Spalted/Stabilized Maple/Maple Burl BUTT with JOINT PROTECTOR: $775
To be perfectly honest, this butt hung a long time because I thought it was boring. I kept scratching my head (polite way of saying I was calling myself a dipshit) as to why I chose such a blank piece of maple for the forearm.
Well sometimes a man finds evidence someone’s looking out for him. What a butt! I finished this one yesterday and it’s just silly how gorgeous it is. That long blank maple forearm has a flaming fungal poop line at the base, all the way around. (I’m pretty sure those black squiggles from the fungi are poop, not road lines or somesuch.)
If you’re new to Character Cues, I grab dead rotten trees from the woods, cut them open and when I find cool patterns, I dry the wood to zero percent humidity, stabilize it in Cactus Juice resin, and the resulting wood/material is nearly as dense as purple heart. That’s the secret to Character Cues. Shush don’t tell. The stabilized material is nearly impossible to warp without applying heat or moisture. Strong and dense and beautiful.
The handle is also maple, though from a different tree, not at my place but Alpaca Luke’s. I don’t know whether it’s burl or just highly figured, as the log was so rotten I couldn’t tell if what I cut off was the nub of a branch or a burl the size of an end table. The grain is just bananas. Bonkers. Depthful. And the pattern with the white mica brings to mind a young man walking a dark trail and bringing his own light.
Butt is available to buy from this page. Just add to cart and checkout. If you’d like to add a shaft, email me at clayton@charactercues.com and let me know what’s on your mind. I’ll password protect the page for you and add whatever you want to the listing.
This butt has a full hickory core. Hickory is denser and stronger than hard maple. Skilled players will feel a difference. Add a BurcHowdy for the ultimate low deflection experience.
Woods Used: figured spalted maple/burl, maple,
Butt Length: 29 3/4″
Butt Weight: 15 oz. (drilled and tapped to add up to 1.5 oz)
Full Core: hickory
Pin: 3/8-10 modified, stainless steel
Collar: .845″
Butt Widest: 1.249″
Collar Material: Black Phenolic
PS… Want to add the best wood shaft on the planet to your order? I’m on a quest to build the best low deflection wood shaft on planet earth. Check out my reasoning and progress here… and maybe grab one of the first 30 along with a prototype shaft for testing and feedback: https://charactercues.com/product/black-burchowdy/
CAFETERIA STYLE: email me at Clayton@charactercues.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: $400
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
