Midland’s Don Welch clutched the carved eagle head of his cane in his left hand as he stood talking at the Midland County Fairgrounds’ Gerstacker Center Wednesday.

Hamblin has been using the same walking stick for 34 years. And he carved it himself. Yes, carved, as in knife blade on wood. Why would anyone want to use something as clunky as wood?

Dave Kaiser leans on one of his hand-carved walking sticks in the wood carving shop at his home in Waterloo Monday, March 25, 2013. (BRANDON POLLOCK / Courier Staff Photographer) ...

"Carving walking sticks is a way for the wood carving club to thank our Soldiers for their service and sacrifice," said Maj. Sinclair.

Q: How can I sell a walking stick carved in the shape of a snake? It was made for my husband 30 years ago.

L.D. Powers carved a skull and crossbones and concealed a knife in the handle of a walking stick that he made in January 1939.

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Sentimental wood-carved walking cane, family heirloom stolen from vehicle. Richard Egan is asking for the public's help to find it. (Photo: Richard Egan) ...

Mike Schleuter wants to provide balance to Missouri. Schleuter, otherwise known as “Missouri Mike,” owns and operates Missouri Mike’s Walking Sticks and Canes. A semi-retired photographer ...

STARTUP -- Walking sticks line two walls in Art King's eclectic workshop in Startup, a hamlet of 676 souls east of Monroe.

On his recent trip to the Vatican, President Bush presented Pope Benedict XVI with one of Wilkerson's hand-carved walking sticks inscribed with the Ten Commandments.