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Stick 120: Swing Hard

Stick 120: Swing Hard
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Stick 120: Swing Hard

 

6 monthly payments. No interest.

 

Woods Used: spalted maple (from Alpaca Luke’s) and/or spalted tiger maple, black cherry burl (handle), soft curly maple inlays.

Cue Build:

  • Dark blue on the ends of the forearm and butt sleeve, purple between; choicest wood from the cook, and I’ll be using the best stuff I have for the entire cook. We’ll have some extraordinary wood to work with. The maple and tiger maple is heavily lined, some quite curly, and has areas of visible contrast in color. The handle will be dark or electric blue black cherry burl.
  • The forearm has 4 floating points made of bright silver super curly maple
  • 8-diamond rings of the same curly maple are on either side of the black cherry burl handle
  • The 8-diamond rings have window rings (alternating blue and purple) with thick nickel silver rings on either side of them.
  • The black cherry burl handle will be dyed blue but will have a reddish hue, and the grain will be super animated and swirling burl, making the handle look like a wooden gemstone.
  • The butt sleeve will feature an inlaid image honoring RH’s son.
  • The effect will be a darkish cue with swirling blue and purple, deep black lines and gentle shading changes within each section, with highly contrasting brightness given by the floating points, diamond inlays, and nickel silver rings.
  • We’ll test collar colors to see what works best, selecting from white (Tomahawk or Juma), black phenolic, or 3 shades of brown phenolic.
  • Ferrule of violet Juma Gemstone.
  • Shaft of birch (a little more attitude than maple; best English of my 10 species) with matching ringwork and colors as found on the butt.
  • The cue’s 6″ extension will be made of the same wood as the butt sleeve, again with matching ringwork.

Butt Length: 30″

Core: Hickory

Target Weight:

Pin: 3/8-10 (.84 or .845″) or Radial (.85″) or Uniloc (.85″)

Schedule: likely glue date in January due to complexity of the build.

 

 

CAFETERIA STYLE:

Butt with burl handle: $800

Inlay for Image: $200

Inlaid curly maple floating points: $200

Inlaid diamonds: $250

Slot rings: $200

Wood Shaft with Matching Ring: $350

Matching wood joint protectors: Gifted ($150)

6″ Extension: $250

Ferrule of violet Juma Gemstone: $10

 

Original price was: $2,410.00.Current price is: $2,260.00.

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Hello, I’m Clayton Lindemuth, the grit lit author responsible for the Baer Creighton series and more. I started building cues as a way to keep the creative engines going while waiting on the muse to strike, and now I spend almost all my time in the shop. I focus on spalted, live edge, and burl cues that I build from hardwoods I harvest, process, and stabilize myself, drawn from the woods around me in Hormtown, Pa.

I use cue building processes learned from masters of the industry. Video courses, books, mentors, and forever testing new methods. Learn about my building process from my YouTube channel and be sure to subscribe.

I will work to my utmost to ensure your cue is how you want it and that our relationship is always warm.

Problems? This cue comes with a lifetime warranty and a 14 day return/refund policy.

Feel free to use the payment plan if purchasing this cue before completion.

I’ll consult you before building shafts to be sure to meet your preferred specs — collar material/color, tip diameter, ferrule color, material, that sort of thing.

–Clayton

 

 

 

Lifetime Warranty

Oh my gosh Clayton! I got my stick today and it is just beautiful and shoots great!

My words cannot express  the beauty and workmanship you have created!

Thank you, thank you, thank you so very much!!!!

Also, I loved the letter sent with the stick♥️

— Aggie McFarlane

Stick 126: Too Sexy

Welcome to Character Cues!

I’m Clayton Lindemuth, gritlit author and cue builder. My Character Cues are crafted from spalted Pennsylvania hardwoods, live edge, and burl from the woods around me. I process and stabilize, slow dry, and build cues the old school way. Not in a hurry. Ain’t setting records. Work day and night and build less than 50 a year.

Cuemaking is my divine charge and my goal is always to showcase God’s creativity and way. I’m proud of these sticks not because of my part, but because their beauty is palpable — it baffles me. I could never have dreamed them, yet they came from my hands. Only God can put words in the mouth of a mule.

Signed, Numbered, Impossible to Replicate

Every Character Cue is a unique creation. Burl grows where trees are attacked and suffer. The fungus that eats rotting wood leaves lines and colors behind. Suffering, death and decay become cue art. Again, only God…

Each stick has a name and a story.

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Hand Crafted for You

Uncompromising Quality: Butts hang 6+ months, reduced in size monthly

Personalized Options: Buy a butt while it’s hanging to make payments over time and choose your pin (3/8-10 mod standard; Radial, Uniloc QR available), collar, and weight.

Shaft Versatility: Pair a Character Butt with your favorite shaft. Or get the full Character Cue experience with a matching shaft and/or extension. Choose from carbon fiber, maple, ash, beech, walnut, cherry, white oak, honey locust, hickory, purple heart, or sassafras. 3″ -12″ Extensions optional — both simple and matching the cue design.

Owners love Character Cues signature poise and hit, driven by full-core construction and the natural density of stabilized wood (check product pages for core specs, and take into consideration tip, ferrule material, shaft material and pin size when analyzing hit).

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Join the Character Cues Facebook Group to see owner reviews, photos, and videos. Ask about the hit, build process, or my lifetime warranty. Curious about the return policy? It’s straightforward and buyer-friendly—check it out.

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Indie Author; 1/4 million sold

Clayton Lindemuth’s works have been smashingly reviewed by Publishers Weekly (starred review and best of the week), Indie Next List, Kirkus, BlueInk Review, Foreword Reviews, Seattle Book Review, San Francisco Book Review, Manhattan Book Review, Indie Reader, Reader Views, Spinetingler Magazine, Hardboiled Wonderland, various independent best of the year mentions, (Spinetingler and DoSomeDamage, among others). Clayton’s novels Cold Quiet Country and My Brother’s Destroyer have been published in France by Le Seuil, and have been charmingly reviewed by Le Monde, La Croix, Le Figaro.

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