Spalted/Stabilized Maple with Black Cherry Burl BUTT with JOINT PROTECTOR: $1075

I’ve come to think of black cherry burl as the jewel of the forest. I prize it especially for the richness of the colors, sharp contrasts and variety of wild grain patterns. Everything from dotted lines to amoeba shapes in ruby, black, brown, and white. Of course with burl, extraordinary colors and patterns aren’t the whole show. You also get that classic chatoyance — the shimmering illusion of depth created by light reflecting in different directions throughout the wavy grain.

The spalted/stabilized maple forearm is a showcase of black fungal squiggles and gentle shading that relieves the eye, so the gestalt of the cue is something akin to ordered yet frenetic beauty.

A cue that won’t let hold of the eye.

Clayton Recommends: Pair with a carbon fiber or birch shaft (of course with a black cherry burl ring) for exceptional control and balance. And get a matching burl joint protector as my gift to you. Butt can be modified at no cost to accept an extension if the extension is added to the order.

Woods Used: Black cherry burl, maple

Full Core: hickory

Butt Length: 29 9/16″ including bumper

Butt Weight: 13.7 oz. (drilled and tapped to add up to 1.5 additional ounces. Shafts are usually 3 – 5.5 oz depending on species.)

Pin: 3/8-10 brass

Collar: .835″ black phenolic

Butt Diameter: 1.22″

A word about shafts:

I build shafts out of ten species and carbon fiber. My advice is this: if you have a shaft you love to use, buy this butt to match that shaft. If you’ve heard of a famous shaft that you’d like to try, buy that shaft to match this butt.

However, if you’re into the art of it and want to have fun, try something new, and make your Character Cue fully badass, consider one of my ten species or carbon fiber with a like-wood decorative ring.

Read about the different species here: https://charactercues.com/comparing-10-shaft-wood-species/

Shafts: (with decorative like-wood ring)

• Carbon Fiber — $450
• Purple Heart — $400
• Maple — $350
• Birch — $350
• White Oak — $350
• Cherry — $350
• Walnut — $350
• Sassafras — $350
• Ash — $350
• Hickory — $350
• Black Locust — $350

Like Wood Joint Protector: $75 each

Like-Build Extensions:

3 -6″ — $250
7 – 12″ — $300

To add a shaft, joint protector or extension, please email me at Clayton@CharacterCues.com.

I’ll set this page up to reflect the cue as you want to purchase it, and password protect it for you until you do so.