An exhibition quality cane with handsome woods grains, lovely chatoyance, and a story to tell! The handle is curl figured redwood from California, its ancient material that has been sustainably salvage harvested from old growth redwood stumps. Most ancient materials I use in my work has been buried for thousands of years, but very few of my "ancient canes" are made from materials that lived for thousands of years! This redwood is a combination of both. It's been dead for at least 100 years, but it was an old growth redwood tree that could have been alive at the time of Christ. Regardless of its age, its grain is magnificent and the bands of light move across the wood like the stone "tiger eye", its very chatoyant and beautiful. The divider is brass and Tasmanian blackwood with tight curl figure, its also chatoyant.

The shaft is also something very special its ancient Kauri wood from Northern New Zealand. Its a piece of wood from an ancient kauri tree that was buried in the ground for 40,000 years! That's right, this wood dates back to the earliest cave paintings at approximately 40,000 BC. The Bering land bridge between Alaska and Russia broke apart approximately 20,000 years ago and the Woolly mammoth went extinct 8,000 years ago. It's hard to fathom 40,000 years! Wood like this is called "sinker" wood. A tree lives a typical life span but when it dies and falls it is covered in peat moss or falls into a bog, both of which create an oxygen deprived environment that perfectly preserves the wood. Ancient Kauri is the oldest "workable" wood in the world, the only wood that is older is petrified wood which is no longer wood but stone. Kauri is also chatoyant, a theme for this cane.

Total length measures 38" and can be shortened to fit. Overall a lighter weight cane that is nimble and easily carried.

M A T E R I A L S

Handle – Old growth redwood from California
Divider – Brass and Tasmanian Blackwood
Shaft – Ancient Kauri wood from New Zealand
Rubber Tip