needed was a decent stick to ‘look’ sheep on the heather and ‘bent’ (tussock) fells.  The stick was used like the NZ musterer’s stick, … Read more