Category: Hanging Cue Sticks

Butt & Joint Protector: $775

I made my second limited edition batch in response to a request that I do more out of non-dyed stabilized wood. All of the Beatitudes butts began as a single piece of spalted wood long enough to be both a forearm and butt sleeve. Some were long enough to also offer an extension as an add on, if wanted. The Beatitudes Limited Edition have product numbers from LE149 to LE156. The grain in each contiguous piece is aligned even when the pieces are not contiguous, as when there is a ring set or handle in between. All of the designs were dictated by the wood itself, as my cuts were placed where I could get the straightest sections to work with.

Woods used in the batch: Oak, maple, apple, walnut, yellow birch, black birch burl, black cherry red rot, and of course, all on shagbark hickory cores. I harvest rotting wood from around where I live in western PA, dry it to zero percent humidity, and stabilize with Cactus Juice resin. The resulting material is significantly more dense than the original wood was — that’s why I can use a soft wood like walnut or cherry and have it produce a hit like hard maple or some other dense wood.

BLESSED ARE THE RECONCILERS is a dumb luck fluke. I had wood stabilized for a batch of 7, but when I started layouts I realized the black cherry red rot wasn’t dark enough to use for bold contrasts. Some sticks need bold contrasts. I went to the heater where I keep punky wood ready to stabilize, grabbed enough walnut for one small cook, which basically fits in 2 toaster ovens, and stabilized a batch of walnut. All the other butts in the group were pieces set aside because they were a long single piece and had so much activity in the grain and spalting, I knew they’d deliver. But when I cleaned up the walnut after the cook I realized that two of the pieces were contiguous. The walnut I have is such a gnarled, beautiful mess I have to cut out parts of a pool cue section by section. These two pieces must have slipped my mind to set aside. They are separated by black birch burl. Brass rings.

–Clayton

PS… Want to add the best wood shaft on the planet to your order? I’m on a quest to build the best low deflection wood shaft on planet earth. Check out my reasoning and progress here… and maybe grab one of the first 30 along with a prototype shaft for testing and feedback: https://charactercues.com/product/black-burchowdy/

Monthly payments. No interest. No automatic bank draft.

Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized Figured Walnut, Black Birch Burl

Butt Length: 30″

Core: Shagbark Hickory (firm hit)

Collars: Phenolic

Probable full cue natural weight: 18-19 oz.

Pin: 3/8-10 mod; radial, or QR

Glue Date: 6/17/25

Earliest Finish Date: 1/26

CAFETERIA STYLE: email me at Clayton@charactercues.com if you’d like to purchase this butt with any of the following. I’ll protect the page for you and change the listing and price to include the items you’d like to purchase. To discuss on the phone, email first. 🙂

Butt $700

Carbon Fiber Shaft $450 

Purple Heart Shaft: $400

Wood shaft: (any species, w/ matching ring) $350

• Maple
• Birch
• Ash
• Sassafras
• Walnut
• White Oak
• Hickory
• Honey Locust
• Beech
• Cherry

Matching wood joint protectors: $75 each

Extensions:

• 3-6″ Simple: $250
• 7-12″ Simple: $300
• 3-6″ Like-Design: $450
• 7-12″ Like-Design: $500

Butt & Joint Protector: $775

I made my second limited edition batch in response to a request that I do more out of non-dyed stabilized wood. All of the Beatitudes butts began as a single piece of spalted wood long enough to be both a forearm and butt sleeve. Some were long enough to also offer an extension as an add on, if wanted. The Beatitudes Limited Edition have product numbers from LE149 to LE156. The grain in each contiguous piece is aligned even when the pieces are not contiguous, as when there is a ring set or handle in between. All of the designs were dictated by the wood itself, as my cuts were placed where I could get the straightest sections to work with.

Woods used in the batch: Oak, maple, apple, walnut, yellow birch, black birch burl, black cherry red rot, and of course, all on shagbark hickory cores. I harvest rotting wood from around where I live in western PA, dry it to zero percent humidity, and stabilize with Cactus Juice resin. The resulting material is significantly more dense than the original wood was — that’s why I can use a soft wood like walnut or cherry and have it produce a hit like hard maple or some other dense wood.

BLESSED ARE THE HUMBLE is glorious spalted Hormtown Oak. The patterns are simply a delight. Nothing else is like spalted oak. Look close at the forearm and butt sleeve.

Also look close at the walnut handle. The grain is chock full of swirling black and tan contrasts. Spalted and stabilized so its much denser than regular old walnut, which is three steps removed from balsa. This stuff is more akin a rock.

Blessed are the Humble is the most understated butt of the collection at first glance, and easily the prettiest per square inch when you look close.

That’s significant.

–Clayton

PS… Want to add the best wood shaft on the planet to your order? I’m on a quest to build the best low deflection wood shaft on planet earth. Check out my reasoning and progress here… and maybe grab one of the first 30 along with a prototype shaft for testing and feedback: https://charactercues.com/product/black-burchowdy/

Monthly payments. No interest. No automatic bank draft.

Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized Oak, Figured Walnut, Black Cherry red rot rings set between Copper rings.

Butt Length: 30″

Core: Shagbark Hickory (firm hit)

Collars: Phenolic

Probable full cue natural weight: 18-19 oz.

Pin: 3/8-10 mod; radial, or QR

Glue Date: 6/17/25

Earliest Finish Date: 1/26

CAFETERIA STYLE: email me at Clayton@charactercues.com if you’d like to purchase this butt with any of the following. I’ll protect the page for you and change the listing and price to include the items you’d like to purchase. To discuss on the phone, email first. 🙂

Butt $700

Carbon Fiber Shaft $450 

Purple Heart Shaft: $400

Wood shaft: (any species, w/ matching ring) $350

• Maple
• Birch
• Ash
• Sassafras
• Walnut
• White Oak
• Hickory
• Honey Locust
• Beech
• Cherry

Matching wood joint protectors: $75 each

Extensions:

• 3-6″ Simple: $250
• 7-12″ Simple: $300
• 3-6″ Like-Design: $450
• 7-12″ Like-Design: $500

Butt & Joint Protector: $775

I made my second limited edition batch in response to a request that I do more out of non-dyed stabilized wood. All of the Beatitudes butts began as a single piece of spalted wood long enough to be both a forearm and butt sleeve. Some were long enough to also offer an extension as an add on, if wanted. The Beatitudes Limited Edition have product numbers from LE149 to LE156. The grain in each contiguous piece is aligned even when the pieces are not contiguous, as when there is a ring set or handle in between. All of the designs were dictated by the wood itself, as my cuts were placed where I could get the straightest sections to work with.

Woods used in the batch: Oak, maple, apple, walnut, yellow birch, black birch burl, black cherry red rot, and of course, all on shagbark hickory cores. I harvest rotting wood from around where I live in western PA, dry it to zero percent humidity, and stabilize with Cactus Juice resin. The resulting material is significantly more dense than the original wood was — that’s why I can use a soft wood like walnut or cherry and have it produce a hit like hard maple or some other dense wood.

BLESSED IS THE STEADFAST has a forearm, handle, and butt sleeve of slightly curly, burnt in Alpaca Luke’s fire pit, piece of apple wood. The apple tree, incidentally, lost its life to alpacas rubbing their sides against it and debarking it over the years, as it provided them much shade and killing it made sense to their leaders.

The wood is stabilized now, better than new. However, the piece was so bent and shrunk after stabilizing, I had to introduce other wood to the mix. Black birch burl to the rescue.

You can throw black birch burl in a tux or in jeans and a wife beater, and it’s black birch burl. Its presence creates the respect it demands.

That’s always true of the real deal.

Grab this one. Don’t wait.

–Clayton

PS… Want to add the best wood shaft on the planet to your order? I’m on a quest to build the best low deflection wood shaft on planet earth. Check out my reasoning and progress here… and maybe grab one of the first 30 along with a prototype shaft for testing and feedback: https://charactercues.com/product/black-burchowdy/

Monthly payments. No interest. No automatic bank draft.

Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized Apple, Black Birch Burl

Butt Length: 30″

Core: Shagbark Hickory (firm hit)

Collars: Phenolic

Probable full cue natural weight: 18-19 oz.

Pin: 3/8-10 mod; radial, or QR

Glue Date: 6/17/25

Earliest Finish Date: 1/26

CAFETERIA STYLE: email me at Clayton@charactercues.com if you’d like to purchase this butt with any of the following. I’ll protect the page for you and change the listing and price to include the items you’d like to purchase. To discuss on the phone, email first. 🙂

Butt $700

Carbon Fiber Shaft $450 

Purple Heart Shaft: $400

Wood shaft: (any species, w/ matching ring) $350

• Maple
• Birch
• Ash
• Sassafras
• Walnut
• White Oak
• Hickory
• Honey Locust
• Beech
• Cherry

Matching wood joint protectors: $75 each

Extensions:

• 3-6″ Simple: $250
• 7-12″ Simple: $300
• 3-6″ Like-Design: $450
• 7-12″ Like-Design: $500