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Which dancing cane should i use? my character is comical yet elegant. I'm thinking of getting the presision magic cane.

The Precision Cane is actually rather poorly balanced and when I bought my cane from Mike Danata, he'd had some returns from customers who weren't satisfied.

Mikame make a lovely cane but it's pricey. You do get fantastic quality though.

I bought a Fantasio vanishing cane and use this. It's perfectly weighted, the silver finish looks far heavier than it actually is which adds to the effect in my opinion and of course it's much cheaper.

I recommend that you call and speak to Mike Danata as he's an expert on canes and usually has a few different ones in stock.

Hope this helps you Chris.

Hi, I first bought a plastic, one piece from Fukai at Blackpool 5 or 6 years ago. It was great, lasted ages & was perfectly balanced. I lost it in a hire car & decided to get a Mikame Wooden two piece one. It is off balance & the thread cut into the soft wood & snapped. It did look nice but was unusable.

I now have a replacement one from Fukai at last year's Blackpool & bought extra threads at the same time. He does silver ones & I think black, both one piece & both plastic. If you go for a metal one the thread will be have to be thicker & as a two piece packs nicely away, a one piece will be better balanced.

There are (although I have never tried them) dancing pool cues & golf clubs available at some places which might play on the comedy side but maybe not as elegant.

Actually, why not make a bid for my wooden Mikame one I paid £90 for it.

thanks guys and i also want to put out that losander has a cane out that is not as detailed as the mikame but looks great. I'm not going mikame's cane but there is one other one that jeff mcbride uses on his stage magic dvd (not vortex) it's cheaper and packs small. any other opinions?

by the way dat8962, I'm speaking to david mann and "Big Daddy Cool" about the cane. there has been in the past a couple of cane that were off balance (i've worked in a magic shop then) so you might have gottin a defective cane. not to be mean or anything.

Hi Chris - I didn't actually buy the David Mann cane as I was put off by the comments that I'd heard and went for a Fantasio instead and it's been very good.

However, that was two to three years ago now so there's every chance that they've improved. There is always some defects when things are being produced in quantity.

I suppose that like most things in life - you pay your money and you take your chance

Why use a dancing cane, at all?
You say your character is comical but elegant. So why not use a cue stick from a country house billiard room? ("Well, they had all the silver under lock and key and. . . ")

The late Sid Lorraine told me once that the dancing cane is simply not logical, even in the illogical world of magic.

A pool cue make sense; a broom makes sense (Harry Potter; see Tina Lenert's routine as a charwoman); etc.