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['thul]

Broken this and broken that. So many things that can break.

These beings have gotten one major step further on the walking stick.
Yesterday they built the capping on the bottom end. first they acquired materials (obviously), then they screwed a large washer wrapped in plastic coated steel wire onto the end (using four screws), further wrapping that into the stick by tightening the wires against four screws somewhat higher on the stick, eventually wrapping the entire bottom section in steel wire.

The next step, both to harden, to protect and to unsharpen the end, they coated the bottom on a few layers of a special homemade mixture of wood adhesive, iron filings and a little of another glue type. Left to dry and rotated fairly regularly till it stopped being drippy, this dried overnight. The end result is a good, hard endcap that does not scratch the floor.
The endcap mix was surprisingly hard and cooperative. These beings will test it this weekend to see how well it holds up and if it needs to be improved for the final version. These beings had no idea when mixing it up whether it would work well.