Here's a simple little spindle project, hair sticks, nice gifts for friends with long hair. Very quick and easy to make!!
Cherry burl, olive, b&w ebony, eastern red cedar, mahogany, and gabon ebony.
We have several friends who like to use sticks to hold long hair out of the way. I took these to a friend in Italy.
While she was trying them out I took a short video of her teaching a 4-second twist-and-stab securing method. A veterinarian friend said she puts up her hair when about to wrangle a horse or alpaca. Both prefer the sticks to those stretchy hair things.
A few frames from the video clip:
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I make hair sticks from almost any species, sometimes textured a bit or made with some variation in diameter for better holding. I generally start with a 7" to 9" blank maybe 5/8" square.
JKJ