is the grain very important to a ash wood cue?

[pigbrain]

the grains of the wood are like people's face. some are beautiful, some are ugly. after being cut the wood's year rings may make many different shapes. on the cue, the grain with a shape of ">" I call it an arrowhead. what is the actual term of it?

i think the most beatiful grains are:
3~5 arrowheads pointing the tip on the up side. some arrowheads pointing the tip on the down side. and the grains are parallel and the distances are average.
do beautiful grains mean the cue is better?

 

[MVPCues]

I have never heard of a name for it. It is just the result of tapering a straight grained wood with a decent ring count with no run off to the grain. It is a quick way to evaluate the quality of the straightness of grain. I think sometimes it does like nice, as in the example pictured.

Kelly