The Character Cues Black Burchowdy torrefied shaft, for sale now, is for delivery in summer of 2026. In a nutshell: Only 30 Black Burchowdy shafts are available for pre-sale. Full transparency: I’m using their sale to fund the process below. I intend to have a blast with it, make some Youtube videos so everyone can keep […]
2000 years ago a man worked miracles in front of thousands, healed the sick, raised the dead, said things only the divine could conceive to say, fulfilled so many prophesies the math calls it impossible, was murdered, entombed, and then seen alive in the flesh. The people who saw him spread his message of redemption […]
I wrote last fall that I’m declining custom orders. The reason was simple: they take a lot more time than builds where I consult no one but my muse. But frankly, the sort of person who buys a custom Character Cue is the sort of person I like to know. I don’t, on principle, like […]
While processing burl this last week I realized I had no space for it, so I did the ugly deed. I judged. I went through all of my stabilized wood and all my dry spalted wood, yet to be stabilized, and created a massive burn pile. All the wood that wasn’t either perfectly plain or […]
My guiding principle in pricing is that my Creator commands me to love you, and that means I have to care for you like I care fore me. That’s why I give everyone great latitude in all areas of their lives. I require it myself! 😉 Anyhow, when I wrote up my price page for […]
I’m taking a break from custom builds for a while. I’ve never charged a premium for the custom part of a cue build because doing so would at least triple the cost of a cue. I could absorb that into my business when orders were rare. Now they come faster than I can complete them, […]
Ron’s Cue… Going for a sunrise effect with orange and copper side by side, surrounded by yellow. Last image shows the rings fairly close…
Okay, truth is I only added the gold phenolic (which I bought thinking it was brown, since they named it brown, but like better gold) because ya never know… I like the gold collars with the white rings and the black rings/copper rings best of all the mockups. Top middle. It really grabs the eye, […]
For this custom build, I made 3 sets of rings to bookend the maple burl handle section, each going with a different color of end collar, white, black, and brown. The rings are within a few hundredths of their final size and the seagull pockets are filled with epoxy. Each ring has the same pattern […]
Oh my gosh Clayton! I got my stick today and it is just beautiful and shoots great!
My words cannot express the beauty and workmanship you have created!
Thank you, thank you, thank you so very much!!!!
Also, I loved the letter sent with the stick♥️
— Aggie McFarlane
Stick 126: Too Sexy
