So last month, I finished two wands for my friends as belated Christmas gifts (I have a bad habit of putting things off). I don't know the wood of this one, but I decided to leave on the layers of bark for the handle because I liked the contrast that it had to the shaft of the wand. I didn't decorate it so as to make the wand look as natural and simple as possible.
With this one (which is what I believe to be birch), I woodburned eyes over the knots because my friend loves to draw that style of eyes, so I decorated the wand with them to make her wand personal. The taper on the end is a bit thick in order to give it a stake look, like the kind that Odysseus used to blind Polyphemus. Because of this, she calls it a weapon; I don't have any problem with that as long as no one is blinded or killed.
