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hmm difficult one. my practice staffs have never lookd like that!

ill post some pics of my staff when i get home, but i normally use bear wood or metal and engrave the matal to make them look pretty, bar the grip and teh conater tape tahta about it, sorry im very boring!



laterdays

Step (el-nombrie)

Ohh my beautiful 5ft doubles (with many many thanks to Mr Buecat ) have gold and silver tape making them look spankingly pretty

I love watching the gold sparkle when sunlights hits it (on sunny days that is )

Love and light sticks

Lisa
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Ben I like your staff style

Mech can you put Bams was here in spirit on them (just for me).. when you daaaannnnn saaaaaaffffff next???

Love and long flaming doubles

Lisa
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A kiss blown is a kiss wasted, the only kind of kiss is a kiss tasted.

I'm a woman. We don't say what we want, but we reserve the right to be pissed off if we don't get it. That's what makes us so fascinating and not just a LITTLE bit scary.

My own are pretty boring...

The pair I made for girlfriend for christmas are beautifull

They're wood and have complex celtic / tribal pattern burnt all over the exposed wood using a soldering iron (hours of fun but worth it ). Then they are varnished and sanded for a finish. The ends near the wicks are covered with aluminium tape.

The grip is made out of green and red hemp string. I didn't have the time or the expertise at the time, but I'm going to carve away the handle so that the string is fluch with the rest of the wood.

I live in a world of infinite possibilities.

my sticks (wot i hardly ever use cos i don't know how they work) were made by one mr blackass of scotsedinburghland.



i stripped them, sanded them, spray-painted them with matt black oven paint and gripped with bicycle inner tubes.



decoration on these black beauties is minimal - red insulating tape on one, white tape on the other.



will be switching the red tape to white (with more stripes along the length this time rather than just to secure the grip and to mark a centrepoint) after their next respray



guess i should probably burn them one day...

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i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
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ok after going on about them i finaly took some pics of my new staffs!

one is for contact and teh otehr for fire, can you decide which?

there is also a vid in tehre to show the pyrograhie(sp?) work i did when i burnt a design onto a wooden staff! (its tiny with no sound, and about 1.1mb big, so if you rekon its worth it, pls feel free!)

mechs staff

laterdays



ps bams, check ur email and the answers will be : revieled!

Step (el-nombrie)

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i weep profusely as i never was lucky enough to have practice staves
but i do decorate my fire staves with fuel

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Step (el-nombrie)

Ive got a broomstick! rescued from having staples in it. is brown and dirty on the ends, nice and smooth, slightly bashed.....



T

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perhaps my firestix can ba considered practice staves, cus mr Bovril wreckons that a lot of aussie staffers have real thin/short stix!
mech ur cool

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I dont really practice with my practice staff but my fire staff has groovey bright pink holographic tape on it just either side of the handle. But reading all the cool things you've done with your staffs i may have to find my old broomstick and decorate it

On a slightly different note; is there any way to get rid of the horrid black soot stains on an aluminium staff? Getting the excess soot off is easy but it still leaves yukky stains, any tips?

Ta muchly

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i dont have a broomstick

T

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Quote:
Ive got a broomstick! rescued from having staples in it. is brown and dirty on the ends, nice and smooth, slightly bashed.....



T



and now

Quote:
i dont have a broomstick

T



what happened man?

Step (el-nombrie)

i left it in the bongo in edinburgh

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They're wood and have complex celtic / tribal pattern burnt all over the exposed wood using a soldering iron (hours of fun but worth it ). Then they are varnished and sanded for a finish. The ends near the wicks are covered with aluminium tape..



ysee i tried the burning thing when i made my staffs. broom handles varnished and leather bound. i wanted to get some patterns and went as far as designing the celtic or aztec patterns i wanted but the soldering iron just would not burn the wood!!
seriously i tried for ages.
i thought you need a special burny tool clearly i just have a sub standard soldering iron

my original signature was tooo long.
this one is shorter

yeah,

you get special 'pens' for burning work, they are hotter than soldering irons and have a finer tip. If you get a good soldering iron they are hot enough, but they are more expensive.

T

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