Cold Steel Irish Blackthorn Walking Stick
The Cold Steel Irish Blackthorn Walking Stick 91PBS bush is found throughout Ireland and the British Isles. It has been prized for centuries as a material for premium walking sticks. The original Blackthorn sticks were 2 to 4 foot long Irish shillelaghs (the national weapon of rural Ireland). In expert hands the shillelagh was so fearsome that during the final occupation of Ireland, the English outlawed it.
To get around the law, the Irish turned the shillelagh into a 3-foot walking stick. 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.
Cold 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. It was because Blackthorn is difficult to
come by and, since it’s grown and not manufactured, it is somewhat inconsistent
in quality.
Cold Steel’s recent forays into injected molded polypropylene products
has yielded some impressive results and now Cold Steel has produced a new polypropylene
Cold Steel Irish Blackthorn Walking Stick 91PBS that has all of the advantages
of real Blackthorn and none of its pitfalls.
The Cold Steel Irish Blackthorn Walking Stick 91PBS is inspired by an authentic
Blackthorn from Cold Steel President, Lynn C. Thompson’s private collection.
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, Cold Steel’s Irish Blackthorn
Walking Stick 91PBS is what it would look like. 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.
Specifications:
- Model: Cold Steel Irish Blackthorn Walking Stick 91PBS
- Weight: 28.2 oz.
- Head: 2 3/4"
- Material: Polypropylene
- Overall: 37"
- Thick: 1" (Base) 1 3/8" (Neck)
Contents:
- Cold Steel Irish Blackthorn Walking Stick