Here is a crooked Black Cherry staff...crooked in every direction. It has a simple odd root mass with some drying splits (aka heart checks) here and there along the entire length. The bark stripped clean without a drawknife so there are few tooling marks short of some light scratches from using a wire brush to remove some cambium. It weighs 3# 6ozs and the shaft ranges from 1-1/8" at the bottom to about 2" in diameter near the roots. Overall it stands 71" tall. This is a raw material ready to be customized as you will. (ufws294)