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Stick 182: Shelter Girl
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 Cl*****@***********es.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 Cl*****@***********es.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

$1,075.00

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Stick 181: Arrakis
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 Cl*****@***********es.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

$1,350.00

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Stick 177: Burletariat
Butt & Joint Protector: $1325

BurcHowdy Shaft: $550

8″ Extension: $300

Total: $2,100

Black Cherry Burl, Maple Burl, Spalted/Stabilized Maple, Ebony, and Copper rings

Secretariat. I’m not a horse guy. Not a race guy. Not into gambling. I don’t like crowds. But there was a horse called Secretariat that had an oversize heart, descended from another champion with an oversize heart, and racing against another descendant of the champion — that also had an oversize heart — and defeated him by 32 lengths, or 28, or some crazy number.

I am a firm believer that animals possess awareness comparable to our own and in many cases superior. And I believe in that perfect moment when Secretariat won the triple crown, that it was God himself on the track, nostrils flaring, conscious through his creation, savoring excellence, that heart pounding full throttle experience of living in a total embrace of the calamity of the moment.

We are all Secretariat except we run laps around days, not a track. And when we win by 32 lengths, no one sees: we hold sharp tongues. We provide. We give in private. We praise when we want to be silent. We hurt but don’t complain — just change position. We embrace duty and honor with all we have because we were made to run full throttle and we have but moments on the track. We’re Secretariat and the world we honor with our best life will bury us one day, and the only one who will know those wide open moments is the One who lived them with us.

Anyhow, this stick made me think of Secretariat. It’s going to be an absolute stunner.

Pair with a BurcHowdy low deflection shaft for the ultimate Character Cues experience.

Monthly payments. No interest. No automatic bank draft.

Woods Used: Black Cherry Burl, Maple Burl, Spalted/Stabilized Maple, Ebony, and Copper rings

Butt Length: 30

Core: Purple Heart

Collars: Phenolic

Probable full cue natural weight: 18-21 oz.

Pin: 3/8-10 mod; radial

Glue Date: 2/16/26

Earliest Finish Date: 8/26

CAFETERIA STYLE: email me at Cl*****@***********es.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

$2,100.00

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Stick 176: Better Looking Naked
Butt & Joint Protector: $1375

BurcHowdy Shaft: $550

9″ Extenstion, new inlay pattern, $450

Total $2,375

Free JP adjustment: (75)

Total: $2,300

Spalted/Stabilized Maple, Maple Burl

What’s cool about this one? The burl centerpiece looks like Bigfoot squeezed it hard enough to leave an imprint. Those are bark inclusions, bark that gets surrounded and trapped by the wild growth of the burl, and ends up inside.

BADASS.

And second…

Normally I dislike inlays. Cue building — to me — is about showing off the miracle of wood. God gave us this crazy artwork in burl and spalted wood, and to me, the perfect design is the one that best allows the wood to speak for itself. The less of me in there the better. That’s why I don’t much care for inlays, especially not the byzantine stuff that wins awards. Mighty achievements, hats off, respect, but I think they’re ugly.

So why the inlays on this one? Because the pattern in the butt sleeve and forearm is homogeneous. Two colors, mostly, both of which are moody. The pattern between them is hard to decipher, so well do they blend. Their glory comes from the ripple that extends throughout, but again, homogeneous. Normally when someone asks about an inlay I ask, which part of this gorgeous grain do you want me to get rid of? But when its all the same, it doesn’t matter — but you’d better get rid of some of it or you’re going to have a boring stick! In this case, the inlay makes the rippled grain more obvious, and that’s the goal. And greenbling is never wrong.

So in this case I guess the inlays add a little greenbling to the cue, and help frame the majesty of the maple burl in the center. Note, this is soft maple. But I felt okay using it because it’s on a 3/4″ shagbark hickory core and surrounded by very dense stabilized maple. The butt will end up in the normal range, weight wise, and will convey little to no vibration. Pair with a BurcHowdy low deflection shaft for the ultimate Character Cues experience.

Monthly payments. No interest. No automatic bank draft.

Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized Maple, Maple Burl

Butt Length: 30

Core: Shagbark Hickory

Collars: Phenolic

Probable full cue natural weight: 17-19 oz.

Pin: 3/8-10 mod; radial

Glue Date: 2/15/26

Earliest Finish Date: 8/26

CAFETERIA STYLE: email me at Cl*****@***********es.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

$2,300.00

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Stick 174: Betsy, This is Heavens. Come in.
Butt & Joint Protector: $775

BurcHowdy Shaft & Joint Protector: $475

Joint Protector Gifted: $(75)

Total: $1,175

Spalted/Stabilized Yellow Birch, Ebony, Black Cherry Burl

Monthly payments. No interest. No automatic bank draft.

Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized Yellow Birch, Black Cherry Burl, Ebony, Beech

Butt Length: 30 3/8″

Core: Shagbark Hickory

Collars: Phenolic

Probable full cue natural weight: 18-20 oz.

Pin: 3/8-10 mod; radial

Glue Date: 2/7/26

Earliest Finish Date: 8/26

CAFETERIA STYLE: email me at Cl*****@***********es.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

$1,175.00

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Stick 173 Sin in the Saint

Black cherry burl and Gabon ebony on a purple heart core: Butt and Joint protector: $1,275

Matching design burl/ebony jump handle. $450

13mm CF break shaft with burl ring at joint. $450

Matching shaft and jump handle Joint Protectors ($150, gifted)

Total: $2,175

Woods Used: Black cherry burl, Gabon ebony

Butt Length: 30″

Shaft Length: 30″

Jump Handle: 12″

Core: Purple heart forearm tenoned into handle/butt sleeve; hickory or purple heart core for jump handle (buyer preference)

Collars: phenolic

Probable full cue natural weight: 20-22 oz.

Pin: 3/8-10

Glue Date: 1/24/26

Earliest Finish Date: 8/25

Original price was: $2,325.00.Current price is: $2,175.00.

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Stick 172 Shutupinator
Butt & 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 Cl*****@***********es.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

$875.00

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Stick 171: ABIDE
Special Evangel Pricing

Butt, JPs, 7″ Extension, BurcHowdy: $600

Monthly payments. No interest. No automatic bank draft.

Woods Used: Black Birch Burl

Rings: Brass

Butt Length: 30″

Core: Purple Heart or Hickory

Collars: White Tomahawk

Probable full cue natural weight: 18-22 oz. depending on core and pin metal (brass, stainless, aluminum). Purple heart cores are about 2 oz. heavier than hickory, on average. Using a hickory core leaves more possibility of front-weighting the butt and not going over target weight.

Butt with Purple Heart core: 17-18 oz.

Butt with Hickory core: 14-16 oz.

BurcHowdy: 3.7 oz.

Pin: 3/8-10 mod (brass, stainless, or aluminum. Desired weight guides the choice. Pin metal not selected until butt has reached final dimensions and I can give more accurate weight estimates. Goal should be brass or stainless to avoid a back-heavy cue.)

Glue Date:

Earliest Finish Date: 6/26

$600.00

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Protected: Stick 169: Screamer
Butt & Joint Protector: $825

Purple Heart break shaft: $400

Shaft Joint Protector: $75 (gifted)

Total: $1,225

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. Green doesn’t come out of blue and red, normally. But there are so many different hues it’s like someone brought their own colors to the party and dumped it in the punchbowl.

Regardless, American Hornbeam is also known as Ironwood in west PA. The trees are scrubby and twisted, hard to get nice stuff to work with. This is the first butt I’ve done that is all Ironwood on the outside. Expect a very firm hit. This is the kind of butt that seems to have its own gravity. Very solid. Low key and stable, for a screamer.

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.

Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized American Hornbeam (Ironwood)

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: 11/2/25

Earliest Finish Date: 5/26

CAFETERIA STYLE: email me at Cl*****@***********es.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

$1,225.00

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Welcome to Character Cues!

I’m Clayton Lindemuth, gritlit author and cue builder. My Character Cues are crafted from spalted Pennsylvania hardwoods, live edge, and burl from the woods around me. I process and stabilize, slow dry, and build cues the old school way. Not in a hurry. Ain’t setting records. Work day and night and build less than 50 a year.

Cuemaking is my divine charge and my goal is always to showcase God’s creativity and way. I’m proud of these sticks not because of my part, but because their beauty is palpable — it baffles me. I could never have dreamed them, yet they came from my hands. Only God can put words in the mouth of a mule.

Signed, Numbered, Impossible to Replicate

Every Character Cue is a unique creation. Burl grows where trees are attacked and suffer. The fungus that eats rotting wood leaves lines and colors behind. Suffering, death and decay become cue art. Again, only God…

Each stick has a name and a story.

Hand Crafted for You

Uncompromising Quality: Butts hang 6+ months, reduced in size monthly

Personalized Options: Buy a butt while it’s hanging to make payments over time and choose your pin (3/8-10 mod standard; Radial, Uniloc QR available), collar, and weight.

Shaft Versatility: Pair a Character Butt with your favorite shaft. Or get the full Character Cue experience with a matching shaft and/or extension. Choose from carbon fiber, maple, ash, beech, walnut, cherry, white oak, honey locust, hickory, purple heart, or sassafras. 3″ -12″ Extensions optional — both simple and matching the cue design.

Owners love Character Cues signature poise and hit, driven by full-core construction and the natural density of stabilized wood (check product pages for core specs, and take into consideration tip, ferrule material, shaft material and pin size when analyzing hit).

Trusted by Players

Join the Character Cues Facebook Group to see owner reviews, photos, and videos. Ask about the hit, build process, or my lifetime warranty. Curious about the return policy? It’s straightforward and buyer-friendly—check it out.

Indie Author; 1/4 million sold

Clayton Lindemuth’s works have been smashingly reviewed by Publishers Weekly (starred review and best of the week), Indie Next List, Kirkus, BlueInk Review, Foreword Reviews, Seattle Book Review, San Francisco Book Review, Manhattan Book Review, Indie Reader, Reader Views, Spinetingler Magazine, Hardboiled Wonderland, various independent best of the year mentions, (Spinetingler and DoSomeDamage, among others). Clayton’s novels Cold Quiet Country and My Brother’s Destroyer have been published in France by Le Seuil, and have been charmingly reviewed by Le Monde, La Croix, Le Figaro.