Here’s a modern handled ancient cane with dense, dark, and beautiful woods. The handle is ancient Red Gum wood from Australia, It spent 10,000 thousand years buried in a river bed! Slowly over the millennia being stained darker and darker by mineral exposure but deprived of oxygen thus preventing decay. Pulled out a few years ago, carefully dried, and today it works and feels just like it was cut from a modern tree! It's lightly curl figured as well. Though very dark this cane is also chatoyant and in brighter environments its grain is visible, but at a glance this cane will appear nearly black. A pop of deep red amboyna burl and German silver leads into the dark macassar ebony shaft. Cane weight is medium but on the heavier end, it feels like dense, quality hardwood, good for daily use by most anyone. Total length measures 38" and can be shortened to fit.

The last image is of a red gum tree, an ancient one of a different sort, standing for hundreds of years. Inside the tree is my Australian wood supplier who left this tree alone, he salvage harvests.

M A T E R I A L S

Handle – Curl figured Ancient Red Gum from Australia
Divider - Amboyna Burl from Vietnam and German Silver
Shaft – Macassar Ebony from Indonesia
Rubber tip

Every Gillis Cane is a photographed original, you’ll always receive the exact cane in the images.