Blackthorn shillelagh cold steel
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The Knob grip has a diameter of approximately 2 3/4". Cold Steel’s Irish Blackthorn Walking Stick has been a firm fan favorite since its inception. The Cold Steel Irish Blackthorn Walking Stick features single piece black Polypropylene construction, with an undulating shaft. It's a superb faux Blackthorn stick, and since it's injection molded from polypropylene, it will never warp, crack, swell up, or splinter and is easy to maintain with a little soap and water. All trademarks and registered trademarks are. It was copied carefully, and then artfully modified to a point where it not only mimics nature, but actually rivals and supersedes anything the natural world could produce! If nature had fashioned the most perfect Blackthorn stick, and you were lucky enough to come by it, our Irish Blackthorn Walking Stick is what it would look like. The product names used in this web site are for identification purposes only. The Cold Steel Irish Blackthorn Walking Stick is inspired by an authentic Blackthorn from Cold Steel President, Lynn C. Modeled after an ancient cudgel in Lynn C. It was because Blackthorn is difficult to come by and, since it's grown and not manufactured, it is somewhat inconsistent in quality.Ĭold Steel's recent forays into injected molded polypropylene products has yielded some impressive results and now we have produced a new polypropylene Blackthorn that has all of the advantages of real Blackthorn and none of its pitfalls. A shorter, lighter model that we simply named the Blackthorn Shillelagh. I love my heavy crooked hickory canes, which have the advantage of looking like a standard cane, but am attracted to the polypro concept. Cold Steels Blackthorn Shillelagh Walking Stick is the little brother to the Irish Blackthorn Walking Stick line-up. Yes, I have given up on the Cold Steel Blackthorn, despite its attractive appearance because of stories like these. The English didn't want to appear unreasonable by outlawing walking sticks too, so the Irish kept their modified shillelaghs and the world gained a beautiful and functional walking stick known simply as the Blackthorn.Ĭold Steel made the effort to obtain and sell authentic Blackthorn sticks over fifteen years ago, but the venture turned out to be disappointing, and not because the sticks didn't sell well. For history behind the shillelagh blackthorn and the Irish culture. To get around the law, the Irish turned the shillelagh into a 3-foot walking stick. In expert hands the shillelagh was so fearsome that during the final occupation of Ireland, the English outlawed it. The original Blackthorn sticks were 2 to 4 foot long Irish shillelaghs (the national weapon of rural Ireland).
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It has been prized for centuries as a material for premium walking sticks. The ergonomically correct right-angle handle gives this Blackthorn walking stick a nice grip. TIMELESS STYLE: Also known as the Shillelagh, the Irish blackthorn walking stick has a rustic texture and is sealed to protect the wood. The Blackthorn bush is found throughout Ireland and the British Isles. Because blackthorn wood is created in nature, no two sticks are exactly the same.