For Sale: Random aged tube cane

Monday September 10 2007

So I have a bunch of this tube cane for sale that’s pretty random. I’ve tried a bit, and can comment on some of the batches.

• One large batch of 1lb 10 oz of aged tube cane. Medium hardness. Decent cane. $50 per pound or $75 for the whole batch.*
• 7.2 oz of medium hard cane, perhaps alliaud? Aged, Medium hard hardness. Also decent cane. $25 for the batch*
• 4 oz of mixed cane. I know half of it is Danzi, but I don’t know the other half. Aged, medium to medium soft hardness. $12*
• 7.6 oz of Random cane, probably 2 types in there. Haven’t tried it. $20
• 3.5 ozs of unmarked cane, probably 1 type. Haven’t tried it. $7.
• 10.7 oz of cane marked “Sert” from 5/96. $30.*
• 14.6 oz of unmarked cane. Looks very good. Golden brown, perhaps Bonazza. $50.

If you want to purchase any of this, send me a holler. Prices don’t include shipping. If you care to buy all of it ($219 by my calculation) I’ll throw in free shipping.

I probably could gouging and scrape this cane and sell it for my reeds, but the time it takes to learn how to scrape a new kind of cane is too valuable for someone in the reed business. Making reeds is all about consistency; consistent cane; consistent gouge; consistent shape; consistent scrape. Once you get out of the consistency mode and into the experimental mode, your hourly rate goes plummeting.

Update: 1lb of batch is #1 sold (10 oz remaining×$31.25). Cane batches #2, #3 and #6 are sold.