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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 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. 🙂
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 LE153: Limited Edition Batch 2: Blessed is the Just
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 IS THE JUST is made of the piece of wood that gave me the idea for the batch. It was the first one that I set aside, cut extra long and big from the getgo, with a single cue in mind. there’s another contiguous piece that would make the extension. Alpaca Luke and I were out on his land the year I started Character Cues and when I sawed open the log I cried. It has made some of the most dazzling butts to come out of Character Cues.
This is one.
–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 (Alpaca Luke’s), 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 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. 🙂
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 LE152: Blessed are the Compassionate
Quick ViewButt & Joint Protector: $775
BurcHowdy low deflection torrefied black birch shaft: $400
Shaft Joint Protector: $75 (gifted, thank you.)
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 COMPASSIONATE is curly maple from the log that got me started on the spalted cuebuilding journey, a log placed so providently I’m sure it was by Design. Those delicate horsehair-pottery looking squiggles in the pale wood (maple) are from the fungus that got rid of all that pulpy stuff we don’t want, so we could fill the wood structure with resin. Thank you fungus! The middle section is some pretty busy walnut. Look close. That grain needs put in a padded cell. It’s bonkers. Rings? Black birch burl sided by brass.
Take a good look. She’s up for 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.
Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized Hormtown Maple, Figured Walnut, Black Cherry Red Rot
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 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. 🙂
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
$1,250.00Original price was: $1,250.00.$1,175.00Current price is: $1,175.00. -
Stick 148: Hi Faluter
Quick ViewButt, 9.5″ Extension & Joint Protector: $1,475
11.8mm Carbon Fiber Shaft with like ring: $450
Like Wood Shaft Joint Protector: $75 (gifted)
Total $1,925
Images show butt & extension after 1 turn and coated with CA (finish) to demonstrate what the final colors will be.
Most all of my butts contain spalted and stabilized wood. 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 (on other sticks; this one’s all maple on a shagbark hickory core) and have it produce a hit like purple heart or some other dense wood.
Here’s what I love about this butt: The squiggles, the wood that wasn’t spalted, didn’t accept the resin, and retained its normal sandy brown color, and most of all, the spalted burlish/highly figured maple.
The squiggles sometimes mark the progress of the fungus that ate the wood. Sometimes the squiggles are one color on one side and another on the other, and since both sides are spalted, the only thing I can surmise is that different fungi consume trees differently, and something about the size or shape of the gaps they leave (where they eat wood, they leave air and fungus poop I guess) causes the wood to absorb different amounts of pigment in the resin.
Note, it’s only the color that changes, not the hardness of the stabilized wood, so it must be the size of the molecules in the pigment that prevent some of it from getting through. The resin is or the wood wouldn’t be hard. (Unstabilized spalted wood is so weak you can often break it in your hands. Stabilized spalted wood can be beat with a sledge hammer. I’ve done it on a couple YouTube videos to prove how it holds up.)
Other times there’s just lines everywhere and the color is consistent. Must have been a single fungus with a monster appetite.
Then there’s the wood that is not spalted and retains its wood look. Those areas tend to give significant depth and sometimes a 3D pop. Always fascinating.
Last, the burly stuff. The maple I used was so degraded on the outside I couldn’t tell if I was cutting a where a limb had met the tree or if it was a burl. Maple is capable of a lot of different patterns when it forms burl, among those patterns are the grain-any-whichway you see in much of the blue/turquoise.
Be sure to click on the magnifying glass on the top corner of the main pic. Makes it easy to go through all the images, sized to your screen. Also be sure to check out the close ups. This is some of the busiest and most beautiful spalted/stabilized maple you’ll see anywhere.
Monthly payments. No interest.
Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized Hormtown Maple
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: 5/25/25
Earliest Finish Date: 12/25
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. 🙂
Carbon Fiber Shaft $450
Purple Heart Shaft: $400
Wood shaft: (any species, w/ matching ring) $350
- Maple
- Beech
- Ash
- Sassafras
- Walnut
- White Oak
- Hickory
- Honey Locust
- Beech
- Cherry
Matching wood joint protectors: $75 each
$2,000.00Original price was: $2,000.00.$1,925.00Current price is: $1,925.00. -
Stick 147: Team Colors
Quick View$775.00Butt & Joint Protector: $775
Most all of my butts contain spalted and stabilized wood. 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 (on other sticks; this one’s all maple on a honey locust core) and have it produce a hit like purple heart or some other dense wood.
Here’s what I love about this butt: The squiggles and the wood that wasn’t spalted, didn’t accept the resin, and retained its normal sandy brown color.
The squiggles sometimes mark the progress of the fungus that ate the wood. Sometimes the squiggles are one color on one side and another on the other, and since both sides are spalted, the only thing I can surmise is that different fungi consume trees differently, and something about the size or shape of the gaps they leave (where they eat wood, they leave air and fungus poop I guess) causes the wood to absorb different amounts of pigment in the resin.
Note, it’s only the color that changes, not the hardness of the stabilized wood, so it must be the size of the molecules in the pigment that prevent some of it from getting through. The resin is or the wood wouldn’t be hard. (Unstabilized spalted wood is so weak you can often break it in your hands. Stabilized spalted wood can be beat with a sledge hammer. I’ve done it on a couple YouTube videos to prove how it holds up.)
Other times, such as the gold section, there’s just lines everywhere and the color is consistent. Must have been a single fungus with a monster appetite.
Still other places are like what I mention above as my favorite feature, where the wood is not spalted and retains its wood look. Those areas tend to give significant depth and sometimes a 3D pop. Always fascinating.
Be sure to click on the magnifying glass on the top corner of the main pic. Makes it easy to go through all the images, sized to your screen. Also be sure to check out the close ups. This is some of the busiest and most beautiful spalted/stabilized maple you’ll see anywhere.
Monthly payments. No interest.
Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized Hormtown Maple (gold & black)
Butt Length: 30″
Core: Honey Locust (medium hit, like hard maple)
Collars: Phenolic
Probable full cue natural weight: 18-19 oz.
Pin: 3/8-10 mod; radial, or QR
Glue Date: 5/24/25
Earliest Finish Date: 12/25
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. 🙂
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 146: Sir
Quick ViewCurrent Bid: $875.00
I started the auction on SIR while finishing it and uploading pics to the Character Cues facebook group. You can revisit that history and other sticks here.
This is a rare butt. I’ve only made 4 with any toadstool in them; this has the most. First time for joint protectors made from toadstool. It shrinks a lot when being dried and stabilized, and due to the growth patterns the pieces I stabilized were unable to provide any large parts. I have one more piece of toadstool and I have Amish friends sourcing more for me . I hope to get some this fall, but I’m also fine with gems being rare.
So the butt named Sir is a solid piece of hickory with slot rings and toadstool. Has a 2 ounce weight bolt in the butt that can be taken out and replaced with smaller increments, as well as an extension-accepting bumper (takes a 5/16-14 thread). Yes, I have another piece of toadstool that could form the basis of an extension. $450-$550 depending on length.
I mixed orange and copper mica with CA glue to fill the gaps that would otherwise all but disappear under a finish. The result is a glimmering world of tubules and geometric patterns that make one marvel at the Creator’s wild ass… creativity. I absolutely delight in seeing the care he put into a fungus because I’m waaaaaaaay cooler than a fungus. I rest knowing he puts that care into me too; up down big small he’s there. Sorry to get too God Freak Real with you, but sometimes you have to shout the truth. We live in a magnificently created universe.
Exhibit #1: Toadstool.
Woods Used: Solid Shagbark Hickory with a stabilized TOADSTOOL butt sleeve sided by triple slot rings.Collars: white Tomahawk (premium stuff)Extension Hardware Thread: 5/16-14Butt Length: 30″ (With bumper and joint protector, requires 32″ case)Butt Weight: 13.9 – 15.9 oz (contains removable 2 oz weight bolt, 3/8-16.)Pin: Radial (brass)Joint Collar: .85″Widest: 1.236″Warranty: Lifetime
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Stick LE143: Denim 80s Girls: Valerie, What?
Quick View$1,775.00Butt, Joint Protector, Extension: $1,775
Images show gaps on either side of the burl handle that will be larger to accommodate rings with 1/2″ rectangle slots, sandwiched between electric blue and black or white slot rings. Images also show extension that is not yet cut to 6″.
6 monthly payments. No interest. To see payment plans, add cue to your cart and view your cart.
Woods Used: Ash (blue), Black Cherry burl
Butt Length: 30″
Core: Purple Heart
Collars: White Tomahawk
Probable full cue natural weight: 19-21 oz.
Pin: Uniloc Quick Release
Glue Date:
Earliest Finish Date: 12/25
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Stick LE140: Denim 80s Girls: One Thin Ring
Quick View$1,575.00One Thin Ring can mean a lot. Sometimes One Thin Ring will be significant because it goes around a woman’s finger and a closed circle means something, as does the capture. The ring owns the finger, not the other way around, according to that symbolic meaning. One submits like a king to a palace.
Other times One Thin Ring can gain significance by being different. Crop circles stand out because not because they have some newly discovered property — roundness — but because they don’t conform with the rest of the field. That’s a good thing, minus the crop damage. How we love to ponder the significance of unclear symbols!
The greatest treasure a mind can hope for is meaning that can be grasped, turned over, inspected, and placed where it grabs the eye and reminds us why it matters. We like truths heavy enough to stay where we put them.
Often we search for the meaning we hope, but find another, or none. Not every symbol hides meaning worth the mental horsepower required to expose it — and some symbols are Trojan horses. Best to keep their gifts out your head.
And alas, still other times, One Thing Ring is a mistake. No meaning — unless — that moment of misplaced attention, frozen in time, shiny, is like an atom pregnant in the waveform, not yet collapsed by the eye of the beholder into the meaning it needs to see, somewhere, anywhere, or all is lost. Then One Thin Ring becomes the love of your life, a partner in the chaos, a holder of truth, a cache of hope.
All I can say is, I dig all of them.
Butt, Joint Protector, BurcHowdy, shaft JP gifted, with customer loyalty discounts: $1,575
Woods Used: Yellow Birch (rings), White Ash (blue handle), Black Birch burl
Butt Length: 30″
Core: Purple Heart
Collars: Phenolic
Butt Weight: 19-21 oz.
Pin: 3/8-10 mod; brass
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): $375/400 (see current pricing)
Break Shafts:
- Purple Heart Shaft: $400
- Osage Orange: $400
- Hickory: $350
Wood shaft: (any species, w/ matching ring) $350
- Maple
- Sassafras
- Walnut
- Honey Locust
- Cherry
Matching wood joint protectors: $75 each
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Stick LE138: Denim 80s Girls: Pam’s Calves That’s All
Quick View$875.00Butt, Joint Protector: $875
6 monthly payments. No interest. To see payment plans, add cue to your cart and view your cart.
Woods Used: Ash (blue), Black Birch burl
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: 5/26/25
Earliest Finish Date: 12/25
