Here’s an Heirloom quality traditional style cane with a masur birch handle and Madagascar rosewood shaft. This figured birch wood is a beautiful material and unlike any other kind of figure. The figuring in the grain is actually the result of some kind of disease, the exact reason why certain birch trees in Russia and Scandinavia exhibit this figure is unknown. The diseased wood with the figure is only ever on the outside of the tree, and they are small trees, so it can be hard to find suitable material for my work. The grain is bright with a light golden yellow hue and a very fine chatoyance. In the divider is an ancient piece of bone from an extinct animal called the “Steller’s Sea Cow”. This animal went extinct in the 1700’s and was the largest species related to the dugong and manatee. The bone I’ve sourced was excavated from ancient Inuit hunting grounds on St. Lawrence island and it is several thousand years old! The shaft is Madagascar rosewood, a very scarce and desirable timber that is now highly protected, only old stock of this wood that was imported decades ago still remains. It has an ombre of browns ranging from nearly a matching color to the handle on the front to a medium brown on the back . Its a medium weight cane that could be used by most anyone. Total length measures 38” and can be shortened to fit.

M A T E R I A L S

Handle – Masur birch from Russia

Dividers – Brass and Steller’s Sea Cow rib bone from St. Lawrence Island

Shaft – Madagascar Rosewood (Dalbergia Baronii)

Rubber tip

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