I know I have been gone awhile...

[_Richard_]

Originally Posted by CD Smith

Which one? This one? http://www.fashionablecanes.com/117.html

This cane is an exact replica from the popular 1970's soap opera "Dark Shadows".


$589, I like it too.

ga sorry, the hardcarved one.. which seems cheap:

http://www.fashionablecanes.com/3377.html

dammit now i want one

[CD Smith]

$150 for hand-carved art like that does sound cheap. I wonder why it's so cheap?

Wait... "Please Note: This Cane is designed for users that weigh up to 200lbs. and up to 6'2"in Height."

"The finest oak in the Ukraine" must not be all that sturdy. Lets me out, I'm a good 30 lbs and 2 inches over that limit.

I won't complain. Like I said the one I have now is a really badass dark green metallic snakeskin finish, fully adjustable aluminum, even guys three or four hundred lbs and a few inches taller than I can use it. And it was only $30.

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by CD Smith

$150 for hand-carved art like that does sound cheap. I wonder why it's so cheap?

Not cheap for hand carved art if you know where to shop. I collect hand carved netsuke, and I rarely pay over $20 for a good new one (ironically often a lot more for second hand ones - but they are antiques) and over 50% of the new ones I have, I got for under $10. The trick is to buy from China, the Chinese work for a lot less per hour than we do, and will often carve wood/bone/etc in the evenings for extra pin money, then sell for peanuts!

Weirdly the most expensive netsuke style item I ever tried to buy was at auction, and went way over what I could afford to pay. That one was not hand carved, it was mass produced plastic and given away in a box of Crackerjack!

[CD Smith]

I'm just thinking that if I were to sit down and start carving a piece of hardwood into a new wild-looking cane, and then after umpteen hours of working on it and sanding it and staining it and varnishing it I decide to sell it, I think I'd be wanting more than a hundred and fifty bucks.

There's mass-produced churned-out so-called 'art', and then there's unique hand-carved art.

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by CD Smith

I'm just thinking that if I were to sit down and start carving a piece of hardwood into a new wild-looking cane, and then after umpteen hours of working on it and sanding it and staining it and varnishing it I decide to sell it, I think I'd be wanting more than a hundred and fifty bucks.

Well me too, but with my talent I doubt if anything I carved would be worth even a hundred and fifty cents!

[CD Smith]

Originally Posted by ecchi

Well me too, but with my talent I doubt if anything I carved would be worth even a hundred and fifty cents!

Point taken.