Pounding the pulpit in ,
Leif Thorvaldson did expound thusly:


====Well, Mac! You plant a sapling of whatever type of wood you want
and as it grows you start bending the tip over, eventually hanging a
weight on it. Depending on the wood, in five to ten years you'll have a
bent cane handle. It is sorta like Xmas tree farming, ya gotta wait
awhile before it pays off! ( Well, you did say "any" info appreciated,
and idea, hits, tips, etc!)*G*



There was an article on in a local mag some time back on an "artist" who
actually does very similar for making custom walking sticks! They were
lovely spiralled jobs with highly detailed carving, much like the
traditional Scots blackthorn sticks; from memory he only turns out one a
week or fortnight or so.

I forget the name of the tree, but 'tis one of those English trees that
grows in coppices, and generates a lot of suckers every year. He wraps 'em
around lengths of reo-rod as they grow, there was some reason he didn't
steam 'em but unless I can find the magazine....

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- Andy
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Noah! Come quick! There's water in the basement!