Rebuilding Sassy Videos Complete
I made a 53 minute highly detailed video and a 12 minute quicker look. Here’s the longer version.
SO MUCH Going On: New Sticks, Old Sticks, a Character Cues Tournament, Leather Grips, Leather and Bark Rings, 6 Sassafras and Ironwood Live Edge Sticks in the Works, Omigosh!
How’s that for a thorough title? It could be the whole post. Except I’ll add a few details… The tournament will be at the Bear Claw, on 322 outside of Reynoldsville, PA. Their back room (which seems to be about a half acre) will have a plank floor completed in a couple weeks. I spoke […]
2 Full Length, Spalted, Cored, Birch Butts in Stabilizer
I ordinarily use Cactus Juice stabilizer, but I had some Polycryl that I’d intended to test, and never had. It occurred to me while editing my upcoming Sassafras rebuild video that with my current setup, I’m able to core full length sticks. The daring part was coring them while they’re rotten and liable to fly […]
Rotten Maple on a Journey… (plus a wicked cool slideshow)
I also cut a some very crazily-figured black cherry, some ordinary old walnut, and paper birch, which will all complement the new sticks in various ways. Some of the sticks will be one-piece, so the only complement will be like: “Holy shit! You’re beautiful!”
The Ferrule Follies
I’m working on a full length documentary for the rebuild of Sassy Frassy, my first stick, which I made out of sassafras. This video is a section of that larger video. I didn’t want to ditch the material showing the ferrule, collar and core build, but it would have taken a half hour to let […]
Intent Moves Matter… first shine
Somehow, I made a joint collar out of Delrin.
I always call it Delron because it reminds me of my semi-unintelligent third cousin from Alabammy.
Nothin’ sticks to it, is the point.
Will Sassy Frassy Survive Her Rebuild?
This is the stick that started me on the path to cue building. One thing I’ve learned and probably most cue builders would agree, it’s a path, not a destination. We’re always growing. Moving forward through new terrain. Developing and discarding processes. I knew when I built Ole Sassy Frassy that it would warp. The […]
Angels in a Pool Cue?
This video shows Stick 24, Miss Sarah Phim, a stick made of spalted, (rotten) beech. The grain patterns are from the natural figuring in the wood as well as lines left by various strains of fungus, as they consumed the nutrients within. “Stabilization” uses resin to replace what decay removed from the wood, leaving it […]
