Selection
The stick in the image above is from a willow tree and is approximately 28″ long. I had already started working on it before I set up this website so some of the bark has been striped off compared to how it looked in the image in the previous phase (the images were taken over a year apart).
Since most of the short sticks I make are roughly the same length I don’t spend too much time picking out which branch I will use. In this case I picked one at random.