Category: Sold

Butt & Joint Protector: $875

Insurance claim for lost cue Blessed are the Humble: $700

Remainder: $175

Spalted/Stabilized maple and black cherry burl rings sandwiched between brass rings.

Red features breathtaking grain, some burl, all of it black line spalted, much of it with compression. All on a 8.6 oz purple heart core. Expect ridiculous power transfer and commitment with each hit.

Pair with a Black BurcHowdy torrefied Black Birch low deflection shaft — or the BurcHowdy FW to forward weight your cue — for the ultimate Character Cues statement shooter. The secret is getting out. Secure yours now!

Monthly payments. No interest. No automatic bank draft.

Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized Hard Maple, Black Cherry burl

Butt Length: 30″ without bumper

Core: Purple Heart

Collars: Phenolic

Probable full cue natural weight: 18-20 oz.

Pin: 3/8-10 mod; radial

Glue Date: 4/20/26

Earliest Finish Date: 11/26

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 (torrefied low deflection black birch shaft): $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
• 3-6″ Like-Design: $450
• 7-12″ Like-Design: $500

Butt & Joint Protector: $875

BurcHowdy Shaft: $375

BurcHowdy Joint Protector: $75, gifted

Total: $1,250

Spalted/Stabilized maple and black cherry burl on a shagbark hickory core. I made the forearm and butt sleeve from a single piece of spalted maple, chosen for it wild differences in color. Wood rots like an army advances. Sometimes fast here and slow there. Terrain matters. Headless shows the battlefield as the general sees it — except I arrested the war right in the middle, dried that wood to zero humidity, submerged under vacuum in Cactus Juice resin, then soaked in resin, then cooked til hard. The battle lines are frozen. This rotting piece of wood has a different fate. In death, life.

The name?

There’s a headless dude in the cue. Is all.

There are a lot of surface pocks that will be fill opportunities, possibly using electric blue mica to match the rings. Could also use ebony sawdust.

Pair with a Black BurcHowdy torrefied Black Birch low deflection shaft — or the BurcHowdy FW to forward weight your cue — for the ultimate Character Cues statement shooter. The secret is getting out. Secure yours now!

Monthly payments. No interest. No automatic bank draft.

Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized Hard Maple, Black Cherry burl

Butt Length: 30″ without bumper

Core: Hickory

Collars: Phenolic

Probable full cue natural weight: 18-20 oz.

Pin: 3/8-10 mod; radial

Glue Date: 4/20/26

Earliest Finish Date: 11/26

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 (torrefied low deflection black birch shaft): $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
• 3-6″ Like-Design: $450
• 7-12″ Like-Design: $500

Butt & Joint Protector: $1075

Shelter Girl is named in honor of the Lady Jovi, Princess Pit bull of the Lindemuth people, and to whomeversoelse she deigns.

My aunt Jean said when she dies she wants to come back as my dog, which was meant to indicate Jovi gets a lot of attention, but actually sounds weird now that I type it. Anyhoo

This orange wood is spalted and stabilized maple, which gets its action from being both rotten, so there’s lots of fungal lines and color pockets, but also from being part of the tree that supported a sizable branch, so you have a lot of compression swirl. The log I cut the branch nub from is still over at Alpaca Luke’s. Feels like I can hear it calling, sometimes.

The handle with the inlays is Gaboon Ebony. Not to be an ebony snob or anything, but that’s the type that would permit snobbery, were one given to such pleasures.

There’s another block of maple suitable to build an extension, should one be desired, and enough blue for the joint protector/shaft ring, should a shaft be purchased as well.

If you do want the ultimate badass Character Cues shooting experience, pair with a BurcHowdy shaft, regular or heavy, which can help forward-weight your cue and provide both commanding English as well as low-deflection similar to carbon fiber shafts, but with the feel and response of wood.

To purchase the butt & joint protector, to be finished October/November 2026, simply add to cart and check out. Most folks choose a payment plan.

If you’d like to add a shaft and/or an extension, email me at Clayton@CharacterCues.com and I’ll change the page to reflect your preferences.

Monthly payments. No interest. No automatic bank draft.

Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized tiger maple, Gaboon Ebony, Stabilized Beech Rings

Butt Length: 30″

Core: Shagbark Hickory

Collars: Phenolic

Probable butt natural weight: 14-15.5 oz.

Pin: 3/8-10 mod; radial

Glue Date: 3/26/26

Earliest Finish Date: 10/26

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 (torrefied low deflection black birch shaft): $550

Break Shafts: 

• Purple Heart Shaft: $400
• Osage Orange: $400
• Hickory: $350

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

Butt & Joint Protector: $875

BurcHowdy Shaft: $550

Shaft Joint Protector: ($75) gifted

Total: $1,350

Build notes: radial pin, .835 collar, 30″ shaft,  black shaft collar, 12.5mm ferrule

All I can say about this one is that I was thinking about Dune for some reason after looking at the forearm and butt sleeve, and the fungal squiggle lines became a desert landscape, buttes, arroyos, wormsign. 😉

So I found a swirling red piece of black cherry burl and set it between dark red maple and ebony rings to complete the vision.

This butt has a shagbark hickory core. The wood is stabilized in Cactus Juice, which results in wood densities in a range similar to purple heart, ebony, bocote, or cocobolo.

Expect a firm, commanding hit.

Monthly payments. No interest. No automatic bank draft.

Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized tiger maple, Black Cherry Burl, Ebony (rings)

Butt Length: 30″

Core: Shagbark Hickory

Collars: Phenolic

Probable butt natural weight: 14-15.5 oz.

Pin: 3/8-10 mod; radial

Glue Date: 3/10/26

Earliest Finish Date: 11/26

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 (torrefied low deflection black birch shaft): $550

Break Shafts: 

• Purple Heart Shaft: $400
• Osage Orange: $400
• Hickory: $350

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