leather cane

[Sanch]

On 11/11/2017 at 9:36 PM, thunter9 said:

not going very fast but winters here

 

How's the cane coming?

[thunter9]

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i'm to old to be under the gun. lol i'm still peening the end and with the holidays i'm moving in that direction

 

[Talaman]

Sounds interesting.

Geoff

[rodneywt1180b]

On 11/5/2017 at 11:26 AM, thunter9 said:

after i get the one end peened to as large as i want about 1/2 inch , got a ways to go. as for the cane tip i'll go with a cane rubber tip over the peened end. want it to grip not slide around. the antique one i found is just the peened end. just want to protect the floor. i've thought i'd chuck it up in a lathe to sand it down , but thought better of it for cheating. want it all by hand  the old one i have is probably rusted and that's why its so flexible .i've been kicking this around for years and thought it was time.

 

I should have thought about this earlier.

For the tip if you start with a short section of wood you can buy a nice tip for the end.  No need to peen the bottom end either.

Start with about a 3" long section of a decent hardwood.  Drill about 1 1/2" into it the same diameter as your steel and epoxy it to the end.  That will give you something to mount the tip to. 

Lee Valley makes some nice tips.  They run about $15 IIRC.

After all that work I would want a nice looking tip on the end.

Rodney

 

[Northmount]

You can also drill and tap the correct thread size in the wood, and avoid having to epoxy it.  Good wood threads very nicely.  Makes it removable if you want.

Tom