Heavy and Cheap

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Question:

What is the heaviest/cheapest wood avalible that would be good for cue making. Probly use for handle wood and cover with a wrap.

NOT looking for answers like core w/ a heavy wood, or blah blah.

Just what is the heaviest /cheap wood you know of.

For me the answer so far is taking the cocobolo that is not very thrilling or just plain horrible, and using that. What's your answer?


Thanks
 
Purpleheart. It is dense,gives the cue a great tone and hit, and is very cost effective. Takes a wrap very well also. Drills and taps probly the best of all woods. Overall , I say Purpleheart.
 
J&D CUSTOMS said:
Purpleheart. It is dense,gives the cue a great tone and hit, and is very cost effective. Takes a wrap very well also. Drills and taps probly the best of all woods. Overall , I say Purpleheart.
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I like to use purpleheart, but not as heavy as I'm looking for. But thanks, your choice is probly the best as far as solid wood, with great hit, and price is very cheap.

THanks Jim.
 
J&D CUSTOMS said:
Purpleheart. It is dense,gives the cue a great tone and hit, and is very cost effective. Takes a wrap very well also. Drills and taps probly the best of all woods. Overall , I say Purpleheart.
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I find purpleheart to be crumbly when tapping.
Bocote cuts much nicer to me, and a little heavier too.
Ipe is harder and heavier but I don't use em.
 
i would use rosewood or cocobolo.


9$ for1.5x1.5x13 for a handle isnt that bad

http://www.bellforestproducts.com/exotic-wood/cocobolo/

im guessing you have an order for a 23 oz cue or something

i tapped some bacote for some cue hangers and when i tapped it i thought it was a little crummy myself. didnt hold threads well at all. i have no problems tapping any other woods.

as i was cutting it up all i could think about was how much joey likes bacote and how i wasnt inpressed at all with it. too light in color for me.

sry pal :grin:
 
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Bar-none best would be jatoba. It's dense, very heavy, very hard, great tone & stable as can be. It's ugly as sin so you'd want to wrap it, but as a wrapped handle it is wonderful stuff. Joey's answer of Ipe is a good one, too, a little lighter in weight but just as hard. If you need a piece of Jatoba, let me know & i'll send one to you. I bought a 12'x8/4 board early spring & cut it up. It's rediculously hard & heavy squares.
 
Check out Jarrah wood as well very dense, Stiff wood...Fairly heavy....Dave
 
i like Ipe the best.it's like Ebony with better tone and extremely dense.


i agree with Dave.i don't trust Bocote,but Cocobolo would be nice.
 
Thanks Guys, Great answers.

Eric, I have Jatoba, that's the reason I bought it, just wanted to throw this out there to see others opinions and insight.

Dave, I don't have an order for it, just curious, I don't ask many questions one the forum, and I thought this would be a great question. I do use my reject cocobolo for wrap areas. Just made 5-8 B/j's doing this exept I left a few unwraped. I've had problems making our standard B/js heavy so that was my solution.

thanks
 
qbilder said:
Bar-none best would be jatoba. It's dense, very heavy, very hard, great tone & stable as can be. It's ugly as sin so you'd want to wrap it, but as a wrapped handle it is wonderful stuff. Joey's answer of Ipe is a good one, too, a little lighter in weight but just as hard. If you need a piece of Jatoba, let me know & i'll send one to you. I bought a 12'x8/4 board early spring & cut it up. It's rediculously hard & heavy squares.
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I agree, I just bought some jatoba from Bell, on Ebay, very cheap, and VERY heavy. Cuts nice though.
Dave
 
Yeah, it is very cheap. Good stuff for handles, though. I got some that's nicely curled & even with the nice figure it's still ugly.
 
I'll vote for Jatoba......

qbilder said:
Yeah, it is very cheap. Good stuff for handles, though. I got some that's nicely curled & even with the nice figure it's still ugly.
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I agree it's great for handles...even wrapless and I don't think it's that ugly:p

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Bill the Cat said:
I agree it's great for handles...even wrapless and I don't think it's that ugly:p
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If you like the looks of Jatoba, then you'd love the curly stuff I have. I couldn't pass up on the board when I saw it. It was a beautiful board. But once cut into squares it was less impressive. I cut a few long squares to use as one piece butts. In the long wood the figure shows up nice.

I'm a huge fan of bubinga, too. But it's so unpredictable in terms of weight. I have some that's light as maple & some heavy as ebony.
 
Bill the Cat said:
I agree it's great for handles...even wrapless and I don't think it's that ugly:p

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Thanks for the pic Bill, I'm considering using some exactly the same way. It's nice to see in advance how it will look.... Nice cue.
I will agree with Eric, the stuff I have is pretty much plain, no real figure to it, but it is a nice orangy, brown color.
 
When I read the title I thought this was gonna be a thread about my x wife.
lol lol

highrun55
 
Thanks!

Dave38 said:
Thanks for the pic Bill, I'm considering using some exactly the same way. It's nice to see in advance how it will look.... Nice cue.
I will agree with Eric, the stuff I have is pretty much plain, no real figure to it, but it is a nice orangy, brown color.
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Thanks Dave! I had originally intended this one to be wrapped, but decided that it looked pretty nice just the way it was. No intense figure, but nice color and dark grain lines. I (personally) like the simple clean look.
 
anybody ever try quilla? its from australia. very hard and very heavy. ive had some for a few years and have made a few handles, but just havent used them as of yet. feels like ebony, looks like mahogany!! lol im going to try a new break cue out of one here soon.
 
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