The Blackthorn, Cold Steel provides an answer.

The Cold Steel replica Irish blackthorn walking stick resembles the blackthorn knob stick found throughout Ireland and the British Isles. This is a quite wonderful and sturdy replica blackthorn from the team at Cold Steel. Heavy in weight, can be used as a stick for support and balance.

Like other Cold Steel products some have trained with such sticks to be used in the martial arts.

Choose between 37" standard stick or 59" long staff.

Cold Steel’s recent forays into injected molded polypropylene products has yielded some impressive results and now they have produced a new polypropylene Blackthorn that has all of the advantages of a real Blackthorn and none of its pitfalls.

These Irish Blackthorn Walking Sticks are inspired by an authentic Blackthorn from a private collection. It was copied carefully, and then artfully modified to a point where it not only mimics nature, but actually rivals and supersedes anything the natural world could produce! If nature had fashioned the most perfect Blackthorn stick, and you were lucky enough to come by it, this Irish Blackthorn Walking Stick is what it would look like. It’s a superb faux Blackthorn stick, and since it’s injection molded from polypropylene, it will never warp, crack, swell up, or splinter and is easy to maintain with a little soap and water.

• Shaft: polypropylene, 1.375 inch tapering to 1.0 in.
• Handle: 2.75 in. diameter, polypropylene
• 37 inch length or 59" length staff
• Knob diameter: 2.75 in.
• Weight: 28.2 oz (approximately). Staff weight is 3 lbs.
• Tip: polypropylene, integrated in cane.
• Weight capacity: 250 lb.