Gallery I - Pocket Wands
Our pocket wands are very popular for the witch on the go. Ovates and cunning women who work in the field healing, divining, or transfiguring the energies of the land, like to have a wand that can be concealed in a handbag or small inner pocket. Our pocket wand class is defined by a length under 12 inches and priced at an affordable $72. Custom pocket wands with elaborate or extensively difficult carving are usually bumped up to the $171 level. All those pictured here are at the regular pocket wand price.
No. 669. Mahogany Pocket
Mahogany, 10 inches, phoenix feather core. Mahogany is a tropical hardwood of great dignity and strength, as well as beauty. Finished only with oil it has a golden sheen which will darken with age. James Potter had a mahogany wand in the Harry Potter novels. This one is very simple and unadorned. Shaped on a lathe and finished by hand. Click to enlarge.
No. 686. Hazel Pocket Wand
10 inches. Gryphon feather core. Carved in the center section with the Irish word Imbas in ogham, meaning "inspiration." A spiral motif panel on the reverse. Another view below showing the oghams (read from the bottom up).
No. 111. Apple Pocket Wand with Silver Bells
8 inches. Black unicorn hair core. Silver bells and wire, a carved spiral and helix twined up the shaft with an inscription in Elvish Artorin letters (see Runelore). Very handy size. Lovely tinkling music to the bells.
No. 653. Black Walnut Pocket Wand
9 inches. Black Unicorn hair core. An combination of lathe-turned elements and hand-carving. Set with a large and very clear quartz crystal reservoir. This wand was made particularly for weather-working and has been credited with some rather astonishing spells. Walnut is a wood sacred to the Sky Father and Lord of Winds, called Valma by the Elves, Taranis by the Gauls, and Zeus by the Greeks.
No 3. Oak with Lapis Lazuli
10 inches, griffin feather core. The Lapis lazuli is placed on the tip and secured with leather wrapping. The pommel is a small carved acorn. Oak leaf and acorns carved along the shaft. Beaded threads added for flair.
No. 7. Apple Pocket Wand
10 inches. Unicorn hair. A very simple apple wand with a carved helix, acorn reservoir, serpentine shapes and a star.
No. 666. Ebony Triple-Headed Pocket Wand
9 inches. Dragonscale core. Like three jack o'lanterns these three faces seem to laugh and cry from this powerful little ebony wand. Ebony is a very energetic wood and not to be toyed with. The 3 heads on this one have faces on both sides and godnames carved in the intervening spaces in Elvish Rianar (see Runelore). Because ebony is so difficult to carve, this one is priced at $99. Designed by Azrienoch, my apprentice.
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