My favorite canes on sale at the Carroll Center!

[kestrell]

I've been special ordering Ambutech canes from Canada for decades, but I guess now you can get them from the Carroll Center. They come in crazy bright colors, though I don't see my purple one there, and of course the glow-in-the-dark stars and planets are a custom job...
Ambutech Hi-Lite canes
https://carroll.org/product/hi-lite-canes/?bblinkid=243960705&bbemailid=24911953&bbejrid=1678680327

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Snazzy!

How long does a collapsible cane last for you?

(I've used both collapsible and one-piece walking sticks. I love how quiet and durable the one-piece are, and they're a total pain in the ass to store when I'm not walking.)

[kestrell]

I don't travel much, so a cane can last me for years. When I was going to college/grad school, canes lasted more like three years but, man, were they scarred and beat up! I liked the implication of "Yes, things that don't move out of my way get pummeled." A former housemate used to quote from a Stephen Brust book: "When all you have is a stick, everything looks like kneecaps."

I know other cane users mak their canes last much longer by doing small repairs, but the usual sign of cane death for me was when the paracord inside got too stretched for the cane to snap open when unfolded. The cane companies sell repair kits, but I've noticed they never sell the paracord. I have a roll of purple paracord that I bought on Amazon which I'm going to try when this purple cane begins to wear out.

Also, I keep ordering replacement cane tips, which then disappear into unlocatable corners of the house, so I have to buy more. Over the past year I've found about twelve, and I'm sure there are at least a dozen more in the back of various closets.

I agree that the one-piece canes are usually preferable, but a bother to stow when you go places.

[jesse_the_k]

I love the Brust quote!

I'm imagining that a sufficiently large stack of replacement cane tips can reach fission and transubstantiate into a new cane.

[kestrell]

Since our house ate/consumed/transubstantiated one of my canes--the one-piece with the weighted metal handle--I think that is the actual source of the infinite supply of cane tips, rather than the other way around.