“It wants to be a walking stick,” he decided, so he shaped the limb with his grinder, then finished the cane with carving knives and several coats of poly. Oscar made a second cane, and this ...

Tim Anson has been creating walking sticks since he was a child, having started after his father gave him a penknife on his eighth birthday.

The process begins with finding the right diameter tree trunk for a walking stick. After cutting the tree down, depending on the wood, the bark is whittled off.