What length should my stick be?
- For a short walking stick usually hip height.
- For a market stick or crook, minimum of elbow height.
- Thumb sticks will be longer and generally a couple of inches higher than the elbow.
What do these terms mean?
- Cleek or leg cleek: A smaller sized crook used to catch sheep by a hind leg.
- Collar or spacer: A slice of horn,metal, bone or hardwood decorating the joint between shank and handle.
- Crown: The highest point of the curved top of a handle.
- Crook: Designed by shepherds to catch a sheep by the neck.
- Fancy: A decoratively carved handle.
- Ferrule: The metal cap fitted to the tip of the stick to prevent from wear.
- Head: The part of the stick which forms the handle.
- Heel: The point at which the neck of a handle begins to form the crown.
- Neck: Vertical length of handle from the stick joint to the heel.
- Shank or shaft: The wood section fitted to handle.
- Nose: The point at which the handle finishes.