I put longtime woodworking skills to use and began handcrafting canes for my own use. An early cane featured a loop handle, inspired by an African walking stick. This signature design has become one of my most popular and functional canes. I handcraft over one hundred originally designed canes, walking and hiking sticks and crutches, using fine kiln dried hardwoods. The designs vary from single pi
ece solid wood canes with various spiraled notched shafts, to simple contrasting wood inlays, multicolored laminations, hand carved designs with crushed stone inlays, shell and stone inserts and free form designs composed of recycled pieces. Each piece is hand cut using a variety of saws and shapers, and goes through between seven to nine separate sanding processes before being finished with the equivalent of two coats of Danish Oil to seal the wood allowing it to “breathe”, while still maintaining its resilience. In 1990 LEAN ON ME became a full time business producing unique hand crafted canes, crutches, walking and hiking sticks and more.
