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 […]
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 […]
I sledgehammer a block of treated wood, perform last rites for a mouse, burn my oven, and make pool sticks so pretty you’ll watch like the screen is dripping eyeball crack.
It took four months to get my cue building machines. Then four more months to arrive at this place, after acquiring my main cue building machinery… I saw all this 8 months ago…. I’m finally organized. I have a spreadsheet. A word doc with instructions for my way of stick building, so I do each […]
A random discussion of the author Ernest Hemingway, while gluing the stick Hemingway. I mention the author I read for fun, plus a spattering of bonus ridicule around the topic of Hunter’s Laptop. Hunter’s Laptop is the pink stick in the background. Oh, and yes, I have at least six gray tank tops. I’m not […]
I redid the finish on BOB 8 times. The trouble came as a result of cutting the neck 5 hundredths too skinny. That meant having to build up width using finish, which is a laborious and at times frustrating process. 7 times frustrating, to be honest. I loved the curly maple ripples, the black cherry […]
I had a vision of a different way to do my epic stick-build video (that I’m planning). My plan was to learn how to build (with high-quality craftsmanship) artistically unique spalted/stabilized wood pool cues, then once I had the process and the shop capable of doing the work at the level I wanted, create a […]
Pale Horse is Stick 23. The first video is a look at the stick on the Taper Shaper after 4 passes. The second video looks at what I can only describe as spooky shit. I called the stick Pale Horse without knowing what patterns the wood would reveal, and the patterns will change before it’s […]
I’ve been feeling more and more the gentle tug at my heart. Sometimes it feels more like a chain that’s been grapple-hooked through my left ventricle, this insisting awareness that it matters more and more how we conduct our affairs, these days.
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
My new weapon arrived safe and sound! It looks so much better in person!
It’s truly a work of art!
Man, this masterpiece hits AWESOME! I freaking love it!!!
