Please check out part 1 here. A number of different tree types will produce suitably straight shoots. Dog-woods are good, Hazel, Alder maybe? Just use your judgement, and experiment a bit. Assembly. (In fact, one ‘prepares’ one’s birch) Your chosen twigs (that doesn’t feel like quite the right description but I…
Encouraged by the popularity of my little ‘A Beginners Guide to – Being Caned – Part One‘ series, and because I made reference to the historical (Victorian) use of The Birch Rod as the preferred choice of implement for corporal punishment, I thought that some of you might feel sufficiently…
It seems to be a particularly British ‘instrument of correction’. Other European countries favour(ed) a variety of implements, many utilising various forms of leather and ranging from single rod-like whips that were probably designed for horses, through to multi-thonged flexible whips and scourges. And no list of classic European…
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