Quote Originally Posted by Brasilikilt
The best Shillelaghs spend a year buried in manure

Would that be to add insult to injury perhaps?
It's bad enough to get wacked with an Irish super stick, but one which has been stewing in feces for a year.........YUCK!

I think I'll experiment with Ipe' a.k.a. South American ironwood which is an incredibly dense and heavy variety of hardwood which contains high levels of silica

This has gotten to be a very interesting subject........Does anyone have pics of their Cromachs or Shillelaghs to show off??
Yeah, but that year spend stewing in manure or a peat bog and then spending some time smeared in fat or butter and left in a chimney to cure turns the darn thing in to petrified wood just about.

For a while, here in an antique store, there was an Irish Shillelagh for sale. Amazing beautiful thing it was. At the top, somebody had cleverly affixed a long curled ram's horn as the handle, set in to the knob of the club with poured silver. The antique shop was asking for over five grand for the thing. It had been used to kill some such person or another, I forget who. It came with papers and legal documents stating that it was what it claimed to be. Some poor Irish guy clubbed somebody important, I dunno who, clubbed this fellow to death with this Shillelagh, and fled to America sometime around the late 1800s. He brought his noodle knocker with him.

When I saw it, it was so beautiful in design that a single big fat tear welled up in my eye. I'd love to have a ram's horn Shillelagh.