The thing sat gathering dust in my closet for years until I was injured. I hated the look of those modern canes, so I took up using this old stick.
I like it because it has a bit more style than one of those sterile looking metal canes. With a bit of practice one can deliver quite a number of very effective blows very rapidly.
That and it just looks kind of cool propped up next to the front door...
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Seems like a not-unreasonable place to get one, to me.
Rural TN and KY have a lot of good woodworkers, and a lot of hardwood forests.