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  • Stick 190: John Galt

    Stick 190: John Galt

    Butt & Joint Protector: $1,125

    Spalted/Stabilized black cherry burl forearm and butt sleeve with a truly special spalted/stabilized curly maple handle. Full length 3/4″ purple heart core. That means the best hit on planet earth.

    But what makes the handle special? And why that provocative name?

    The handle has a phoenix image in the spalt. Wings on left and right. Weird head.

    And the burl is out of this world, loads of black fill for that underneath-the-polish-there’s-a-lot-you-don’t-know-about-me kind of vibe.

    I can’t plan images in the wood. Can’t even guess which wood might produce. But every now and then something remarkable shows up and stirs the mind.  That’s John Galt.


    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 Hard Maple, Black Cherry burl

    Butt Length: 30″ without bumper

    Core: Purple Heart

    Collars: Phenolic

    Probable full cue natural weight: 18-20 oz.

    Pin: 3/8-10 mod; radial

    Glue Date: 4/20/26

    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

     

     

     

     

    $1,125.00
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  • Stick 191: Red

    Stick 191: Red

    Butt & Joint Protector: $875

    Insurance claim for lost cue Blessed are the Humble: $700

    Remainder: $175

    Spalted/Stabilized maple and black cherry burl rings sandwiched between brass rings.

    Red features breathtaking grain, some burl, all of it black line spalted, much of it with compression. All on a 8.6 oz purple heart core. Expect ridiculous power transfer and commitment with each hit.


    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 Hard Maple, Black Cherry burl

    Butt Length: 30″ without bumper

    Core: Purple Heart

    Collars: Phenolic

    Probable full cue natural weight: 18-20 oz.

    Pin: 3/8-10 mod; radial

    Glue Date: 4/20/26

    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

     

     

     

     

    $175.00
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  • Stick 189: Rhapsody

    Stick 189: Rhapsody

    (extra long) Butt & Joint Protector: $775

    Spalted/Stabilized birch and maple (handle) on a shagbark hickory core.

    I stabilized the forearm and butt sleeve last year and they rested on a shelf without a handle between them since then. Every now and then, I’d look at all the builds, one per shelf, and swap handles to see if something might come alive with the colors. Then I’d put them all back and go to the other side of the shop where I have a couple few hundred pieces of stabilized wood, all the colors and species I have on hand, and see if I could find anything that complemented the sleeve and forearm.

    Then one day everything falls in place. A color that makes the soul go Mmmmmmmmm?  A grain/spalt pattern that complements the other patterns instead of confusing them. The heart pounds. Joy, right under the surface, starts percolating into words and action. The frantic hunt to find the perfect rings is on. The only way to stay true blue and create the sort of POP rings need to create is…

    Electric Blue! That’ll work! My joy is complete!

    Peace. Rest. Love. All is sublime.

    I make the square block of electric blue Ash round. I core it. Measure and cut rings, dry fit… The hour is late. Wife’s in bed.

    “I don’t care. Rhapsody glues tonight.”

     


    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 Hard Maple, Yellow Birch

    Butt Length: 31″ without bumper, this is 2″ longer than a standard 29″ butt. Entire cue would be 62″ instead of the standard 58″.

    Core: Hickory

    Collars: Phenolic

    Probable full cue natural weight: 18-20 oz.

    Pin: 3/8-10 mod; radial

    Glue Date: 4/20/26

    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

     

    $775.00
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  • Stick 188: Headless

    Stick 188: Headless

    Butt & Joint Protector: $875

    BurcHowdy Shaft: $375

    BurcHowdy Joint Protector: $75, gifted

    Total: $1,250

    Spalted/Stabilized maple and black cherry burl on a shagbark hickory core. I made the forearm and butt sleeve from a single piece of spalted maple, chosen for it wild differences in color. Wood rots like an army advances. Sometimes fast here and slow there. Terrain matters. Headless shows the battlefield as the general sees it — except I arrested the war right in the middle, dried that wood to zero humidity, submerged under vacuum in Cactus Juice resin, then soaked in resin, then cooked til hard. The battle lines are frozen. This rotting piece of wood has a different fate. In death, life.

    The name?

    There’s a headless dude in the cue. Is all.

    There are a lot of surface pocks that will be fill opportunities, possibly using electric blue mica to match the rings. Could also use ebony sawdust.


    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 Hard Maple, Black Cherry burl

    Butt Length: 30″ without bumper

    Core: Hickory

    Collars: Phenolic

    Probable full cue natural weight: 18-20 oz.

    Pin: 3/8-10 mod; radial

    Glue Date: 4/20/26

    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

     

     

     

     

    $1,250.00
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  • Stick 183: Big Love

    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

     

    $775.00
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  • Stick 184: Tricky Little Something

    Stick 184: Tricky Little Something

    Butt & Joint Protector: $775

    Spalted/Stabilized 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. Constructed with a full length single piece Beech core, expect a medium firm hit that puts you in the feedback sweet spot — just enough to feel your game.

    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 Hard Maple, Copper rings

    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: 4/17/26

    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

     

    $775.00
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  • Stick 185: Wormwood

    Stick 185: Wormwood

    Butt & Joint Protector: $875

    Spalted/Stabilized Ironwood (American Hornbeam) is dense to begin with. Stabilized, it’s quite hard.

    The handle section is Black Birch burl from my local Amish friends. Black Birch is a little harder than hard maple, while burl is more dense than non-burl.

    Wormwood is constructed with a Beech full-length core; expect a medium-firm hit.

    The Name? The Ironwood has wormholes and there are seven rings. Wormwood in Revelation is in the Third Trumpet (of 7); the Trumpets are part of the 7th Seal. Wormwood blazes through the sky and poisons a third of the water on the planet. Praying I’ll be at the wedding instead.

     

    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 Ironwood (American Hornbeam), Black Birch Burl (handle), Copper rings.

    Butt Length: 30″ without bumper

    Core: Beech

    Collars: Phenolic

    Probable full cue natural weight: 18-20 oz.

    Pin: 3/8-10 mod; Radial

    Glue Date: 4/18/26

    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

     

    $875.00
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  • Stick 186: Fried, Not Stirred

    Stick 186: Fried, Not Stirred

    Butt & Joint Protector: $825

    Spalted/Stabilized Ironwood (American Hornbeam) is dense to begin with. Stabilized, it’s quite hard. Fried, Not Stirred is constructed with a hard maple full-length core; expect a firm but not overbearing hit.

    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 Ironwood (American Hornbeam), Maple (handle), Slot rings Beech and Walnut.

    Butt Length: 29 3/8″ without bumper

    Core: Hard maple

    Collars: Phenolic

    Probable full cue natural weight: 18-20 oz.

    Pin: 3/8-10 mod; Radial

    Glue Date: 4/18/26

    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

     

    $825.00
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