Category: Sold

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 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

Butt & 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

Butt & Joint Protector: $825

BurcHowdy torrefied low deflection shaft and Joint Protector: $550

Total: $1,375

What’s special here? The top of the butt was dipped in yellow, the bottom in black. The forearm (top) and butt sleeve (bottom) were dipped in green on the ends closest the handle section. Then the forearm and butt sleeve were submerged in burnt orange. (see first video) Four colors in the resin and a fifth in the purple rings.

Also note the grain is aligned through the beech and maple ring sections. The handle is heavily spalted tiger maple with a single shade of green in the resin. All the color dynamics in the handle are from the coloring left by the wood or most often, the fungus that ate it!

For a closeup on the grain and a rotational look, see the second video below.

Collars can be swapped out with black, white, or even shades of brown. Butt currently has a darker brown on the bottom. Got my collars mixed half and half with another set and didn’t notice until the finish was on them, as they look the same before.

–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, Beech

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: 9/16/25

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

6 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