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New
Hand-turned

Canes & Walking Sticks

I am in the process of developing my own line of hand-made canes and walking sticks turned on my lathe. As I get more practice I plan to also make some "gadget" canes with hidden features such as flasks, (maybe an mp3 player & earphones??), items for self defence etc.

I'm making "Green" canes.

-Except for occasional exotic woods, most of the material I am using is "recycled" wood that is purchased from a local non-profit company that salvages used or surplus material and fixtures from home remodeling projects.

Two of my first proto-types.

The left-hand example is a maple shaft "japanned" (painted gloss black to simulate ebony, or lacquer) with a copper collar and a brass knob.

The right-hand example has a solid oak shaft with a copper collar and an ebony head.

Two Canes

lion head caneLion's Head Cane

A "vintage" hand-carved lion's head handle remounted on a new oak shaft with a brass collar to reinforce the joint.
lion head cane
Dagger Cane

A modern screw-on brass handle fitted with a short blade, and a maple shaft "japanned" with gloss black paint.

dagger cane
Naughty Nutsuke Cane

A reproduction of a slightly naughty Japanese netsuke figure carved to look like a man's head with his features made up of women's bodies. It is cast in ivory-colored resin and fitted as the handle of an oak walking stick.

Netsuke Cane

New!
"An Informal look at Wood Turning Through the Ages " CD-rom

This is a collection of the various illustrations on early turning that I have found over the last ten years and is intended to assist others who are interested in experimenting with these machines of the past. My interest has been in pre-industrialized turning, so there is little here about the commercially manufactured lathes, and nothing about modern motorized turning.

Included on the disk:

All 86 plates from Denis Diderot's  L'art du Tourneur (1775)

Selected plates from Charles Plumier's D'art de Tourner (1706)

All turning-related plates from from Joseph Moxon's Mechanick Exercises (1678)

Dozens of other illustrations I have collected, as well as notes that I have made on the history of turning from various primary and secondary sources.

Simple plans for two of the lathes I have built and experimented with.

Mac and Windows compatable.
$20.00 + $2.00 shipping

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