Description

READY: This cue COMES WITH ONE SHAFT and JOINT PROTECTOR.

Please watch the video above. The shaft is not done. After you win the auction (or purchase with the Buy Now button), just let me know which species you prefer and I’ll tailor your shaft to your specs: collar color & decoration, length, tip diameter, and tip. Give me a few days and I’ll have your cue in a FedEx truck on its way to you.

Choose your shaft species from Maple, Birch, Ash, White Oak, Sassafras, Hickory, Black Locust, Purple Heart, Cherry, or Walnut.

Add a second shaft for $200.

Woods Used: Black cherry, beech (green rings), maple (red rings)

Core: Maple into Hickory

Hang Time: 9 months

Shaft Wood Available: Maple, Birch, Ash, White Oak, Sassafras, Hickory, Black Locust, Purple Heart, Cherry, Walnut

Tips Available:

• Blue Knight — soft (hardness rating 61)
• Elkmaster — medium (hardness rating 66)
• Royal Oak — medium (hardness rating 66)
• Le Pro — medium hard (hardness rating 78)
• Triangle — hard (hardness rating 91)

Pin: Radial

Collars: Black phenolic

Butt Length:  30 5/16″ — (making about 60.5″ cue)

Collar diameter: .85″

Butt diameter: 1.23″

Butt Weight: 15.1 oz. (Maple and similar density shafts are about 3-3.5 oz. Hickory and Purple Heart, 3.5 and higher. Cue is also drilled and tapped to add up to 1 oz. weight bolt, if requested.

Howdy!

Thank you for checking out my work.

I’m entering my third season as a cue builder…. so how do you know you aren’t buying junk?

1. My name, integrity, and reputation as a blunt-truth grit lit author are all I have. I put them behind my cues by offering a lifetime warranty and a 14 day return/refund policy.
2. I show how I build cues on YouTube.
3. The shooters buying my sticks love them and say so.
4. I’m happily available to field your questions. Email me at clayton at charactercues.com for a time to talk.

The cue building process is a little different for me than most builders, since it begins when I find a piece of wood, usually in decay, that I can restore. More than a year often passes between processing a log and shining the cue I made from it.

I dry the wood to 0% humidity, stabilize with Cactus Juice resin, cook in an oven, then allow the blanks to rest.

I core all of my cues except my hickory break sticks — meaning I turn a dowel out of birch, hard maple, or hickory to be the cue’s skeleton. Cores help prevent warping and improve strength.

Each of my cues hangs in the shop a minimum of six months, being turned down to final size a few hundredths at a time. This is also to prevent warping.

I finish cues with CA, a super clear, hard and durable finish.

The bottom line, I’m a 100% person, and this cue received my 100% and then some.