Category: Ready to Ship

Butt & Joint Protector: $825

BurcHowdy FW Shaft & Joint Protector: $500

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

Butt, Burchowdy Shaft and matched joint protectors $1325

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

Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized Apple, Black Birch Burl

Cue Length:

Cue Weight:

Butt Length: 30 1/4″

Butt Weight: 16.1 oz, drilled/tapped to add up to 1.5 oz.

BurcHowdy Length:

BurcHowdy Weight:

Ferrule Material: Tomahawk

Ferrule Diameter:

Tip: Ultraskin Medium

Collar Diameter: .845″

Butt Widest: 1.26″

Core: Shagbark Hickory (firm hit)

Collars: Phenolic

Pin: 3/8-10 mod, brass

Glue Date: 6/17/25