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Stick 114: 1776
Quick View$775.00Listing is for butt & joint protector.
Woods Used: Mothy oak
Butt Length: 30″
Butt Weight:
Pin: 3/8-10 mod
Collar Material: White Tomahawk (firm hit)
Collar Diameter: .845″
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.
Low Deflection Shafts:
- Carbon Fiber: $450
- Black BurcHowdy: $400
Break Shafts:
- Purple Heart Shaft: $400
- Osage Orange: $400
- Hickory: $350
Wood shaft: (any species, w/ matching ring) $350
- Maple
- Black Birch (recommended)
- Ash
- Sassafras
- Walnut
- Hickory
- Honey Locust
- Beech
- Cherry
Matching wood joint protectors: $75 each
Extensions:
- 3-6″ Same Wood: $250
- 7-12″ Same Wood: $300
- 3-6″ Like-Design: $450
- 7-12″ Like-Design: $500
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Stick 108: Watering Time
Quick View$775.00Listing is for butt and joint protector.
Whether you collect cues or just wait for the one that speaks to you, Brother, Sister, listen!
Watering Time has a full hard maple core. I won’t josh you and say the core is the hit. Too many things go into the hit, most of them closer to where the hittin’s going on. But cores matter, and hard maple is the benchmark. This one has a full core, meaning, there’s no screw in the middle of the butt, just a solid 3/4″ to 5/8″ time-turned dowel in the middle. (I turn cores over time, like shafts and butts, to reduce probability of warping later.)
The outside is rare for Character Cues, spalted and stabilized mothy oak. If you’re new to Character Cues, I grab dead rotten trees from the woods, cut them open and when I find cool patterns, I dry the wood to zero percent humidity, stabilize it in Cactus Juice resin, and the resulting wood/material is nearly as dense as purple heart. That’s the secret to Character Cues. Shush don’t tell. The stabilized material is nearly impossible to warp without applying heat or moisture. Strong and dense and beautiful.
There’s a joke hanging low to pluck, but I’ll leave it.
Watering Time is red white and blue, with all the moth holes and white oak cracks filled with black epoxy. There’s a couple places in the black/white handle with magenta mica in the mothholes, as stories with a twist at the end are more satisfying.
Pay no mind to the CCCCC pattern on the handle. This a guaranteed ZERO COMMUNIST pool cue butt, though the people themselves are just sinners like me. (It’s always the gubmint working evil while the people try to survive.)
Notice the colors and the name.
Unless you favor a slow, careful break, don’t pair Watering Time with a break shaft. This is an everyday statement shooter for someone who likes a medium hit, a fairly wide handle, and a butt that draws eyes like flies to a stinkpile.
Sorry I slipped in some sales lingo. 🙂
Notice there’s a pic with another short tube of blue mothy oak. I’m making the joint protector out of that, and there’s enough to make a fancy matching shaft. Maybe grab Watering Time and add one of the last remaining Limited Edition BurcHowdies, and get a prototype to match Watering Time. Just a thought. (Here’s a tease. There’s a BurcHowdy review video on the way. The shaft is for real.)
I love every cue I build, but there’s only a handful that have that one thing. This one has that rare difference that invites the mind to muse.
Butt is available to buy from this page. Just add to cart and checkout. If you’d like to add a shaft, email me at clayton@charactercues.com and let me know what’s on your mind. I’ll password protect the page for you and add whatever you want to the listing.
Woods Used: Mothy oak
Full Core: Hard Maple
Butt Length: 29 5/8″
Butt Weight: 14.8 oz. (drilled/tapped to add up to 1.5 oz. Just ask.)
Pin: 3/8-10 modified, brass
Collar Diameter .845″
Butt Widest: 1.248
Glue Date: 9/9/24
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.
Low Deflection Shafts:
- Carbon Fiber: $450
- Black BurcHowdy: $400
Break Shafts:
- Purple Heart Shaft: $400
- Osage Orange: $400
- Hickory: $350
Wood shaft: (any species, w/ matching ring) $350
- Maple
- Black Birch (recommended)
- Ash
- Sassafras
- Walnut
- Hickory
- Honey Locust
- Beech
- Cherry
Matching wood joint protectors: $75 each
Extensions:
- 3-6″ Same Wood: $250
- 7-12″ Same Wood: $300
- 3-6″ Like-Design: $450
- 7-12″ Like-Design: $500
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Stick 89: Bikini
Quick View$775.00Spalted/Stabilized Apple and Beech BUTT with JOINT PROTECTOR: $775
Woods Used: Spalted/Stabilized Maple burl, maple
Core: Hickory
Butt Length: 29 5/16″
Butt Weight: 15 oz. (drilled and tapped to add up to 1.5 oz. Just ask)
Pin: 3/8-10 mod, stainless
Collar: Tomahawk
Collar Diameter: .845″
Butt Widest: 1.256″
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.
Low Deflection Shafts:
- Carbon Fiber: $450
- Black BurcHowdy: $400
Break Shafts:
- Purple Heart Shaft: $400
- Osage Orange: $400
- Hickory: $350
Wood shaft: (any species, w/ matching ring) $350
- Maple
- Black Birch (recommended)
- Ash
- Sassafras
- Walnut
- Hickory
- Honey Locust
- Beech
- Cherry
Matching wood joint protectors: $75 each
Extensions:
- 3-6″ Same Wood: $250
- 7-12″ Same Wood: $300
- 3-6″ Like-Design: $450
- 7-12″ Like-Design: $500
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Stick 88: Trunks
Quick View$775.00Spalted/Stabilized Maple/Maple Burl BUTT with JOINT PROTECTOR: $775
To be perfectly honest, this butt hung a long time because I thought it was boring. I kept scratching my head (polite way of saying I was calling myself a dipshit) as to why I chose such a blank piece of maple for the forearm.
Well sometimes a man finds evidence someone’s looking out for him. What a butt! I finished this one yesterday and it’s just silly how gorgeous it is. That long blank maple forearm has a flaming fungal poop line at the base, all the way around. (I’m pretty sure those black squiggles from the fungi are poop, not road lines or somesuch.)
If you’re new to Character Cues, I grab dead rotten trees from the woods, cut them open and when I find cool patterns, I dry the wood to zero percent humidity, stabilize it in Cactus Juice resin, and the resulting wood/material is nearly as dense as purple heart. That’s the secret to Character Cues. Shush don’t tell. The stabilized material is nearly impossible to warp without applying heat or moisture. Strong and dense and beautiful.
The handle is also maple, though from a different tree, not at my place but Alpaca Luke’s. I don’t know whether it’s burl or just highly figured, as the log was so rotten I couldn’t tell if what I cut off was the nub of a branch or a burl the size of an end table. The grain is just bananas. Bonkers. Depthful. And the pattern with the white mica brings to mind a young man walking a dark trail and bringing his own light.
Butt is available to buy from this page. Just add to cart and checkout. If you’d like to add a shaft, email me at clayton@charactercues.com and let me know what’s on your mind. I’ll password protect the page for you and add whatever you want to the listing.
This butt has a full hickory core. Hickory is denser and stronger than hard maple. Skilled players will feel a difference. Add a BurcHowdy for the ultimate low deflection experience.
Woods Used: figured spalted maple/burl, maple,
Butt Length: 29 3/4″
Butt Weight: 15 oz. (drilled and tapped to add up to 1.5 oz)
Full Core: hickory
Pin: 3/8-10 modified, stainless steel
Collar: .845″
Butt Widest: 1.249″
Collar Material: Black Phenolic
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/
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.
Low Deflection Shafts:
- Carbon Fiber: $450
- Black BurcHowdy: $400
Break Shafts:
- Purple Heart Shaft: $400
- Osage Orange: $400
- Hickory: $350
Wood shaft: (any species, w/ matching ring) $350
- Maple
- Black Birch (recommended)
- Ash
- Sassafras
- Walnut
- Hickory
- Honey Locust
- Beech
- Cherry
Matching wood joint protectors: $75 each
Extensions:
- 3-6″ Same Wood: $250
- 7-12″ Same Wood: $300
- 3-6″ Like-Design: $450
- 7-12″ Like-Design: $500
