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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. -
Stick 157: Manifest
Quick View$775.00Butt & Joint Protector: $775
The interesting thing to me is the blue is the same on each end. Stark and bold. It’s exactly like my favorite suit, which hopefully I will never wear again. Alive. But the jazz is in the transition in the middle, which features the heavy, open- wound grain of white ash. The three rings on the bottom are black and the three on top are blue. The addition of the rings creates the transition effect from dark to light. Otherwise it’s just an angry blue handle. Butt’s name is MANIFEST
–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.
Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized Beech, White Ash (soon to be extinct, very possibly).
Butt Length: 30″
Core: Honey Locust (hits like hard maple)
Collars: Phenolic
Probable full cue natural weight: 18-19 oz.
Pin: 3/8-10 mod; radial, or QR
Glue Date: 6/19/25
Earliest Finish Date: 1/26
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. 🙂
Butt $700
Carbon Fiber Shaft $450
Purple Heart Shaft: $400
Wood shaft: (any species, w/ matching ring) $350
- Maple
- Birch
- Ash
- Sassafras
- Walnut
- White Oak
- Hickory
- Honey Locust
- Beech
- Cherry
Matching wood joint protectors: $75 each
Extensions:
- 3-6″ Simple: $250
- 7-12″ Simple: $300
- 3-6″ Like-Design: $450
- 7-12″ Like-Design: $500
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Stick LE156: Limited Edition Batch 2: Blessed are the Poor in Spirit
Quick View$700.00Butt & Joint Protector: $700
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 ARE THE HUMBLE is glorious spalted Hormtown Oak. The patterns are simply a delight. Nothing else is like spalted oak. Look close at the forearm and butt sleeve.
Also look close at the walnut handle. The grain is chock full of swirling black and tan contrasts. Spalted and stabilized so its much denser than regular old walnut, which is three steps removed from balsa. This stuff is more akin a rock.
Blessed are the Humble is the most understated butt of the collection at first glance, and easily the prettiest per square inch when you look close.
That’s significant.
–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.
Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized Oak, Figured Walnut, Black Cherry red rot rings set between Copper rings.
Butt Length: 30″
Core: Shagbark Hickory (firm hit)
Collars: Phenolic
Probable full cue natural weight: 18-19 oz.
Pin: 3/8-10 mod; radial, or QR
Glue Date: 6/17/25
Earliest Finish Date: 1/26
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. 🙂
Butt $700
Carbon Fiber Shaft $450
Purple Heart Shaft: $400
Wood shaft: (any species, w/ matching ring) $350
- Maple
- Birch
- Ash
- Sassafras
- Walnut
- White Oak
- Hickory
- Honey Locust
- Beech
- Cherry
Matching wood joint protectors: $75 each
Extensions:
- 3-6″ Simple: $250
- 7-12″ Simple: $300
- 3-6″ Like-Design: $450
- 7-12″ Like-Design: $500
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Stick LE155: Limited Edition Batch 2: Blessed are the Sorrowful
Quick View$775.00Butt & Joint Protector: $775
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, white ash, 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 ARE THE SORROWFUL is, I am pleased to say, going to be the first of many white ash butts. Alpaca Luke excels at many things, among them are owning dead and rotting trees. White ash is disappearing fast due to a beetle and the outlook is grim. However, there are “lingering ash” that seem like survivors, and tree people and hippies and other good people are trying to ensure they soldier on as a species. I hope so. Ash is good for nearly everything. Especially Character Cues.
–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.
Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized White Ash, donated by Alpaca Luke. Walnut from over at John’s hunting camp and black birch burl between copper rings
Butt Length: 30″
Core: Shagbark Hickory (firm hit)
Collars: Phenolic
Probable full cue natural weight: 18-19 oz.
Pin: Uniloc QR
Carbon Fiber Shaft: 12.2mm
Glue Date: 6/17/25
Earliest Finish Date: 1/26
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. 🙂
Butt $700
Carbon Fiber Shaft $450
Purple Heart Shaft: $400
Wood shaft: (any species, w/ matching ring) $350
- Maple
- Birch
- Ash
- Sassafras
- Walnut
- White Oak
- Hickory
- Honey Locust
- Beech
- Cherry
Matching wood joint protectors: $75 each
Extensions:
- 3-6″ Simple: $250
- 7-12″ Simple: $300
- 3-6″ Like-Design: $450
- 7-12″ Like-Design: $500
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Stick LE154: Limited Edition Batch 2: Blessed are the Gentle
Quick View$775.00Butt & Joint Protector: $775
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 ARE THE GENTLE is more of Alpaca Luke’s maple log that floated from somewhere on his land to somewhere else, where it waited possibly quite a few years for him and I to wander along with a chainsaw seeking beauty. I’ve gone back several times. Every piece gets hauled out on my shoulders. The log produces the wood that’s been all over some of my best butts. Those jagged double black lines bring much to the imagination.
The handle is black cherry red rot with evidence of some kind of white rot fungi — a name that refers to an actual thing. There are several such fungi and I haven’t figured out which is featured on Blessed are the Gentle. But I’m sure its an actual thing too! Those white marks will appear in the finished butt, though the exact patterns throughout the butt will change as the diameter is reduced over the next 6 months until the end of 2025.
–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.
Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized Maple from Alpaca Luke’s, Black Cherry Red Rot, Walnut rings, Brass rings.
Butt Length: 30″
Core: Shagbark Hickory (firm hit)
Collars: Phenolic
Probable full cue natural weight: 18-19 oz.
Pin: 3/8-10 mod; radial, or QR
Glue Date: 6/17/25
Earliest Finish Date: 1/26
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. 🙂
Butt $700
Carbon Fiber Shaft $450
Purple Heart Shaft: $400
Wood shaft: (any species, w/ matching ring) $350
- Maple
- Birch
- Ash
- Sassafras
- Walnut
- White Oak
- Hickory
- Honey Locust
- Beech
- Cherry
Matching wood joint protectors: $75 each
Extensions:
- 3-6″ Simple: $250
- 7-12″ Simple: $300
- 3-6″ Like-Design: $450
- 7-12″ Like-Design: $500
