Is it difficult to make a cue using only wood for weight and balance?
Wood only.
- Thread starter YubaCushion
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Depends on the weight and balance desired .
20.2/3/4 oz. The forearm or the handle has the tennon..
18/19 balance.
You're looking at 16+ oz butt . Even with a 1.5oz joint screw, tough to do without any weight add-on unless the woods are really heavy.
And that would include a non-maple handle.
Why are you worried about the added weight ?
An ebony butt is 20oz by itself, I have some exceptional long pieces if you need one
JC
Coos Cues
There are plenty of nice woods heavy enough to accomplish what you desire coupled with a solid heavy shaft.
Here is one I"m finishing up with ebony and stabilized spalted tamarind that is full cored with maple. It weighs in at 19.6 without the finish on yet. Front weighted with a balance point at 19.5 inches. It could easily have been made heavier with a heavier core wood. I used maple to hold the weight down. The only metal is the stainless pin.
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JC
Here is one I"m finishing up with ebony and stabilized spalted tamarind that is full cored with maple. It weighs in at 19.6 without the finish on yet. Front weighted with a balance point at 19.5 inches. It could easily have been made heavier with a heavier core wood. I used maple to hold the weight down. The only metal is the stainless pin.
JC
Don't forget about taper, having a fat bottom cue certainly helps add some weight.
Solid black gaboon or macassar?
Sure you can make a cue with only wood (some sort of metal or G10 joint pin I guess?)
a 20oz butt kinda limits your wood choices somewhat, but Ebony is far from the only dense wood you can use. Katalox, purpleheart, desert ironwood, quite a few of the Dalbergia species, snakewood and massaranduba to name a few.
The dimensions plays a big part, obviously a 30" butt will be heavier than a 29" butt given the same dimensions.
If you want to use a lighter wood, I guess you could core with a heavy wood like ebony or katalox.
If I took on a project like that I would have to weigh the actual pieces and try to find the ones that would work best with your weight, dimension and balance point.
a 20oz butt kinda limits your wood choices somewhat, but Ebony is far from the only dense wood you can use. Katalox, purpleheart, desert ironwood, quite a few of the Dalbergia species, snakewood and massaranduba to name a few.
The dimensions plays a big part, obviously a 30" butt will be heavier than a 29" butt given the same dimensions.
If you want to use a lighter wood, I guess you could core with a heavy wood like ebony or katalox.
If I took on a project like that I would have to weigh the actual pieces and try to find the ones that would work best with your weight, dimension and balance point.
It is not that difficult to build a cue with a weight you mentioned using only woods and a pin. As it was mentioned above there are plenty of woods much heavier and denser than ebony. I've built my full spliced butt using two hard woods ABW and Pau Rosa and in length 31" I've got the weight approximately 18 oz so I had to drill out some wood to get it under 17 oz. Besides of ABW which is so far the heaviest wood I have (1340 kg/m3 +/-) there are three more species above 1200 kg/m3 in my collection: Pau Santo one of the stiffest woods and it is very rare, Leadwood, Mopane.
The trick is to know which wood to have for a particular part of the cue in order to get the desired balance and hit. That is the real artistry.
The trick is to know which wood to have for a particular part of the cue in order to get the desired balance and hit. That is the real artistry.
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