Another Staff has been Carved, and it's Pretty ...

... and practical and useable too.

As I told you here, I have been working on a ¾ staff^* made from rhododendron wood, a strong, dense and hard wood well suited for canes and staffs.

Here is the end result:

The wood at the top looked like a hare to me (opinions differed, but it's my staff, so there):

So, I put in some effort to make it look even more like a hare:

All this was done with a pocket knife and sandpaper, except for the bottom bit of the staff, which is rather more high-tech, for usability reasons.

The wood has been treated with beeswax for protection and to make it look better.

I'm really chuffed with the result, also because it turned out it is very well suited for hitting people over the head with, or smite them, as I like to call it.

A note to Katharsisdrill: I read somewhere Celts didn't allow themselves to eat hares; the animal must have held a special significance to them. I'm trying to find out what and why.

^{* This means ¾ of body length; the Ivy Staff is full body length.}