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Stick 185: Wormwood
Quick View$1,750.00
Butt & Joint Protector: $1075
BurcHowdy Burl & Joint Protector: $675
Spalted/Stabilized Ironwood (American Hornbeam) is dense to begin with. Stabilized, it’s quite hard.
Wormwood is constructed with a Beech full-length core; stabilized American Hornbeam is quite hard. Expect a medium-firm hit.
The Name? The Ironwood has wormholes and there are seven rings. Wormwood in Revelation is in the Third Trumpet (of 7); the Trumpets are part of the 7th Seal. Wormwood blazes through the sky and poisons a third of the water on the planet. Praying I’ll be at the wedding instead.
Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized Ironwood (American Hornbeam), Black Birch Burl (handle), Copper rings.
Butt Length: 30″ without bumper
Core: Beech
Collars: Phenolic
Probable full cue natural weight: 18-20 oz.
Pin: 3/8-10 mod;
Glue Date: 4/18/26
Email me at Cl*****@***********es.com with questions.
Add an Extension:
- 3-6″ Like-Design: $450
- 7-12″ Like-Design: $500
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Stick 180: REDANTED
Quick View$1,950.00Butt & Joint Protector: $1275
BurcHowdy Shaft: $675
Total: $1,950
Special finish: ant holes, rhinestones, mica
I was out at my buddy Alpaca Luke’s a couple years ago helping throw bales in the barn. Masculine stuff. We built a fire and drank a couplefew beverages and across the fire, rotting, was a part burned log of considerable rot.
Of course when I spot a treasure I try to impress upon its owner its many charms. Those ant holes get filled with resin — the whole log! well, pieces anyway! and then mica and CA…. that’s super glue, yes! and anyway you fill the holes and, yes, I’ll have one more and then it’s the road. You mind if I grab that log?
So I cut the log into sections and dry some of them, and then there’s a section so ate up I’m not sure if I want the job that will come of finishing it. Those holes need filling all the way through. But after the wood dried and I was looking for something to stabilize that would really stand apart, I saw that burnt, ant infested rotten apple, and I remembered the treasure, and built REDANTED.
You’ll see the natural weight is heavy, 21.2 oz — but this shaft must NEVER be used for breaking. It’s a torrefied black birch low deflection high english shaft, designed for steady finesse and carbon fiber-like low deflection.
If you want a purple heart break shaft built to match, that’s doable for $450, with another joint protector gifted.
Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized burnt and ant infested Apple (from Alpaca Luke’s)
Butt Length: 30.5″
Butt Weight: 16.9 oz natural
Shaft Length: 30″
Shaft Weight: 4.3 oz
Ferrule: Tomahawk
Tip: Ultraskin Medium
Tip Diameter: 12.26 mm
Core: Purple Heart
Special Finish: Ant holes
Collars: Phenolic
Pin: 3/8-10 mod, stainless steel
Glue Date: 3/9/26
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Stick 175: Bad Trip
Quick View$1,750.00Butt & Joint Protector: $1075
BurcHowdy & Joint Protector: $675
There is so much funky behavior going on in this stick I don’t know what to say. I used blue dye on one end of the forearm and one end of the butt sleeve. I used red on the other. No idea where the other colors came from. Imagine the party around this punch bowl.
American Hornbeam is also known as Ironwood in west PA. The trees are scrubby and twisted, hard to get nice stuff to work with. On a purple heart core, expect a very firm hit. This is the kind of butt that seems to have its own gravity. Very solid.
Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized American Hornbeam (Ironwood), Ebony, Maple
Butt Length: 30 3/8″
Core: Purple Heart
Collars: Phenolic
Probable full cue natural weight: 20-22 oz.
Pin: 3/8-10 mod; radial
Glue Date: 2/7/26
Earliest Finish Date: 8/26
Email me at Cl*****@***********es.com with questions.
Add an Extension:
- 3-6″ Like-Design: $450
- 7-12″ Like-Design: $500
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Stick 164: Santa’s Fargo
Quick View$1,750.00
Butt & Joint Protector: $1075
BurcHowdy FW Shaft & Joint Protector: $675
Oh, no, not at all. I’m not suggesting Santa shoots with a Character Cue.
I’m suggesting you do. 🙂
Santa’s Fargo is going to be the most deft beast you ever held. Purple heart core means density. In another universe Purple Heart is the source of both gravity and the strong magnetic force. Here on earth, it’s just a perfect core wood when you want a cue that doesn’t cower, but steps forward and says send me.
Cue the biblical goosebumps. The sacrifice you normally make with a purple heart core is the same as its benefit: mass. All that weight in the back makes a stick that oversteers. Wags the dog. Fights your eye.
Not so with Santa’s Fargo! Paired with the BurcHowdy FW (forward weight), the balance point is a healthy 19.5″ from the bumper. So instead of telling you what to do, Santa’s Fargo is the 300lb security man forever waiting your nod. Mass that knows its place. A cue that says Send Me, then carries you to glory.
Ultra low deflection, 12.13 mm medium Ultraskin means english out the wazoo, a short game played with a scalpel wielded by a 300 lb security man who does what you say exactly how you say to do it.
Control. Santa’s Fargo. Don’t wait.
–Clayton
Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized Tiger Maple, Beech
Butt Length: 30″
Cue Weight: 21.6 oz
Cue Length: 60″
Core: Purple Heart
Collars: Tomahawk
Ferrule: Tomahawk
Ferrule Diameter: 12. 13 mm
Tip: Ultraskin Medium
Butt Natural Weight: 17.2 oz.
BurcHowdy FW Weight: 4.4 oz.
Pin: 3/8-10 mod, brass
Glue Date: 9/16/25
Finished: 7/26
Email me at Cl*****@***********es.com with questions.
Add an Extension:
- 3-6″ Like-Design: $450
- 7-12″ Like-Design: $500
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Stick LE150: Limited Edition Batch 2: Blessed are the Reconcilers
Quick View$1,750.00Butt & Joint Protector: $1075
BurcHowdy Burl & Joint Protector: $675
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
Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized Figured Walnut, Black Birch Burl
Butt Length: 30″
Core: Shagbark Hickory (firm hit)
Collars: Phenolic
Natural weight:
Pin: 3/8-10 mod;
Glue Date: 6/17/25
Email me at Cl*****@***********es.com with questions.
Add an Extension:
- 3-6″ Like-Design: $450
- 7-12″ Like-Design: $500
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Stick 114: 1776
Quick View$1,450.00Listing is for butt, BurcHowdy FW, and matching joint protectors.
Woods Used: Mothy oak
Full Core: Hickory
Cue Length: 60″
Cue Natural Weight: 19.4 (drilled and tapped to add up to ounce to butt)
Butt Length: 30″
Butt Weight: 15.3 oz
Shaft Length: 30″
Shaft Weight: 4.1 oz
Pin: 3/8-10 mod
Collar Material: White Tomahawk (firm hit)
Ferrule Material: White Tomahawk
Ferrule Diameter: 12.29 mm
Collar Diameter: .845″
Email me at Cl*****@***********es.com with questions.
Add an Extension:
- 3-6″ Like-Design: $450
- 7-12″ Like-Design: $500
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Protected: Stick 61 The First Kiss
Quick View$775.00Spalted/Stabilized Black Locust, Beech, Walnut BUTT with Black Cherry Burl/Spalted Maple JOINT PROTECTOR: $775
This is the first butt to become available on the “ready to ship” tab on CharacterCues.com for a long while. I could have named it A WALK THROUGH THE WOODS with all the different species involved.
I am enamored with the depth of the burl in the joint protector and with the knots in the black locust, the pale wood next to the butt sleeve. (Did you know Black Locust glows under a black light? Indeed. It causes a stir. And then of course, I can’t fail to mention the walnut’s chatoyance. It’s what they invented the word for. And the beech! Good night! Bolts of orange through bolts of black and brown and burnt bolts — !!!
Plus I added a quarter inch cap of maple on the end of the joint protector just for the squiggles. And the image the squiggles drew in my mind’s eye were of a frog looking off, cap askance, at a summer love arriving to the party to party.
Equipped with extension-accepting bumper.
Woods Used: Black locust (glows in black light), beech, walnut
Butt Length: 29″ including bumper
Full Core: hard maple
Pin: Radial, brass
Collar: .85″ Phenolic
Butt Widest: 1.24″
Weight: 13.3 – 15.3 oz (with weight bolt added before shipping. Be sure to ask because I have to epoxy the extension bumper before shipping, and after that, the weight isn’t changing.)
Shafts: (with decorative like-wood ring)
- Carbon Fiber — $450
- Purple Heart — $400
- BurcHowdy — $400 (low deflection torrefied wood)
- Maple — $350
- Birch — $350
- White Oak — $350
- Cherry — $350
- Walnut — $350
- Sassafras — $350
- Ash — $350
- Hickory — $350
- Black Locust — $350
Like Wood Joint Protector: $75 each
Like-Build Extensions:
3 -6″ — $250
7 – 12″ — $300
To add a shaft, joint protector or extension, please email me at Cl*****@***********es.com.
I’ll set this page up to reflect the cue as you want to purchase it, and password protect it for you until you do so.
