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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
Rated 5.00 out of 5 -
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 Humble
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
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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 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
Rated 5.00 out of 5 -
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 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
$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 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. 🙂
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.
