Options For A Cane?

[jyl]

The sad fact is that for about 1 month a year, I use a cane. I don't think it's right and hope to change it, bt that is what the past year and a half of data shows. Facts is facts, sad or otherwise.

So, is there anything cool, interesting, attractive, or useful I can get in the cane department?

I mean, like:
- A cane with internal alcohol flask that says "I am a lame hobo".
- An elegant polished brass and fine wood thing that says "I may look like a lame hobo but I am actually a gentleman, or I mugged one".
- A deceptively heavy and solid stick that says "I may look like a lame hobo but I am not defenseless against muggers".
- A cane with a sheathed sword blade, that says "sorry you are dying but you shouldn't have mugged a lame hobo".

I will say that, when I am hobbling around with the cane, I do feel a tad weak/vulnerable. Like a target.

Ideas? At one time, didn't every gentleman carry a smart walking stick?

[Schumi]

I think if you can find one that meets all of those criteria, you have a winner.

[Joe Bob]

This gal is making me a cane.....
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[Tobra]

A sword cane is illegal in California, I think.

My brother has one with a flask. Get a shillelagh, the deceptively stout stick.

Why is it you need a cane a month a year?

[TheMentat]

This one would probably serve as a deterrent:



It has a sword in it as well!

[jyl]

Originally Posted by Tobra

A sword cane is illegal in California, I think.

My brother has one with a flask. Get a shillelagh, the deceptively stout stick.

Why is it you need a cane a month a year?

My gout attacks. I need a cane when they are bad, usually only for a couple days, but sometimes they last longer. So far, it's been adding up to about a month a year, that's the cumulative total of the intermittent three-legged periods.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

If it's illegal in Kalifornia that makes me want to have it all the more on general principle.

Sword cane? Cool!

[WolfeMacleod]

Originally Posted by jyl

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- A cane with a sheathed sword blade, that says "sorry you are dying but you shouldn't have mugged a lame hobo".

I have a very good friend who can make you a custom sword-cane.

I have a mop-sword made by him

[Nevergrowup]

Dr. House had a cool one with flames!

[UconnTim97]

Originally Posted by TheMentat

This one would probably serve as a deterrent:



It has a sword in it as well!

I think we have a winner here.

[sc_rufctr]

What about a Military swagger stick?

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[Rot 911]

Originally Posted by jyl

I will say that, when I am hobbling around with the cane, I do feel a tad weak/vulnerable. Like a target.

Not if you are wearing the right outfit!

[Laneco]

Have one made the seperates into num-chucks (I probably didn't spell that right). You know, the sticks attached together that badass ninjas use as weapons and goof balls make really funny u-tube videos with!

(you of course, would be in the badass ninja category).

angela

[BeyGon]

Originally Posted by jyl

My gout attacks. I need a cane when they are bad, usually only for a couple days, but sometimes they last longer. So far, it's been adding up to about a month a year, that's the cumulative total of the intermittent three-legged periods.

Cut back on the red meat and booze, that should help, not as much fun but you save money and don't need the cane.

[futuresoptions]

Bull Penis... or Wax wood....

[Head416]

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[cashflyer]

Carbon Fiber.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

No votes for Cold Steel Katana?

[Steve Viegas]

This is probably not the place to put this, but I am going to do it anyway.

I had gout for 20 years before it was correctly diagnosed. In that time, it went from the simple extemities up/in to my elbos and knees. It was brutal. The term of the attacks trended longer and longer.

When it was finally diagnosed, I was told that I should get on the medication as every attack degraded my joints. Imagine having sand in a joint on your car...not good.

I started on medication about 5 years ago. They gradually upped the dosage and now I can say that I have not had a gout attack in 3 years.

What I am trying to say is forget about the cane and take the medication.

[Tim Hancock]

Why not just make a cane? I hastily made this one as a christmas present for my now deceased grandfather a few years back out of some old cherry wood I found in his barn. It had been cut from his woods about 50 years ago. You can buy the rubber cane tips from the local pharmacy.