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I've got to the stage in life where I could do with one. I fancy splashing out on a dog's b*****ks device. I picture in my mind a carbon fibre automatic retractable type of thing but after doing a quick search on t'web all l can find are cheap folding ones. Why these days do people think that everyone wants to buy "cheap" "discounted" "half-price" stuff? Can any of you old gits point me towards anything?
 
Try this lot - I need a stick at times - I have 2 , one lives in the car and the other in the house. Service from them has been good

http://sticks.org
 
All retractable/folding/ telescopic mullarkey will eventually have joint problems.
Many of them transmit slightly a unpleasant feeling vibration when the tip hits the ground

Traditional sticks (hazel) are trouble free, not very heavy and have been in use for centuries.

Carbon fibre (100% carbon content) are immensely light and strong and have no vibration issue.

I use a 125 cm long one piece carbon fibre pole because I often walk off paths and the extra reach helps negotiate obstacles (quite good as a makeshift monopod, too).
 
Don't know if you want the type used by hill walkers but they collapse to a fairly small size and some have a camera mount in the top which could be useful.

Dave
 
I don't need one all the time at the moment but I have a bad knee that flairs up from time to time. I have been using my monopod to hobble around the house lately and thought it time to get a proper stick. I thought of a telescopic one so it could fit in carry-on luggage. I've looked on a lot of websites but they somehow look a bit cheap and nasty.
 
You can get them made to measure with joints like snooker cue joints for making them shorter for transport.
 
Carbon Fibre walking poll with Spherical cork handle at the top was my choice after years of back pain I had no choice!

Make sure

1. Good quality Pole
2. Domed or spherical top - anything else will eventually hurt
3. Make double sure its SPRING LOADED or damped as the imapct travels up the pole to the wrist - check this in store by extending it and putting it down on the floor and increase weight loadiing and then relax - pole should recover if spring-loaded

Buy a bag of spare tips and rubber feet for it ......
 
LOL quoted my own post....
 
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I used one for years and the best I ever had was a vintage hand made one, made from blackthorn, getting on of the right height is very important as well as with a non slip tip and thats stout enough to climb up with should you
fall

Mine was similar to this one http://sticks.org/acatalog/info_46.html.
 
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Since writing I have been using an old fashioned hooked cane one, great fun, never realised what pleasure you can get out of prodding and hooking people. Should have got one years ago :banana:
 
BBR said:
A sword stick would be fun!!
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wontolla said:
It would! :D
But also illegal! :(
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They're classed as concealed weapons and it's against the law to trade in them too, unless the swordstick is at least 100 years old. I don't know when the law changed, but there was a shop in London that sold them in the early 70s, and that wasn't all that long ago. Can't remember their name but it was quite a traditional place, and they also sold sword umbrellas. These were the real thing, not fantasy martial arts nonsense.
 
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