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Stick 172 Shutupinator
Quick View$875.00Butt & Joint Protector $875
Speak softly and carry a… Shutupinator…
6 monthly payments. (See below.) No interest.
Pair with a purpleheart shaft for the ultimate break monster. Add a matching jump handle to go with your purple heart shaft. Then add a carbon fiber shaft or BurcHowdy for the ultimate in balanced control and low deflection. Shutupinator. You won’t have to say it twice.
Purpleheart is dense, with a Janka score of 2,520 lbs.
Ebony is more dense, with a Janka of 3080.
What is Janka? From Wood Database:
“The actual number listed in the wood profile is the amount of pounds-force (lbf) or newtons (N) required to imbed a .444″ (11.28 mm) diameter steel ball into the wood to half the ball’s diameter. This number is given for wood that has been dried to a 12% moisture content.”
Hard maple, prized among many cue builders, has a Janka of only 1,450.
What’s it mean, really? First, the wood is harder to dent. Second, it’s heavy. Third, the hit is as close to zero vibration as you’re going to get. Just a solid connection with no backsass. When you say move, the cue ball moves. When you say dance, she dances.
Woods Used: Purple heart, Ebony, Spalted/Stabilized Maple (rings), copper rings.
Butt Length: 30″
Core: Wavy Purple tenoned on the ends for forearm and butt sleeve.
Collars: Phenolic
Probable full cue natural weight: 20-22 oz.
Pin: 3/8-10; Radial
Glue Date: 12/21/25
Earliest Finish Date: 6/26
CAFETERIA STYLE:
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: $550
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
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Stick 134: Puzzling
Quick View$975.00Butt & Joint Protector: $975
Puzzling has no signature or number on the body of the butt. I’ve been asked, so I know some folks prefer no sigs. The reason this doesn’t have one is I used gold ink and it vanished under the finish. Maybe it’s there under the right light. I can’t find it.
Both black cherry red rot and walnut, along with black cherry (handle) and maple (red, with all the black squiggles). Comes with black cherry burl joint protector.
I need to get lunch. Then I’ll come back and write up the description. Lots to enjoy on this one!
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/
Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized Black Cherry, Maple, Walnut, Black Cherry Red Rot (dash inlays)
Butt Length: 30 3/8″ with bumper
Butt Weight: 15.1 oz.
Core: shagbark hickory (stronger and more dense than hard maple, the standard)
Collars: White Tomahawk (top shelf. Great hit.)
Pin: 3/8-10 mod
Glue Date: 9/16/25
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 167: ACHTUNG!!!!!
Quick View$825.00Butt & Joint Protector: $825
Spalted/stabilized maple on a purple heart core.
A very nuanced screamer. ACHTUNG!!!!! has a forearm and butt sleeve that had each end soaked in purple stabilizer and then the whole piece was submerged in black stabilizer, then after saturated under vacuum, cooked until solid.
The purple is obvious in the forearm, less so in the sleeve. I went with red for the handle because it is a component color of purple and the black has traces of red in it, as I wanted it to harmonize with deep space/galaxy colors for another build, and this butt benefitted.
Built on a purple heart core, expect a very solid feel in the hand and a steady, firm shooter. Full stick weight likely to be 19-21 oz, natural. Add a purple heart shaft for a break butt that leaves no one in doubt as to who owns the table. Or pair with a BurcHowdy or carbon fiber shaft for a low deflection statement shooter.
One other option: buy a glass cabinet and just look at her all day. 😉
Monthly payments. No interest. No automatic bank draft.
Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized Tiger Maple
Butt Length: 30″
Core: Purple Heart
Collars: Black phenolic
Probable full cue natural weight: 18-20 oz.
Pin: 3/8-10 mod; radial, or QR
Glue Date: 10/6/25
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 166: Cosmic
Quick View$825.00Butt & Joint Protector: $825
Forearm and butt sleeve out of purple and blue, handle section of purple/black tiger maple, handle chosen for ability to do mica that looks like galaxies or nebula.
Monthly payments. No interest. No automatic bank draft.
Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized Tiger Maple, Birch
Butt Length: 30″
Core: Purple Heart
Collars: Black phenolic
Probable full cue natural weight: 18-20 oz.
Pin: 3/8-10 mod; radial, or QR
Glue Date:
Earliest Finish Date:
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 168: Osage Dosage
Quick View$1,175.006 monthly payments. No interest. To see payment plans, add cue to your cart and view your cart.
Current pic shows Purple Heart/Burl to demon the build. Actual butt will be Osage Orange/Denim Blue Ash, in roughly the same proportions, as directed by the buyer.
Butt & Joint protector: $775
Osage Orange break shaft: $400
Shaft Joint Protector: $75 (gifted)
Total: $1,175 paid at beginning.
Matching extension and jump handle: $250/$350 total $600 pd at completion on separate order.
Build Notes: Mainly Osage Orange Handle area the Blue Jean with some Ebony. Have the extension match. Do the jump handle in reverse image.
Woods Used: Osage orange, Ebony, Spalted Ash (electric blue)
Butt Length: 30″
Shaft Length: 30″
Core: Osage orange forearm tenoned into handle/butt sleeve
Collars: Black/Brown Phenolic or White Tomahawk
Probable full cue natural weight: 19 – 21 oz. natural, will be drilled/tapped to add weight if desired.
Pin: 3/8-10
Glue Date:
Earliest Finish Date: 6 mo after glue
CAFETERIA STYLE:
Matching Extension (3″ – 6″): $350
Matching Extension (7 “- 12″): $450
Matching Jump Handle: $450
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Stick 130: Scrambling Man
Quick View$725.00Butt & Joint Protector $725
6 monthly payments. No interest. To see payment plans, add cue to your cart and view your cart.
Pair with a purpleheart shaft for the ultimate break monster. Add a matching jump handle to go with your purple heart shaft. Then add a carbon fiber shaft or BurcHowdy for the ultimate in balanced control and low deflection. Scrambling Man, indeed.
Purpleheart is dense, with a Janka score of 2,520 lbs.
What is Janka? From Wood Database:
“The actual number listed in the wood profile is the amount of pounds-force (lbf) or newtons (N) required to imbed a .444″ (11.28 mm) diameter steel ball into the wood to half the ball’s diameter. This number is given for wood that has been dried to a 12% moisture content.”
Hard maple, prized among many cue builders, has a Janka of only 1,450.
What’s it mean, really? First, the wood is harder to dent. Second, it’s heavy. Third, the hit is as close to zero vibration as you’re going to get. Just a solid connection with no backsass. When you say move, the cue ball moves. When you say dance, she dances.
Scrambling Man. You know when he’s in the room.
Woods Used: Purple heart, Black Birch Burl, copper rings.
Butt Length: 30″
Core: Purple heart forearm tenoned into handle/butt sleeve
Collars: phenolic
Probable full cue natural weight: 20-22 oz.
Pin: 3/8-10; radial, or QR
Glue Date: 3/17/25
Earliest Finish Date: 11/25
CAFETERIA STYLE:
Butt $800
Carbon Fiber Shaft $450
Purple Heart Shaft: $400
Wood shaft: (any species, w/ matching ring) $350
- Maple
- Birch
- Ash
- Sassafras
- Walnut
- White Oak
- Hickory
- Black Locust
- Cherry
Matching wood joint protectors: $75 each
Matching Extension (3″ – 6″): $350
Matching Extension (7 “- 12″): $450
Matching Jump Handle: $450
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Stick 161: Every Girl’s Crazy
Quick View$825.00Butt & Joint Protector: $825
Full Purple Heart core; beech forearm and butt sleeve, handle is oak. In fact looking close at the handle, I’m not sure if that’s a winged angel or a woman with veins popping in her eyes.
Up to you if you finish the name of the stick with “Bout a sharp dressed man,” or just leave it as is, a full and complete statement. For indeed, Every Girl’s Crazy.
But to be clear I suppose every man is too. Doesn’t change anything.
The pics are of the butt right after its first turn on the taper shaper. I applied a coat of CA to show the final colors. Patterns will change as the diameter reduces over the next 6 months.
With a full purple heart core, expect a firm hit and a very balanced, solid feel to the butt. Pair with a purple heart, Osage orange, or hickory shaft for a break monster. Or add a carbon fiber or BurcHowdy shaft for your best low deflection everyday statement shooter.
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 Beech, Oak, brass rings
Butt Length: 30″
Core: Purple Heart
Collars: Phenolic
Probable full cue natural weight: 19-21 oz.
Pin: 3/8-10 mod; radial, or QR
Glue Date: 9/1/25
Earliest Finish Date: 4/26
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. 🙂
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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Protected: Stick 160: Sedona Mud
Quick View$825.00Butt & Joint Protector: $825
There’s another gallon and a half of this orange stabilizer left. After that I’ll never match the color again. The reason?
I had a funky idea: green on one end, purple on the other, then submerge it all in blazing orange for the full stabilization process and cook. I did that with enough wood for 2 sticks and the results are wild. I like. Now.
But when I took them out of the Cactus Juice resin I thought I’d ruined some nice wood. It looked like carnival sewage. The resin on the outside was slick and muddy, stomach-churning, gag-reflex-inducing brown.
I cooked it anyway and when I cut off the outer layer after the wood cooled, I found to my utter shock and delight, burnt orange. I love burnt orange. Years ago when I was a financial planner I painted burnt orange accent walls throughout the building.
While viewing the layouts I thought what these purple/orange/green butts needed was a handle section made out of the composite colors, the orange mud, to kind of tie all the colors together. The handles needed to have a different texture and grain pattern, however, to provide some definition and eye breaks. I knew, however, that the color wouldn’t be the same orange, now that all the other purple and green had a full opportunity to mix.
It was a gamble but what’s a fella to do?
I had just the right wood to give it a try. Stuff that looks good no matter what color it is….
When I started cue building, part of the reason I new God had my back was the immense amount of resources that dropped in my lap. My former neighbor had hauled and left several giant logs about ten feet from the edge of my lawn. He’d left them not on his land, but his father’s, who’d already given me permission to use a bunch of his rotting wood. I happened to run into my former neighbor in town filling gas cans like me and asked about the logs. (A providential meeting. I’ve seen him once in 5 years and it was right after finding the logs.) He said to take them. He’d had a project in mind for them but had moved on from that long ago. One of the logs was tiger maple, and the spalting was generous. Thank you, Hormtown Mowreys. Salt of the Earth.
The log was the trunk of a 48 inch maple with massive compression from all the many tons above. I figured that wavy pattern, with all the other delightful fungal squiggles and whatnot, would make for perfect handles for my purple/orange/green sticks. And since I was going to the trouble of an extra cook to make to 2 handles, may as well add enough for another stick…. just in case the final color was a winner.
Sedona Mud is that other stick.
The current images show the with CA all over, which is the finish I use, and is a perfect expression of what the final colors will be.
This butt has a purple heart core. Add a purple heart, osage orange, or hickory shaft if you want a break monster. Add a carbon fiber or BurcHowdy Black Birch shaft if you want low deflection and massive control. And if you want regular wood, consider any of my regular shaft species, but pay close attention to black birch. It’s stronger, stiffer, has more crushing force, and is slightly lighter than hard maple. Better English. Better control.
The question I have: Is this your Character Cue? There will never be another like it.
–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.
Can be set up with specific monthly payment amount or you can make periodic payments on your own schedule until finish time.
Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized Tiger Maple, Box Elder, copper rings
Butt Length: 30″
Core: Purple Heart
Collars: Phenolic
Probable full cue natural weight: 19-21 oz.
Pin: 3/8-10 mod; radial, or QR
Glue Date: 8/28/25
Earliest Finish Date: 4/26
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. 🙂
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 159: Islander
Quick ViewButt & Joint Protector: $1,325
8-9″ Extension: $450
BurcHowdy: $400
BurcHowdy Joint Protector: $75 (gifted)
Total: $2,175
I’ve been eager to use this Black Cherry and Maple burl since my Amish friends brought it over last fall. It’s been slow drying and is at 9% humidity as of the listing. It’ll be going into the slow kiln to draw it down to 7, then I’ll be deciding where to do some barrel rings or something else.
Update 9/4/25 — I had an idea for the rings and once that hit me, I had to see them. Once I made them I figured I better core the handle while I was at it real quick before I take a break. Then the butt sleeve, and next thing, I was epoxying the butt collar to the core. A little this, a little that, sprinkle some love, splash Gorilla Glue all over the outside to see what the finished colors will look like, and rest.
–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.
Can be set up with specific monthly payment amount or you can make periodic payments on your own schedule until finish time.
Woods Used: Black Cherry Burl, Maple Burl (handle)
Butt Length: 30″
Core: Purple Heart
Collars: Tomahawk
Probable full cue natural weight: 19-21 oz.
Pin: 3/8-10 mod; radial, or QR
Glue Date: 9/4/25
Earliest Finish Date: 3/26
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. 🙂
Low Deflection Shafts:
- Carbon Fiber: $450
- Black BurcHowdy: $400
BREAK SHAFTS:
- Purple Heart Shaft: $400
- Osage Orange: $400
Wood shaft: (any species, w/ matching ring) $350
- Maple
- Black Birch — recommended over maple for better English and snappier control
- 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
$2,250.00Original price was: $2,250.00.$2,175.00Current price is: $2,175.00.
