All of the Custom Features Available to Design Your Own Cane
Premium American Wood
At Cane Masters, we use two premium hardwoods: American Oak and American Hickory. Oak is great for training, but we prefer Hickory for its unmatched durability. The rarest and best wood is Pure Hickory Heart, known for its dark color and beautiful patina—a cane you'll be proud of for a lifetime.
Quality Stains and Finishes
Every Cane Masters Cane, made from American Oak or Hickory, is hand-sanded and soaked for 48 hours in a special strengthening solution. The cane is then hand-rubbed with our durable finish, which can take up to a week depending on the color, like our popular Gunstock Brown. This process ensures a smooth finish that will last a lifetime.
Functional Horn Styles
Every Cane Masters cane features our classic Inside Cut Horn, but when you design your own, you can choose from several horn styles to fit your look and purpose. The Elite Horn offers a sharper profile, ideal for martial arts, personal protection, and a more custom feel.
Unique Eyes or Crystals
A key to using your cane correctly is to always have the horn facing forward. To help you remember, we offer Custom Eyes or Crystals on the horn. As a wise instructor said, the "eyes look out for trouble." This feature reminds you to always keep the cane with the eyes ahead for proper use and personal protection.
Multi-Purpose Grips
Grips are an essential, though often overlooked, feature of your cane. They provide control in humid or sweaty conditions and allow you to hold your cane anywhere for self-defense or training, all while adding a refined, purposeful look to your design.
Sharks Teeth Strength
The Sharks Teeth feature is a must-have. This striking notched edge not only enhances your cane’s visual appeal but also provides a highly functional design for personal protection. It’s bold, practical, and sets your cane apart from the rest.
Rumble Strips for Protection
Rumble Strips give your cane both character and function. The textured notches add visual depth while serving as a defensive tool, useful for “abrading” an aggressor and encouraging them to back away in a self-defense situation.
Powerful Striking Edge
The Striking Edge concentrates all your power into a narrow right-angle edge, making it highly effective for personal protection. Beyond its purpose, the angular detail adds a strong, commanding look to your cane’s design.
Palm Rest For Extra Stability
The Palm Rest is a unique feature developed by Cane Masters, essential for anyone who carries their cane 100% of the time. When holding the cane properly (horn forward), your hand rests naturally on it, offering superior comfort and alignment. This separate, hand-cut block of wood is also shaped to a slight edge, making it an additional useful tool for personal protection.
Paracord Wrap For Extra Grip
A Paracord Wrap provides a secure grip in any environment, from rain and snow to humid jungles. It also offers a handy wrist strap to maintain control while keeping your hand free. While standard on our Stealth Traveler, you can add this feature to any custom cane for a secure grip and an invaluable asset when traveling or in challenging weather.
Custom Personal Engraving
Personalize your custom cane with our precise Engraving service. You can engrave anything you'd like, from an American flag, your name, or branch of service, to the names of your children or grandchildren. We take great pride in our engraving, which is done precisely and to order, ensuring you create a cane you will enjoy for a lifetime.
Understand The Different Options To Design Your Own Cane
Designing your cane is about more than aesthetics—it’s about fit, balance, and comfort. Explore each customizable option and watch Cane Masters founder Keith Melton explain what every choice does, why it matters, and who it’s best for—so you can design your cane with confidence.
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Cane Length Guide
| Your Height | Cane Length |
|---|---|
| 4' 10" | 29.5" |
| 4' 11" | 30" |
| 5' | 30.5" |
| 5' 1" | 31" |
| 5' 2" | 31.5" |
| 5' 3" | 32" |
| 5' 4" | 32.5" |
| 5' 5" | 33" |
| 5' 6" | 33.5" |
| 5' 7" | 34" |
| 5' 8" | 34.5" |
| 5' 9" | 35" |
| 5' 10" | 35.5" |
| 5' 11" | 36" |
| 6' | 36.5" |
| 6' 1" | 37" |
| 6' 2" | 37.5" |
| 6' 3" | 38" |
| 6' 4" | 38.5" |
| 6' 5" | 39" |
| 6' 6" | 39.5" |
| 6' 7" | 40" |
Sizing your cane
How to Properly Measure and Size Your Cane
By H Keith Melton, President of Cane Masters LLC
Anatomical dimensions may vary, even among individuals of the same height. To receive the most benefit from your cane, it is essential that it be properly sized for your body. If your cane is too long, or too short, it may not provide the necessary support and stability of a cane that is properly sized.
Both methods of sizing your cane (below) assume that you are wearing your standard footwear. Depending on their design, your boots or shoes will add an inch or more to your overall cane length.
For an accurate measurement of your cane’s optimum length, do the following:
- Stand with your back flat to a wall while wearing your everyday walking shoes,
- Stand upright, relax your shoulders, and allow your arms to hang with a natural bend (about 15 degrees) at the elbow,
- Have a second person measure the distance from your wrist joint (between your wrist and forearm) to the floor with a tape measure or yardstick. Note: if you perform this measurement on yourself, it will be inaccurate! The process of reaching across your body to measure yourself destroys the validity of the measurement,
- Round up the measurement to the nearest ½ inch.
If you don't have a second person to aid you in determining the proper measurement for your cane, there is another method:
- Measure your height when wearing your standard walking shoes. Convert your height into inches.For example, if you are 5’ 10” in your shoes, your height is 70 inches.
- Divide by two and then add ½ inch to determine your approximate cane size.In our example, if you are 70 inches tall (5’ 10”), your approximate cane size would be 35” plus ½”= 35.5 inches. If you were 64” tall (5’ 4”), your estimated cane length would be 32” plus ½” = 32.5”.
- This method is usually accurate within one inch of your proper length.
When your cane is properly sized, and you are standing in your walking shoes, the top of your cane should align with your wrist joint.
It you are uncertain of your measurement, always err by making your cane longer. It's a lot easier to cut a cane that is too long, than it is to stretch a cane that is too short! Note: Canes with copper tips (ferrules) cannot be shortened. Be certain of your length before adding a copper tip to your cane order.
Please remember: The information provided above is advisory and not intended to replace the recommendation of your medical professional. Our canes are useful for mobility and balance and are not intended to be used as a replacement for a crutch.
Please call us at Cane Masters LLC, +1 561-556-7314, if you have further questions about the proper sizing of your cane.
Below is a short video on how to measure for your cane: