Sticks and Bonnets?

[Bugbear]

As far as a walking stick, I have been using a stick around my gardens and orchard that was once a part of a garden tool. It's probably ash and must have been the handle of a square shovel. It is tapered to the end and has long deep cracks along it's length as those type of un-finnished handles tend to develop out in the weather. Kind of reminds me of the old fence posts you find out here in the South West.

It needs a hand-grip top to it and probably a tip of some sort which would just about make it a good length for a walking stick. If it were staned to darken the crackes, sanded smooth, then a light finnish added, it might have a little character.
It's on the short and heavy side for a cane, but I've been using it around the property lately, and it's not too bad. Just an idea.

For a stick used as a mobility cane... The wooden handle of my claw rake or a broom handle would be a better size and width. Some of the aluminum canes have a small crook at the top, but it can get in the way at times.

The one in the pictures folds up and is made of graphite fibers somewhat like the fishing poles now a days. It is covered in a reflective white tape, and they usually have red tape on the bottom eight to ten inches.