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Stick 183: Big Love

Stick 183: Big Love
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Stick 183: Big Love

Butt & Joint Protector: $775

Spalted/Stabilized walnut and hard maple on full length beech core with copper rings. Spalted wood that is stabilized with Cactus Juice resin often has a density approaching purple heart. Walnut is usually considered to soft/light for cue building, which is why it is seldom seen. However, this is spalted/stabilized walnut, which picks up density in the process.

Constructed with a full length single piece Beech core, expect a medium hit. If you’re familiar with the signature Character Cues hit, which might be called on the stern side of firm, this will be on the friendly side of firm. And who doesn’t want a friend?

The name?

While in the build I discovered the live accoustic version of Big Love, and as is my custom, I played it on loop for days. I still can’t comprehend talent on that level, Lindsey Buckinham, the whole deal from frantic finger picking to swooping, crashing waves of sound, his voice — how many times has my soul, and yours, cried like that? So powerful. Lean back. Turn it up.

Then come back and buy Big Love! 🙂

 

 

 

Pair with a Black BurcHowdy torrefied Black Birch low deflection shaft — or the BurcHowdy FW to forward weight your cue — for the ultimate Character Cues statement shooter. The secret is getting out. Secure yours now!

 

Monthly payments. No interest. No automatic bank draft.

 

 

Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized Walnut, Hard Maple

Butt Length: 30 1/8″ without bumper

Core: Beech

Collars: Phenolic

Probable full cue natural weight: 18-20 oz.

Pin: 3/8-10 mod; radial

Glue Date: 4/16/26

Earliest Finish Date: 11/26

 

 

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. 🙂

Low Deflection Shafts:

  • Carbon Fiber: $450
  • Black BurcHowdy (torrefied low deflection black birch shaft): $550

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

 

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Description

 

 

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

My new weapon arrived safe and sound! It looks so much better in person!

It’s truly a work of art!

Man, this masterpiece hits AWESOME! I freaking love it!!!

My friends already hitting up your website. They want one!
–Gerard Cooper; Politics for $1,000

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.

A look at stickbuilding

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.

Stick Review

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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