one piece butt for cue?

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I got a piece of cocobolo that's 30 inches long and I was going to cut it to 24 inches and make a sneaky blank out of it. Its a beautiful piece of wood and I hate the idea of cutting it up. I was thinking of making it a one piece butt and letting the wood stay as it is. Any pros or cons to this? I thought about coring it, but I'm not sure about that either.

Joe
 
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Not a problem; I love to make 'em. They look great...great way to show off fancy wood. Adjust weight and balance with the core and the pin weight. Add ballast as necessary. I make a pretty skinny cue ~ .842/1.20, and it works fine for me. Want to get fancy? Cut into 3 pieces, butt sleeve, handle and forearm and add rings in between, as well as front and back on your core dowel. Naturally, align the fancy grain on your coco. The hit doesn't change: the butt thinks it's still one piece.

Robin
 
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carguy said:
Not a problem; I love to make 'em. They look great...great way to show off fancy wood. Adjust weight and balance with the core and the pin weight. Add ballast as necessary. I make a pretty skinny cue ~ .842/1.20, and it works fine for me. Want to get fancy? Cut into 3 pieces, butt sleeve, handle and forearm and add rings in between, as well as front and back on your core dowel. Naturally, align the fancy grain on your coco. The hit doesn't change: the butt thinks it's still one piece.

Robin
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I like the idea of segmenting the handle area.....ALOT. I think .125 black-.030 nick/silver-.125 black would look nice!
 
One cue I made was 30" one piece black ebony butt with a heavy .750" maple lakewood core, .600" ivory joint, .600 butt cap, 4 oz shaft, Ti Uniloc Radial joint screw, and it still needed a touch of weight in the rear to give me 18.8 oz with a 19" balance point.

The point is, don't sweat the weight too much. Even heavy woods work just fine. Unless you make much fatter cues than I do it won't end up too heavy if you use an appropriate core.

Robin
 
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