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Eastern Woods Outdoors Custom Sticks

trailblazer75 said:
Yeah I know. What I'm saying is that it basically looks like the guy who does the design and fab work for OOAL looked at @DanO stuff and made his sticks based on that design.
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I have a set of custom Dano sticks and I have the SHikars and they honestly are nothing alike besides that they are both climbing sticks.
 
NikoTheBowHunter said:
I’d put my custom ultralight DanO stick up against a beast stick any day of the week. I’m sorry but the beast stick doesn’t hold a candle to these ultra lights that can be built from parts from DanO.

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I was being kind to Dan Infalt. And your stick costs slightly more to produce.
I use an EWO stick too. I have used homemade sticks with parts from various places - such as @ImThere and EWO for two years. I sold my beast sticks.
Some guys are not DIY types and beast sticks are cheaper. So I did not want to run them down.

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Here’s what my EWO sticks weigh. These have drilled posts. And all components came from EWO


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Jefferson10940 said:
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Here’s what my EWO sticks weigh. These have drilled posts. And all components came from EWO


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Beast sticks are a similar weight depending on the strap, and stealth strips actually weigh something
I have made lighter EWO sticks. You lighten it by changing the strap and use 3/32 aluminium which is hard to get and drill it appropriately it gets lighter.

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Ontariofarmer said:
Which do you prefer. I have never tried Shikar sticks.


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Not sure, last season I had the LWCG and EWO and always grabbed the EWO so I sold the LWCG. Then I couldn’t help myself and bought the shikars. I have been messing with them and made a few climbs but I can not honestly compare them yet besides packability. Shikars win in that category.


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Jefferson10940 said:
Not sure, last season I had the LWCG and EWO and always grabbed the EWO so I sold the LWCG. Then I couldn’t help myself and bought the shikars. I have been messing with them and made a few climbs but I can not honestly compare them yet besides packability. Shikars win in that category.


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I always grabbed the EWO sticks so I sold the beast sticks.


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I like being able to order stuff from them but to build a set of sticks piece meal you are better off just buying beast stiks or the LW customs. Its cheaper. I just bought some 1" square tube and took the stand offs off my LW sticks and bought 4 steps from from them and used the rest of the parts from my LW sticks and ended up with a sweet set of 4 semi custom sticks for $100 bucks. Shawn
 
NikoTheBowHunter said:
Stick (28.1 oz / 1.7 lbs) w/ 9ft 9mm rope (6.5 oz / .4 lbs) = 34.6 oz / 2.1lbs
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If you use a 5 mm or 6 mm tech cord you will be 1.8 pounds

The rating on some of those cords exceeds 4000 pounds

I have used that type of cord for two years

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My cam cleat takes a max rope size of 6mm. I run a full bury 7/64 amsteel rope on mine.

I love my EWO built one sticks & @DanO is a fine gentleman that I like to give as much business to as my wallet can handle.


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A rhonstan Carbon medium cam cleat is rated 3 to 12 mm rope. It has never slipped on my 5 mm rope


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RF5010 | Ronstan Sailboat Hardware World

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A link to my cam cleat


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This is the rope I use. Expensive but rated at 5000 pounds.

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Maxim 5mm Techcord | MEC

5mm Techcord: A high-strength, lightweight cord for slinging hexes, solid stem friends and more. It is stronger, more supple, and more durable, with a higher melting point than spectra o
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A full bury on some Amsteel would work. Maybe 3/16

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Deerman406 said:
I like being able to order stuff from them but to build a set of sticks piece meal you are better off just buying beast stiks or the LW customs. Its cheaper. I just bought some 1" square tube and took the stand offs off my LW sticks and bought 4 steps from from them and used the rest of the parts from my LW sticks and ended up with a sweet set of 4 semi custom sticks for $100 bucks. Shawn
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You are correct it’s way cheaper just to buy sticks. However I built mine over a year ago made them 20” long. A year ago you couldn’t get 20” sticks. Now they are all the rage. I was cool and didn’t even know it.
 
I built an EWO stick with a cam cleat specifically for one sticking.
I was reluctant to put a cam cleat on a beast stick because it would make it harder to re sell.
When you make your own you can build it exactly the way you want. It can be made for a 200 pound hunter or a 300 pound hunter.
And it is a simple DIY project that is fun. And yes it is more expensive.


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