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4.5
NOISY CANE? It can be FIXED in 5 seconds if you tighten a ring! :-)I can't believe I never noticed it before now, but there's a ring halfway down the cane that makes the cane quiet if you tighten it! It's midway down the shaft of the cane, where the two pieces come together.It's really obvious once you spot it, but it's really easy to miss it on some of the busy patterns. I always thought it was just bad/good luck whether my cane was quiet or loud, but it turns out they almost all have this ring -- you just first adjust the height where you want it, then tighten the ring, and ta-dah! Quiet cane! Who knew? ;-)I attached a picture to this review to show the ring. If you need to adjust the length again later, you just unscrew the ring first to make it easier to slide the tubes apart to adjust. (It makes it easier on your back & other joints to always have the proper length cane, so it's best to readjust the height if you wear a higher heel one day, or walk barefoot another day, for example.)The "Proud Peacock" design is beautiful -- it has a lot more to it than the 1st Amazon picture shows. There's a whole peacock with beautiful feathers lower down on the shaft of the cane. You have to click on the SECOND picture of that design to notice the peacock -- at first I thought, "why is it called peacock if it's just blue & white swirls...?" I'm so glad I noticed that second picture, though, because it's gorgeous! Really original looking...the colors get darker and more dramatic as the cane continues downward. I attached pictures so you can see it better, if you want.The cane itself I really love -- my previous patterned cane was from CVS, and this is exactly like those. Very sturdy, last for years (I only bought a new one because I got bored and wanted a new design!) The handle is comfortable and doesn't make my wrist hurt at all. The hand grip lasts a weirdly long time -- I have a cane I've used for several years, and that hand grip isn't damaged at all. This is made the same way, very good quality black foam or whatever it is. Nice that some things are still made well!The only thing I do is change the tip every so often when it wears down. I look on Amazon for a smooth tip, one without the ridge at the bottom -- that way, when I use the cane to hold a self-closing door open, the cane tip doesn't get stuck between the bottom of the door and the floor. (To replace the tip, you have to really work to get the original one off -- you might even need to kind of destroy the old tip or slice it with a box cutter, they're usually really stuck on there. But you're not missing anything, they just really are HARD to get off!)
