I like your project. Here's what I really like about it. You can carry the knife in it sheath and use the walking stick in any public area, hiking trail, or park and not cause alarm, but in a flash you can have a 6 foot spear for self defense.

Just finished mine this week. I found these chair leg tips also at Home Depot, The Bushman at Midway USA, the flashlight strap at Four Sevens and added a hand grip for a cain. The hand grip is nice and slips on the staff with a little soap but dried up tight. Using it now when I walk the dog in case we encounter any rabid or aggressive strays....

Incredibly enthusiastic commentary i am definitely not sleeping right now

Thanks for taking the time to post your thoughts and knowledge for others.... I was raised to hunt, fish, enjoy the outdoors with my family but just recently started getting equipment and supplies together, (Other than standard bulky heavy camping stuff that I already have) Times are tough and I started out slow... Made my owm alcohol stove, fishing kits, first aid, ect, Getting ready to invest in quality cutting tools, and packs large enough to haul my gear..(Your knife vids have been extremely helpful... And I sincerely thank you again, you've saved me from a lot of mistakes..) Anyway, I just wanted to maybe offer up a suggestion.... To save from drilling several additional holes in your Walking stick/spear and possibly weakening the end of it...Since you already have an eyelet in the end maybe drill holes in the attachments where they line up with the eyelet and use a lynch pin or some other type of pin so that you can easily and quickly change them out, and not risk losing them in the water or the knife pulling off the end of the stick after stabbing an animal with it...Thought I would throw that out there...

FYI, the screw hole isn't to keep the bushman on the pole, it is to keep the pole from getting jammed into the socket and not being able to break the knife loose from the pole. Cheers!

Awesome vid, will be making two, one for myself and one for my younger son who hunts. A very useful item here in Oklahoma. Thanks Chris and keep them coming.

I had unsubscribed a while ago for some reason I can't even remember at the moment, but this video got me back. The sheer utility of this stick, the minor modifications, and the Bushman all won me over. I'm planning to build a stick like this very soon if not today. Excellent tips and a great demonstration. Thanks, and keep the vids coming.

Excellent! I think I'll do this for my next navigational cane. The price inflation on those has gotten way out of control, and the metal eye on the end, to me, would be the most perfect tip, for sound and detail. Plus all these additional uses you've mentioned. I like getting the most out of everything I have to carry all the time.

Nice job. I'm making one. I'm thinking para cord and fishing line wraps as well. Brilliant!!

One of the best DIY weapons tutorials I have seen, I'm goin shoppin! :)

Thanks Chris to share your knowledge. Knew most but not everything. Like the idea with the handle.

Nice work , awesome multi stick/staff going to try it out .

With the new sheath, or the old one?

this is awesome...very versatile...I will definitely be making my own...thanks for posting

One of your best videos ever

Excellent video sir !! I definitely am going to start working on this project. Talk about a kick-ass multi-tool and weapon. You came up with some really cool modifications. 5 stars 👍🏼⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

They are called spontoons.They were popular in the US after the Revolutionary War up to the Civil War. One of the early naturalists walked from illinois to Florida with one. John Muir in California used them as well. Your design is excellent. Thanks for sharing.

Any decent sporting goods store that sells hockey stuff.

Thanks for another great DIYV!

I don't know if I mentioned it in THIS video, but if you use it as a spear, you need to use the wood screw. That isn't to keep it from falling off...it's to keep it from becoming permanently lodged on after impact.

Thanks for the tip, very informative video. Absolutely handy thing.

This is pretty brilliant, man. Good vids. Thanks.

Good vid. I like these how to videos better than some of the current sponsored vid reviews. Blade hq finally got the bushman back in. Nice knife and good value.

Nice. Thank you for the inspiration.

U could also turn it into a flail, great vid chris!

the best reviews ever!!!

i've also made a walking stick like this; however, i made it for travels over ice and deep snow. It has metal screw on the end ( the head side) to grip ice, and has rubber for handle and grip... i would like to see a video on this , and see what you could come up with .... GREAT video....

Very interesting video. Alot of usefulness on that stick. Thanks for sharing :)

Awesome brother 👏🙌 good tips simple and inexpensive . In for sure

Great idea!

I was just talking to someone yesterday about something similar and I remember watch this video so I had to watch again...

Great ideas, great video, very informative

Pretty cool... Thanks for the video

Very creative! I got to go and make one, cause it is rsttle snake country here. Thanks!

Great tool I am about to set one up for my wife because she just started walking with her cousin most evenings and in our part of the world its gonna be snake season for a few more months and I figured this was a good solution!!!!

Basically...stick the pointy end in the animal you wish to eat. No set way.

I will have to make one of these. Did you think of making it with the large cold steel blowgun? That would increase you options.

Great job.. Congrats..

Where do you buy your grip tape? im in indy.... and for some reason I cant get any! HELP!

Great idea, however, I was thinking about build one like this one, but with the blade already attached to it, maybe hidden somehow, because if a mad dog comes running to you, you don't have time to pull your knife from shear to attach it to the stick. Any recommendation about it? Thanks in advance.

really like this video. new project for me!

GREAT VID....GREAT IDEAS.....

I don't walk around with the tips on. Just like a knife, if you aren't using it, its put away.

Good job👍

Great video and as a girl I love the accessorizing. LOL! I also like the fact a teenage boy could use this as protection and survival tools for fishing and hunting without license.

Great video. I used a United Cutlery Columbian Warrior Spear Head and coated my handle with Flex Seal. If it wears down I'll recoat it with Truck Bed Liner. Thanks.

Neither you nor I have the cahoonies to take on a pissed off feral boar with that. But a coyote that wants dinner, that may be useful.

Love that survival DIY survival stick you did..! I know it was 6 years ago but hey I found it..:) anyway was wondering if you did any more mods too it or if you found anything better..? Hell maybe you still use it.. Anyway love your Chanel..!

add a house clamp and a hunk of surgical tubing to the end when your getting frogs and ya can zing out there pretty good

if that I screw is secure you could also use it as a tether for a flail

I have a double edged marine corps dagger to put on the end of mine :) Unfortunately it does not have the hollow handle to slide over the end...

I don't think you'd need to do that since it is a processed piece of wood. That's only really necessary with stuff you cut down yourself.

for my spear tip instead of buying something or attaching my knife i found a old butter-knife/letter-opener i don't know winch it is but its its probably 9in long the handle is flat an 4in by 3/16 in thick i cut the spear shaft with a hack saw so i could attach it it works good enough the top with a cut also helps keep my frog and fish gig on without much help i drill a hole some way down and still tey a peace of 550 around the tine thin through the hole just to be safe

LOL I thought his phone was ringing off the hook. It was a woodpecker. I guess he didn't care that prepared mind101 was taping. Thanks for the chuckle

nice mods , what kinda tape is that hockey ?

Well, the wood you want if you can get it is hickory. Properly treated with mineral and tung oil it becomes nearly impossible to break. Also the tung oil makes it nice and grippy. If you can't find hickory, see about an oak staff. As for height, you want something that is minimally an inch or two higher than your eye level. Getting the staff too short is very dangerous, and you could easily cut off some dearly attached part of yourself should you trip and fall while carrying the spear. Typically the kinds of woods used for utility handles aren't properly conditioned and if they break you're in trouble. There are other hard woods that will work, but those are the two best, and of the two hickory is the best. I've also harvested my own, but getting them straight requires some additional work. If you do use a wood you've harvested cover the ends with some sort of material that is a water barrier so that it doesn't split during the drying process. It will usually split at the ends because that's where the moisture evaporates the fastest.

Should be. Put it on last night. You may have gotten to it before I got the annotations on.

could you tell me where to buy the flashlight hand grip i cant acces the 4 7's web site

So how do you hunt with it?

John P Thompson invented the Phillips screw then sold the patent to Henry F Phillips which is where it got its name.

Good video!!

awesome

Chris have you found anything better, or is this working out for you. I haven't seen it since 2013. Just wondering if it's worth it. Keep it up.

Add some tubing to the end and us like a Hawaiian sling for fish , quick release and some extra power .

What size is the staff? 1inch?

Awesome

Nice gig

sweet vid

You can make that 4 7s wrap thing with an old bike inner tube.

Something I relized is the circle at the end thread line thru it and boom a fishing pole

not sure why you'd need to cut open bottles in a survival situation, idk maybe youre thirsty and the bottle caps are stuck. Made me laugh sooo friggin hard!

Hey, man is the grip tape, is it like tacky sticky? Or is it like gritty skateboard, or airplane wing walk grip sandpaapery type, lol. I can't tell thanks

Midway USA has the Bushman for $27.99 free shipping

Ok thanks

great one 🔪✨

multi walking staff thats what it should be called thinking about making one

get you a cold steel billhook or swiss halberd or some other sort of socket axe that you could use as an axe what Pro chopping down larger trees in case you need to build a log cabin

That's a nice way to go for a survival staff , I looked on Cold steels web site but couldn't find the blade you used for the end of your walking stick. What is the blade called on their web site ?

You have several good ideas for the staff. However, being shorter than you actual height it's easier to injure and impale yourself should you slip and fall.

is that a green screen?

Wouldn't work because its too thin, but good thinking.... outside the box.

Built one very much like this. Bought a hickory broom handle at Lowe's picked up a rubber foot for a bar stool there to. Wrapped some bank line and paracord on it. Got my bushman with the new sheath loven it. Put a screw in the bushman if your going to use as a spear or it will jam on to handle bitch to get off. Also carry a frog gig a bit smaller then yours. Caught a couple fish with it don't tell the fish and game guys. Good vids thanks for all the good info.

Cool

This is genius.

I just had a (good?) idea you should try. tie some shock cord to a tree, and the other end to a pocket chainsaw. as you pull on it, it cuts whatever, and as you let go, the shock cord pulls it, might help cut a little bit. you can make an excuse to carry shock cord by putting it on you walking staff, connect it from the loop thing at the top and somewhere to the bottom, maybe use it as an improvised bow?

Остриё стрелы, также как наконечник копья. ВСЕГДА!!! Должен быть кинжальной формы если конечно ты хочешь вернуться живым с охоты или войны. Хотя и такое гуано лучше чем ничего:)

Hollowing out the stick significantly reduces it's structural integrity. Keep it simple and functional like Chris does.

The spear should have at least been your hight the way you have it you fall it cuts off your nose or scars your face

You better save the cane tip you might need it to when you are old people. Ha, Ha

New one

New sheath with fire starter

Why buy that hand grip when I can just make out of a ranger band

HA! Bottles! Pretty funny guy here.

um i am on a pc and its not there. ?

Walking stick Pritty cool. Mine is the cold steel leather neck. When 0n a hike I mount it on a stick. But I have a 357 mag on the my hip just in case I run into a pissed off bigfoot lol 😁🙏 ✝ 🔪 🔫

lash a yo yo reel to the staff, snare or fish

The strap is at w w w . foursevens . com / products/UQE5 for a quark handgrip

The first time you get in a serious jam with that knife spear- if its not secured with a screw (plus a 2ndary securing device even if its only tape) that thing is going to fly off the handle then so will you. Just sayin.

In late 2960s at a state park 5 teenage boys came down the the trail, 2 of them had walking sstaffs which had spear heads,i said hay,listen just so you know if a ranger sees that spear they'll stop u give u a ticket for having that in a state park and they may even take u to jail,one is that right, i said tberes a ranger at the packing lot doing a park check for picnicers for alcohol he see you with that u'er in trouble, u better take it off the shaff,save youself soome trouble. When i got to the parking the one kid came up to me and said thank you for the heads up. Where did you get something like that from,whats it made of, my dad made it from lite steel it come into 4 pieces and a attachment at the end of it,its got a hammer,spear head saw and about 14 other things for survival, tell your dad its totally awesome ,how can i get one ,it woud cost about 300 dollars

I don't view this channel 4 Comedy and if I did I certainly would not find anything funny at the expense of another. I watch to see reviews on here and ideas. I may not agreed with everything sad but I support your right to yo,ur opinion. my comment was to the poster of the video. It may have been the fact that I have to World War 2 combat vets as friends. maybe because the research across America program was fresh in my heart. It is something I feel strongly about and while you may not agree with me, it is my right to my opinion. I started making Spears for frog gigging back in the 1970s. I have opinions about the types of spearheads for different applications.