ah back we're back once you have your sticks you brought them back now you want to fix them up do various things with them make it look nice make them as gifts for people or something like that we're going to cut the knobs off so we're going to use all when these Japanese type saws that are available at hardware stores and so on and we're going to cut all the knobs off of it and then we'll send them down with sandals knobs down and then possibly send some of the rough spots out of the so we like sandpaper block we use the medium and they're simplified easy to find we did point out the saw we use to cut in the field with just a hug a gardeners saw from like orchard suppliers sometimes like that and of course we always have them we're going to have a need to do some carving we may want to carve something on there carve it out put some leather on order two something like that what we do is sometimes we wrap leather around and we'll show you examples of that we might want to these laces all these leather pieces are available from leather stores and hardware stores or sometimes you can just buy a little scrap bond that's what those were sometimes we won't use all from from climbers supply places or whatever is just lace that looks real pretty to put on there and make a handle out of it or just make a deco and of course glues we're going to use glues we do often get into putting the leather on we'll use Brad's so we have all the different colors Brent you know brass and copper and silver color some people may want to do wood burning it's just a simple wood burning tool works great inlay is a little more complicated I've gotten into it a little bit lately but it's still fairly hard to do but you use glues like this and you can use to grab turquoise and different different levels of powder and granular and so on and then of course I also put out some sometimes we use walnut varnish and some your thing to finish it off with and I love these just these little paintbrushes they have now tips I like tips on mine I don't want them to feel soft when they hit the ground and and knives different carving knives which we get at the wood carvers place so this is the kind of things you can use don't have to have any of these things but it's good to have some of them and you have a lot of fun if you're going to make a gift for somebody you can kind of trim it up and I'll show you some intimate yes now we're going to get these branches and nuts off of here and using our Japanese saw and it's pretty simple and I didn't mention that all this with all of this wearing gloves is good you have to be careful not to get yourself cut obviously that's all I'll say about that I like taking these off and then sand in the malls nicely and carving them I used to shake bucket - or one of those woodworkers knives and finish up to the job and the idea here is - and I haven't I haven't completely peel this I'm going to show that in a minute but just to trim this on down I cut that one down smooth enough there's not much to do with it so you got it obviously trim off your knots and limbs and get that as smooth as you can and then we're going to finish taking this all and I just want to point out that if you have problems there's about three layers of this a lot of wood if you want to take them off carefully because you don't want to butcher that inside surface and I use it as far as cleaning these I use a blunt knife that I took and kind of cut down so it was a good tool I just made a tool that wouldn't cut through the wood but there was made a good raker and that's how I get these things cleaned down like this it takes some time but when you get done you really do have a nice process another way to do it is to soak this thing to take a towel wrap it soak the towel and let it lay for three or four hours and then come back to it and then this stuff will peel off much easier and much cleaner in the process so that's just part of cleaning it to do that any way you want to for that matter I like to finish off the knots so that they're smooth before I start sanding and I these are all I've trimmed them with the Japanese saw carpenters saw I'm just going to takes a while to do this so I'm just going to go through and trim them and I like to make those knots look good as nice as I can this one had a lot of knots on it for some reason that's reason I picked this tip to stick to show you now I'm going to turn the stick around the other way so that can trim the tops of each one of these but that's the way I do it this must stand - I've already trimmed the ends with my pocketknife or my carving that I used to use a pocketknife and then I graduated to a carving knife but then I'm going to sand pretty much Santa the stick itself at this point just to smooth it out so we'll have a nice smooth edge particularly up in here where you're going to put you have your hands on it and we're just going to use it then I put a hidden not I kind of go it extra hard on that and this wood is soft so it's real easy to work with it but it's also very stout so it's very nice as a stick and it's like so it works makes a really nice hiking stick and also pretty so now we're taking some of our darkness off our sticks so that's how we're going to take some of that Danish as lockups Lecco walnut and and just put back on here put some of color by skin okay so after we've sanded it the stick we're just going to wipe it with a damp cloth to kind of prepare it for um for a little stain and then we'll go over here to our staining area and our pavillion up in the woods and we'll now that's really going to be some nice-looking wood there you can see it's got a lot of different stripes and colors in it let's go try it okay we're just going to smear a little bit of walnut on here that I think it's a light walnut but it's just and then we're going to get all the most of the way down on the stick and then we'll wipe it off with a piece of old t-shirt and that's after we've wiped off the dust from the sanding but it's really as you can see now this has to be wiped off it can't be left on your cause it to be very sticky and it'll take forever to dry but it's going on pretty good out in this case this is a little Minwax o medium wallet I believe but it's right at the bottom of the cans so it doesn't have a lot of stain left in it you can see um we have it all wet stain we've got a layer of stain on there you want more you can always put another layer but now I'm just kind of wiping it off and first of all that's going to take that down and make it look absolutely like it's the original piece of wood which it is very close to what it looked like when we took the peel the skin off of it layers of bark but next thing to do is do some work on it maybe do some carving on it maybe inlay a piece of turquoise in one of the knots or carve a lead for a feather or some feathers or something like that and I'll show you some of the different things on some other sticks that we usually do you