I am working on possible designs for my next purchase. It will be a custom cue, break cue and jump cue. If have the option to provide my own exotic wood if I want to. I would love to buy some wood that really catches my eye. I wanted to know if anyone could reccomend online sites I could look at.
Excotic Wood?
- Thread starter SharpCat
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CookWoods is a good sight. They have some excellent wood on their site and they also put up some great excellent on e-bay. I'm just waiting for a piece of wood that catches my eye and is big enough for what I need. It's hard to choose with so many beautifull exotic woods out there. Tops on my list are tulipwood, bubinga, canarywood and paduak.
If you're buying the wood, some shops have theirs KD and some are considered wet. Now if you want to turn it into a cue, ask for one that's been seasoned and not newly cut up or just recently been out of the kiln. Otherwise you have to wait a long time... a loooong time.
Your local cuemaker could have seasoned wood that is to your liking
Your local cuemaker could have seasoned wood that is to your liking
paul fanelli
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Sharpcat...Hadj is right. Seasoned wood (years, not months) is the first requirement for a good cue. You are not likely to find such well seasoned wood commercially, after all, the good stuff goes first. Your cuemaker, whoever he is, has a huge head start on you in materials, and he or she has wood ready to be turned into a cue. No doubt there is great wood available, internet and otherwise, but much time will be needed to season it. If your cuemaker can email pictures of cues, you can also see examples of materials available. So unless the tree in your backyard is struck by lightning, and you want a piece of the tree to make a cue called "Wonderboy", trust your cuemaker to have some great wood. You may just recently have become interested in cue woods, but cuemakers are ALWAYS on the lookout for the best they can find.
good luck
paul
good luck
paul
Seeing examples of his material is very easy for me. Every one of his cues in this area is owned by someone I know. He comes to town once or twice a year to visit. Last time he was here he brought 10 cues with him. A bunch of us met up at the club. We spent about 30 minutes just looking and talking about the cues. I could have talked longer but it was time for the fun to begin. We spent about 5-1/2 hours drinking and shooting pool. He bought 3 rounds of shots for us and there were twenty of us. We have so much fun when he comes to town. Hopefully he will be back to visit. I'm sure all the cuemakers on this board are great guys to hang out with. You do fantastic work guys!
http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/
Best site i've found. Huge variety of wood to look at and wish i had
Best site i've found. Huge variety of wood to look at and wish i had