I’m working on a full length documentary for the rebuild of Sassy Frassy, my first stick, which I made out of sassafras. This video is a section of that larger video. I didn’t want to ditch the material showing the ferrule, collar and core build, but it would have taken a half hour to let […]
This is the stick that started me on the path to cue building. One thing I’ve learned and probably most cue builders would agree, it’s a path, not a destination. We’re always growing. Moving forward through new terrain. Developing and discarding processes. I knew when I built Ole Sassy Frassy that it would warp. The […]
This video shows Stick 24, Miss Sarah Phim, a stick made of spalted, (rotten) beech. The grain patterns are from the natural figuring in the wood as well as lines left by various strains of fungus, as they consumed the nutrients within. “Stabilization” uses resin to replace what decay removed from the wood, leaving it […]
I sledgehammer a block of treated wood, perform last rites for a mouse, burn my oven, and make pool sticks so pretty you’ll watch like the screen is dripping eyeball crack.
It took four months to get my cue building machines. Then four more months to arrive at this place, after acquiring my main cue building machinery… I saw all this 8 months ago…. I’m finally organized. I have a spreadsheet. A word doc with instructions for my way of stick building, so I do each […]
I had a vision of a different way to do my epic stick-build video (that I’m planning). My plan was to learn how to build (with high-quality craftsmanship) artistically unique spalted/stabilized wood pool cues, then once I had the process and the shop capable of doing the work at the level I wanted, create a […]
Pale Horse is Stick 23. The first video is a look at the stick on the Taper Shaper after 4 passes. The second video looks at what I can only describe as spooky shit. I called the stick Pale Horse without knowing what patterns the wood would reveal, and the patterns will change before it’s […]
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
