Bobs Stickmaking Pages - A cow horn and rosewood thumbstick #125


	125 - A cow horn and rosewood knobstick, capped with Zebrano wood and decorated with buffalo horn, bone and mother-of-pearl. Maximum length 39"/ 990mm overall. Medium weight, slim but strong.
I had picked up an old ebonised stick shank at an antique shop. On getting it home, I removed the black lacquer, revealing a very nice piece of rosewood. I decided to make a cow horn knobstick with it, but this called for something a little special. So I selected a piece of French Charolais cow horn and made an extended spacer from pieces of black buffalo horn and white buffalo bone. I capped the horn with a piece of Zebrano (an African hardwood with a very distinctive black-striped grain) mounted on another slice of black buffalo horn. The joint between horn and capping is reinforced with a stainless steel peg, and the top is finished off with a lttle inlay of mother-of-pearl. This is one of those pieces that really bursts into life when the light catches it just right. The result is a gorgeous little stick that fits the hand very comfortably and refuses to be put down.




An unusual and very user-friendly little stick.
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