Category: Sold

Butt & 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 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

Butt, Joint Protector: $875

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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

Butt & Joint Protector: $775

6 monthly payments. No interest. To see payment plans, add cue to your cart and view your cart.

Here’s another that’s been in pieces for weeks and I finally grabbed a half morning to get it together.

Naturally, the pics right now are crappy. HOWEVER….

I shoulda called the butt JUST DAMN or BONKERS BEAUTY or HOLD MY TUNA SAMMICH, JANE; something over the top.

Because the spalting and grain are out of this world. Squiggles all over the joint. The deepest burnt red (rings) I’ve ever managed. A black/green handle with the craziest network of surface level pocks and crevices — already partly filled with purple mica/epoxy.

Fortune Favors the bold.

Are you?

As with all my hanging butts, if you’re seriously, seriously mulling a purchase but have to make sure you have an explanation that’ll hold water with the Mrs, let me know you need a 24-hour password protect and I’ll lock the page for you.

Butt: $775

CF shaft: $450

Shaft JP: gift

Extension: $250

Total: $1,475

Build notes: CF shaft 12.2mm, cue weight 19.25-19.5 oz; 60″ total length, black Tomahawk ferrule?, white tomahawk cf insert, radial pin

Woods Used: spalted/stabilized maple

Butt Length: 30″

Core: Shagbark Hickory, baby!

Collars: Red/brown phenolic

Full Cue Likely Natural Weight: 17 – 19 oz.

Pin: 3/8-10, radial, QR

Glue Date: 2/19/25

Earliest Finish Date: 9/25

CAFETERIA STYLE:

Butt $700 (burl handle/spalted wood)

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

Extension (3″ – 6″): $250

Extension (7 “- 12″): $300