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I got it in a while back and promised to report on it once I had a chance to use it a while. Now's the time.
Mendowood makes several styles. Freestyles and shillelaghs are heaviest, then the Mendocino, with Sonoma and Manhattan the lightest.
My freestyle arrived at 40 ozs, or 2&1/2 lbs. Another I originally intended to order was 3 pounds.
To my mind the Mendowood canes are a low profile defensive device. The heads are all wood of various kind and shapes. Holding the head and shaft together is an aluminum rod close to half or 3/4 inch going deeply into the head and likewise into the shaft, then glued and pinned. The shafts are likewise made all the same way. A hardwood inner core glued into galvanized steel tubing either 1/2 or 3/4 inch diameter, and then covered with epoxy coating applied to make it look as if the shaft were gloss black coated wood. It achieves that effect very well.
Mine is too heavy to use as a fighting cane would normally be used. It is overly heavy for single handed quick moves. Used as a hand-and-a-half weapon, however, I believe it should be capable of breaking and/or crushing nearly any bone, even from the back of the upper leg. It is, in fact, a club rather than a cane. Held about a third of the way down and with two-thirds in front to balance it, or two handed from any position it works well.
I believe if you are strong and purchase a lighter cane, though, such as the Manhattan model, it would perform quite well as a defensive cane singlehanded. I'm considering buying a lighter one to do just that in a few months.
To sum up, get a lighter, pretty one and it won't raise any eyebrows. It doesn't look like a fighting cane. It doesn't look like a lead pipe either, but that's what the heavier ones amount to. Yeah, I like it, but mine turned out a 20" AK rather than a GS or 20" Sirupati. End of report.
I got it in a while back and promised to report on it once I had a chance to use it a while. Now's the time.
Mendowood makes several styles. Freestyles and shillelaghs are heaviest, then the Mendocino, with Sonoma and Manhattan the lightest.
My freestyle arrived at 40 ozs, or 2&1/2 lbs. Another I originally intended to order was 3 pounds.
To my mind the Mendowood canes are a low profile defensive device. The heads are all wood of various kind and shapes. Holding the head and shaft together is an aluminum rod close to half or 3/4 inch going deeply into the head and likewise into the shaft, then glued and pinned. The shafts are likewise made all the same way. A hardwood inner core glued into galvanized steel tubing either 1/2 or 3/4 inch diameter, and then covered with epoxy coating applied to make it look as if the shaft were gloss black coated wood. It achieves that effect very well.
Mine is too heavy to use as a fighting cane would normally be used. It is overly heavy for single handed quick moves. Used as a hand-and-a-half weapon, however, I believe it should be capable of breaking and/or crushing nearly any bone, even from the back of the upper leg. It is, in fact, a club rather than a cane. Held about a third of the way down and with two-thirds in front to balance it, or two handed from any position it works well.
I believe if you are strong and purchase a lighter cane, though, such as the Manhattan model, it would perform quite well as a defensive cane singlehanded. I'm considering buying a lighter one to do just that in a few months.
To sum up, get a lighter, pretty one and it won't raise any eyebrows. It doesn't look like a fighting cane. It doesn't look like a lead pipe either, but that's what the heavier ones amount to. Yeah, I like it, but mine turned out a 20" AK rather than a GS or 20" Sirupati. End of report.
FC.