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      Stick 97: Blue LagoonStick 97: Blue Lagoon
      Stick 97: Blue Lagoon

      Stick 97: Blue Lagoon

      $1,200.00
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      Stick 94: SpitfireStick 94: Spitfire
      Stick 94: Spitfire

      Stick 94: Spitfire

      Price range: $699.00 through $899.00
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      Stick 93: SwordsmanStick 93: Swordsman
      Stick 93: Swordsman

      Stick 93: Swordsman

      Spalted/Stabilized Apple and Tiger Maple BUTT with JOINT PROTECTOR: $775

      CF shaft $450 (13mm)

      Up to 6” Extension – $250

      Shaft joint protector – gifted ($75)

      Total $1,475

       

       

      • Equipped with a bumper that accepts extension with a 3/8-16 pin. 
      • Extensions and shafts can be added to the order, purchased later, or not at all. Prices below.

       

      What’s going to make this butt special to someone, first, is its size.

      It’s 1 3/16″ longer than a “normal” 29″, with an equal length shaft your cue will be 2 3/8″ longer, or 60 3/8.” It’s also a bit on the heavy side, at 16.8 oz. With a carbon fiber or birch shaft, it’s a 19-20 ounce cue. With purple heart, 21. With added weight, 23.

      What’s special about the build? The applewood has a nice curl and my friend Alpaca Luke burned the whole 10 foot log for a few sessions as the border of his campfire before I rescued it. I dried and stabilized it and added blue dye to the resin. Now its good as new and denser than wood. (Part of what gives Character Cues their distinctly solid hits.)

      The parts of the apple forearm and joint protector that were exposed to fire are black. I love how the blue and black work together, on an otherwise fairly light colored forearm.

      The handle section is tiger maple, also spalted and stabilized. I love how the heart shaped knot in the center of the handle goes all the way through.

       

      Woods Used: Apple forearm, tiger maple handle, beech green rings. All spalted and stabilized.

      Butt Length: 30 3/16″ including bumper

      Butt Weight: 16.8 oz.

      Core: hickory

      Glue Date: 6/24

      Pin: 3/8-10 brass

      Collar: .85″ brown phenolic

      Butt: 1.25″

       

      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.

       

      $1,475.00
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      Stick 95: Good Old DaysStick 95: Good Old Days
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      Stick 95: Good Old Days

      Stick 95: Good Old Days

      AUCTION IS FOR Spalted/Stabilized Black Cherry Red Rot and Beech BUTT with JOINT PROTECTOR

      • List $775
      • Equipped with a bumper that accepts extension with a 3/8-16 pin. 
      • Extensions and shafts can be added to the order, purchased later, or not at all. Prices below.

       

      I love the simplicity of butt. The beech forearm and butt sleeve were barely spalted beech. Thus when I stabilized the wood, only the punky stuff accepted resin, and the faint green dye I added. So you get the gorgeous gold of beech with all the tiny flecking in place, along with some of the more interesting contrasts created with the green dye. Simple and elegant, along with the rings.
      But for raw eye grabbing beauty, the black cherry red rot handle and rings carry the burden. Black cherry red rot forms in the centers of most mature black cherry trees in my area. I don’t know if that happens elsewhere. Regardless, the rot deepens the color of the red into a red brown, and the most decayed sections end up looking burnt red brown. I added green mica to the CA glue I used to fill the surface gaps in the stabilized wood.
      This is a longer, heavier butt than “normal.” With an equal sized shaft, the cue would be 61 1/4″ instead of standard 58″. You’ll also notice the butt is big in your hand. 1.275″ And a heavy 16.2 oz. Add a weight bolt and a purple heart shaft and you have a break monster. Then add a purple heart break handle and extension and carbon fiber shaft, you have a swiss army cue like none ever created on planet Earth til now.
      One of you Characters deserves Good Old Days. 😉

       

      Woods Used: Black cherry red rot, beech. (All spalted and stabilized)

      Butt Length: 30 5/8″ with bumper

      Butt Weight: 16.2 oz. (drilled and tapped to accept up to another 1.5 oz)

      Core: hard maple

      Glue Date: 6/24

      Pin: 3/8-10 stainless steel

      Collar: .845″ brown phenolic

      Butt Diameter: 1.275″

       

      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

      Like Wood Joint Protector: $75 each

      Like-Build Extensions:

      3 -6″ — $250
      7 – 12″ — $300

       

       

      Current Bid: $425.00
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      Stick 92: RoosterStick 92: Rooster
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      Stick 92: Rooster

      AUCTION FOR BUTT & JOINT PROTECTOR

      This is a special 2-week charitable auction. One of my dearest writing buddies is unable to work due to rheumatoid arthritis and his wife has an advanced cancer that has spread to several organs. They’re having a hard time of it.

      Every penny of the auction (and proceeds from shafts/extensions to complete it) goes to Dubhghlas & Mrs. Kraus.

      Dub Kraus is old school. Won’t ask for help. He’d rather punch you in the nose than accept a dollar he didn’t “earn.” But I’m here to tell him about the economy of love. He’s touched so many of us with his grumbly humor, wit, and grace, he’s due all our hearts can unload on him. His wife especially, as I’m sure he’d be the first to call her his better half. Please help me show him that we all know where he’s coming from, we all respect a man with principles, and we all know that the humblest and strongest among us deserve a lift when they walk through the deepest of valleys.

      If you’re into dark fiction told in a campfire voice, buy and share his WORK 

      If you’d like to donate to the GoFundMe page set up by his editor for his fans, please find it HERE 

      And if you’d like a medium-firm hitting butt that’ll steal every eyeball in the pool hall, bid on ROOSTER like you intend to win.

      Thank you, my friends. I am grateful for you. God love you.

      Clayton

       

       

       

      Canarywood and Spalted/Stabilized Maple Burl BUTT with JOINT PROTECTOR: (List $875)

      • Equipped with a bumper that accepts extension with a 3/8-16 pin. 
      • Extensions and shafts can be added to the order, purchased later, or not at all. Prices below.

       

      Woods Used: Canarywood, maple burl (red), maple (yellow rings), black cherry red rot (reddish/brown rings)

      Butt Length: 30 3/16″ with bumper

      Glue Date: 6/24

      Handle/Butt Sleeve Core: Canarywood

      Collar diameter: .84″ Tomahawk material (primo stuff)

      Butt Diameter: 1.249″

      Butt Weight: 14.3 oz (drilled and tapped to add up to 1.5 weight bolts)

      Pin: 3/8-10 pin brass

       

      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.

       

      Current Bid: $575.00
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      Stick 91: Cowboy SkyStick 91: Cowboy Sky
      Stick 91: Cowboy Sky

      Stick 91: Cowboy Sky

      Price range: $899.00 through $1,099.00
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      Stick 90: RibbedStick 90: Ribbed
      Stick 90: Ribbed

      Stick 90: Ribbed

      Spalted/Stabilized Curly Maple and Black Cherry Red Rot BUTT with JOINT PROTECTOR: $775

       

      Woods Used: Black cherry red rot, maple, beech (green rings). (All spalted and stabilized)

      Butt Length: 29 7/16″

      Butt Weight: 14 oz. drilled and tapped to add up to another 1.5 oz. 

      Glue Date: 5/24

      Full Core: hard maple

      Pin: Radial brass

      Collar: .85″ black phenolic

      Butt Diameter: 1.254″

       

      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.

       

      $775.00
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      Stick 89: BikiniStick 89: Bikini
      Stick 89: Bikini

      Stick 89: Bikini

      Spalted/Stabilized Apple and Beech BUTT with JOINT PROTECTOR: $775

      Get matching Shaft Joint Protector ($75) free with purchase of butt

       

       

      Woods Used: Spalted/Stabilized Maple burl, maple

      Core: Hickory

      Butt Length: 29 5/16″

      Butt Weight: 15 oz. (drilled and tapped to add up to 1.5 oz. Just ask)

      Pin: 3/8-10 mod, stainless

      Collar: Tomahawk

      Collar Diameter: .845″

      Butt Widest: 1.256″

       

      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: $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
      Original price was: $850.00.Current price is: $700.00.
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      Stick 88: TrunksStick 88: Trunks
      Stick 88: Trunks

      Stick 88: Trunks

      Spalted/Stabilized Maple/Maple Burl BUTT with JOINT PROTECTOR: $775

      NOW GET SHAFT JOINT PROTECTOR FREE whether you buy a shaft or not. Save $75, as I appreciate you.

      And don’t miss the free shipping code at the top of the checkout page…

       

       

       

       

       

      To be perfectly blunt, this butt hung a long time because I thought it was boring. I kept scratching my head 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 roads or county lines.)

      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 often 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. Ships when the payment clears. Add a shaft, add a week.

      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

       

      Original price was: $850.00.Current price is: $775.00.
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    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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