Stick 180: REDANTED

Stick 180: REDANTED

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Stick 180: REDANTED

Butt & Joint Protector: $1275

BurcHowdy Shaft: $475

Total: $1,750

Special finish: ant holes, rhinestones, mica

I was out at my buddy Alpaca Luke’s a couple years ago helping throw bales in the barn. Masculine stuff. We built a fire and drank a couplefew beverages and across the fire, rotting, was a part burned log of considerable rot.

Of course when I spot a treasure I try to impress upon its owner its many charms. Those ant holes get filled with resin — the whole log! well, pieces anyway! and then mica and CA…. that’s super glue, yes! and anyway you fill the holes and, yes, I’ll have one more and then it’s the road. You mind if I grab that log?

So I cut the log into sections and dry some of them, and then there’s a section so ate up I’m not sure if I want the job that will come of finishing it. Those holes need filling all the way through. But after the wood dried and I was looking for something to stabilize that would really stand apart, I saw that burnt, ant infested rotten apple, and I remembered the treasure, and built REDANTED.

You’ll see the natural weight is heavy, 21.2 oz — but this shaft must NEVER be used for breaking. It’s a torrefied black birch low deflection high english shaft, designed for steady finesse and carbon fiber-like low deflection.

If you want a purple heart break shaft built to match, that’s doable for $450, with another joint protector gifted.

Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized burnt and ant infested Apple (from Alpaca Luke’s)

Butt Length: 30.5″

Butt Weight: 16.9 oz natural

Shaft Length: 30″

Shaft Weight: 4.3 oz

Ferrule: Tomahawk

Tip: Ultraskin Medium

Tip Diameter: 12.26 mm

Core: Purple Heart

Special Finish: Ant holes

Collars: Phenolic

Pin: 3/8-10 mod, stainless steel

Glue Date: 3/9/26

$1,750.00

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SKU: 0180 Categories: Hanging Cue Sticks, Ready to Ship

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.

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).

Trusted by Players

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.

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.