Forearm wood weight.

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ggadam29

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I was wondering if the wood weight alone is close to the finishing weight of the forearm, or if you always have to add weight to a typical cue you make?

I'm asking because I have some osage orange wood around the house that I thought about playing around with and trying to make a cue forearm out of. It is a pretty dense wood though, and I'm worried it is going to be an extremely heavy cue.
 
All the OO I have worked with moves like Jagger, better put a core in that forearm.
 
According to the Wood Database, http://www.wood-database.com/
Osage Orange has an average density of 54 lbs/cu. ft.
Hard Maple: 44 lbs/cu. ft.
Gabon (Gaboon) Ebony: 60 lbs/cu.ft.
Brazillian Rosewood: 52 lbs/cu.ft.
Cocobolo: 69 lbs/cu. ft.
Bacote: 53 lbs/cu. ft.

So you can see that, on average, Osage Orange is in the middle of common woods used for cue making. So IMHO, some weight will need to be added to your forearm.
My 2 cents,
Gary
 
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