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I recently posted I was having trouble getting cane shafts so I looked online for cane suppliers & came across The Cane Store who supply rattan cane etc. for furniture. Sent an e-mail & ended up buying 3 metres of 8mm Centre cane - postage cost as much as the cane - total: £9.90. Seems a lot but I can get over 20 sets out of that which is less than 50p a set & I am enjoying kitting out a few sets of my old brass darts. Just thought I would post this in case anyone else was having the same trouble. The Cane Store were really helpful & kept the postage costs down as best they could by sending approx. foot lengths.
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Be great to see some pics.
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Indeed, pics would be interesting. Bearing my ignorance, but are they whittled by hand or turned on a lathe? Old equipment is interesting and unique. One gentleman that plays in my league still uses real feather flights. We have discussed them at length. Again, very interesting to see how things were done via different routes.
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That's very interesting to know and see how it's done. I'll mention it to the gent in my league when it resumes in fall. Thanks!!!!
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Back in the day we would make our stems from hickory cut from a shunters pole, after whitling to the required shape we would varnish them prior to use.
