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My wife's Cane...
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My wife's Cane...
I've been planning a cane for my wife for about a week. I found a nice wooden ball for the top, but she said she would rather have an antler... I didn't find one until this weekend (when I found a whole pile of moose antlers, one white tail deer antler) and a corkscrew. We have now dismantled the corkscrew and intend to use the handle for the cane. The corkscrew was sold as "horn with a sterling silver cap" the rest of the corkscrew is steel, but the "horn" appears to actually be walrus tusk. The sterling silver cap is sterling silver and monogrammed. I haven't taken photos yet, but they will be added shortly. The handle will cost more than the rest of the cane but it's well worth it. She will have a truly unique cane.
Z.
Z.
Zwack- Comanding Officer
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Re: My wife's Cane...
And here is the handle of the corkscrew. The corkscrew itself was screwed into the hole in the tusk.
I think this is going to make a nice cane handle for my wife. I need to clean up the silver cap (it's marked "Sterling" and "118")
Z.
I think this is going to make a nice cane handle for my wife. I need to clean up the silver cap (it's marked "Sterling" and "118")
Z.
Zwack- Comanding Officer
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Re: My wife's Cane...
I think that'll make an awesome handle! Awesome like hot dog awesome, not awesome like scope of the universe But that's still really good
Samuel Crowe- Number of posts : 3
Registration date : 2008-09-29
Re: My wife's Cane...
Now that is a nice handle.
Gazongola- Bosun
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Age : 34
Location : Wolverhampton, England
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Getting there...
Shaped, Painted, and with the handle attached.
I've still got to add a silver band between the main part of the cane and the handle. Once that is done the turquoise in a silver mount (currently resting in place) will be mounted in the same spot.
The band will probably be air dry modelling clay with silver leaf on it. (I can't make a proper silver one myself, sorry).
The Turquoise in a sterling mount came from a ring that doesn't fit anyone in the house.
Z.
I've still got to add a silver band between the main part of the cane and the handle. Once that is done the turquoise in a silver mount (currently resting in place) will be mounted in the same spot.
The band will probably be air dry modelling clay with silver leaf on it. (I can't make a proper silver one myself, sorry).
The Turquoise in a sterling mount came from a ring that doesn't fit anyone in the house.
Z.
Zwack- Comanding Officer
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Re: My wife's Cane...
Well well. I was expectin gyou to put the silver end connected to the cane, and the curve of the horn would become the handle, but it is still nice.
Gazongola- Bosun
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Re: My wife's Cane...
The silver end is solid stirling silver, I didn't feel like damaging it. Where the handle is connected is where the corkscrew was connected. It doesn't have enough of a curve for the handle to work well the other way round, but it feels good like this.
Z.
Z.
Zwack- Comanding Officer
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Re: My wife's Cane...
Far out... I mean 'Spiffing!'
Gazongola- Bosun
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Re: My wife's Cane...
Somebody check my usage, but I believe said cane is a "feteler" or "fetler" or "fettler"
You know, the last detail that really makes your brass ring...
You know, the last detail that really makes your brass ring...
Elisha Rush- crewhand
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Location : Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Registration date : 2008-09-30
Re: My wife's Cane...
I fear that my dyslexia is acting up on me again, but at least 'tis manifesting in an interesting form. When first I read this, I thought it said "My wife's Caine", leading me to wonder what she'd done with Able....
Dr. Oliver Cross- officer
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Re: My wife's Cane...
Look what I found online today...
A Cane handle...
It's yours for only $1,100
And it looks remarkably like the handle of my wife's cane... It's a Wild Boars Tusk!
To think I paid $30 for hers...
Z.
A Cane handle...
It's yours for only $1,100
And it looks remarkably like the handle of my wife's cane... It's a Wild Boars Tusk!
To think I paid $30 for hers...
Z.
Zwack- Comanding Officer
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Re: My wife's Cane...
Yes, in the mix of Stuff... should probably be "Schtuph" with bells, whistles, and seraphim singing... that I found clearing my folks' house this year was a boar's tusk with sterling tip and monogrammed cap, a very fancy corkscrew. Having had the good sense to coordinate my Steampunk name with the family initial, I could conceivably convert this one.
Thank you for the inspiration; I don't drink - wine - so a corkscrew was a bit of a useless-but-pretty dust collector. I will take a look and see how it works out.
Chas.
Thank you for the inspiration; I don't drink - wine - so a corkscrew was a bit of a useless-but-pretty dust collector. I will take a look and see how it works out.
Chas.
Captain Lyerly- Comanding Officer
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that's certainly a warthog tusk
I buy them for €4 to €6 a piece, dcepending on the size, quality and degree of polish.
I have four of them sitting in a drawer in the workshop at the moment. I intended to make up at least one of them into a corkscrew!
K.
I have four of them sitting in a drawer in the workshop at the moment. I intended to make up at least one of them into a corkscrew!
K.
Keith_Beef- powder monkey
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Registration date : 2008-10-14
Re: My wife's Cane...
I looked up wild boar tusks and warthog tusks and frankly I wouldn't want to say which it is...
This is an older tusk of some kind of pig like creature...
I can purchase a new warthog and silver corkscrew for $225... I still did good to get one for $30. and my wife loves her cane.
Z.
This is an older tusk of some kind of pig like creature...
I can purchase a new warthog and silver corkscrew for $225... I still did good to get one for $30. and my wife loves her cane.
Z.
Zwack- Comanding Officer
- Number of posts : 223
Location : And introducing my wife, the wonderful Mrs Z.
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