What is it?
A hand crafted MAGIC staff! Well as magic as something can get, anyway. I've made it out of the finest materals I could find, and meticulously shaved the pith off with razors, sanded it to the smoothness of a baby's ass, and cooked the fungus and bacteria out of the core of it, then gave it a high gloss stain finish.
I'm just trying to figure out how to set zodiac stones in it without weakening the wood.