Help me ID this Titlists Wood

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Going to list this Titlist Conversion, but I need to ID the Wood, as I think it is not Rosewood. Wedgewood?? Best GUESS?
 

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The pic of the two pieces looks very Rosewoody to me. Why do you think it is not Rosewood?

Dale(who has seen more than a bit of Dalbergia)
 
Partridge or possibly kempas. Both very similar, very common, but from different continents. Those old cues had wood from all over, so there's no way to really know exactly what it is. Partridge includes a dozen or more similar woods from south America, where kempas is from all over SE Asia. I'm fairly certain it's one of those two, but I wouldn't be able to say which, and definitely couldn't identify it specifically. Partridge is often called pau-rosa, too, which means nothing because that's a common name for pretty much anything hard & brown. Those woods have been used in cues as long as cues have existed, though. I recall seeing it in the latest Valley Supreme cues before they went overseas, and often see it in older Valley house cues.
 
What is wedge wood? Google? Yes, it looks just like pottery. (I crack me up.)
 
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Mongolian or Tibetian Cherry.
Could be Siberian too.
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qbilder said:
Partridge or possibly kempas. Both very similar, very common, but from different continents. Those old cues had wood from all over, so there's no way to really know exactly what it is. Partridge includes a dozen or more similar woods from south America, where kempas is from all over SE Asia. I'm fairly certain it's one of those two, but I wouldn't be able to say which, and definitely couldn't identify it specifically. Partridge is often called pau-rosa, too, which means nothing because that's a common name for pretty much anything hard & brown. Those woods have been used in cues as long as cues have existed, though. I recall seeing it in the latest Valley Supreme cues before they went overseas, and often see it in older Valley house cues.
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Some good points here. A large part of the problem is there are about
a gazillion different wood species in the Amazon Rain Forest that vary
in color from light reddish to brownish to blackish That resemble
Rosewood(Dalbergia sp.)

Many of them are traded commerically as Rosewood substitute,
or Ebony substitute with names that are similar and even contradictory
in different regions.

Some of them are great cue woods, others... not so much.

Throw in the rest of the world's Rain Forrests, and you get 2 gazillion.

Dale
 
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