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2. The best canes for 2025, according to mobility experts - AOL

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   Canes with an offset handle are designed to be more ergonomic and help to align the user’s center of gravity. Types of cane shafts These are the three types of cane shafts: wood (left), aluminum ...

3. Walking stick - Wikipedia

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   In modern times, walking sticks are usually only seen with formal attire. Retractable canes that reveal such properties as hidden compartments, pool sticks, or blades are popular among collectors. Handles have been made from many substances, both natural and manmade. Carved and decorated canes have turned the functional into the fantastic.

4. Assistive cane - Wikipedia

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   The collar of a cane may be only a decorative addition made for stylistic reasons, or may form the structural interface between shaft and handle. Shaft. The shaft of the cane transmits the load from the handle to the ferrule and may be constructed from carbon fiber polymer, metal, composites, or traditional wood. Ferrule. The tip of a cane ...

5. Makila - Wikipedia

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   The makila walking stick consists of an engraved medlar wood shaft cut to a length to suit its owner, generally either hipbone or sternum-height, 1 to 1.4 metres (3.3 to 4.6 ft). The bottom is often shod with steel or other metal and ends in a ferrule (blunt spike for traction).

6. List of timber framing tools - Wikipedia

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   The men talking may be holding a story pole and rule (or walking cane). Shear legs are hoisting a timber. Below, the sticks on the log are winding sticks used to align the ends of a timber. Tools used in traditional timber framing date back thousands of years. Similar tools are used in many cultures, but the shapes vary and some are pulled ...

7. Gutta-percha - Wikipedia

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   Long before gutta-percha was introduced into the Western world, it was used in a less-processed form by the natives of the Malaysian archipelago for making knife handles, walking sticks, and other purposes. The first European to study this material was John Tradescant, who collected it in the far east in 1656. He named this material "Mazer wood".