Light Weight Woods?

beav99_4life

beav99_4life

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I am getting close to having my custom cue set made and need some info. I play with a very light cue, around a 16.8. I was wondering what are the lightest weight woods that are acceptable for cues and that will not lower playability? Thank you for any information you can provide.
 
maple. bacote . pph. if you make a cue with no metal at all you can prob get it in the 17 oz range total.

imo a cue that light will take away from play. your arm has to do alot of work to make up for that weight loss. hard to slow your stroke down a nd be really accurate when you have to swing the 17oz cue that fast to get the cueball spinning
 
You must be a huge elbow-dropper.
Curly maple front with maple handle and aluminum pin should get you 17 oz. or so.
 
all Maple cue should be fine even with brass pin it shouldn't be much over 17oz.

my good buddy Chad plays with a 17-17.5oz cue and there are only a few people in the world that would put their own money up to play him on a bar track.
 
Don't count out Shedua. Figured pieces are beautiful & the stuff is lightweight. It's kind of a bronze color. Then another candidate would be chakte-kok, AKA redheart. It's beautiful blood red with black streaks & weighs about par with maple, maybe a slight bit lighter. There are several good lightweight woods that are strong & look nice.
 
qbilder said:
Don't count out Shedua. Figured pieces are beautiful & the stuff is lightweight. It's kind of a bronze color. Then another candidate would be chakte-kok, AKA redheart. It's beautiful blood red with black streaks & weighs about par with maple, maybe a slight bit lighter. There are several good lightweight woods that are strong & look nice.
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Or Padauk.
I made a bocote front with padauk handle once. The reasonance in the handle was incredible.
 
I saw Chad an SVB play to a draw for cash on bartable! Nuff Said....
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was it in Nashville?i was the guy staking Chad.ican't rememer either one missing a ball.

that was back when i had money,before i started building cues.haha.
 
JoeyInCali said:
Or Padauk.
I made a bocote front with padauk handle once. The reasonance in the handle was incredible.
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Yeah, Padauk is a great wood that doesn't get used much.
 
desi2960 said:
a piece of cored curly koa is very lite and beautiful. chuck
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Agreed. Koa is great wood for cues. I don't even core it, unless it's high figure root wood. But the main trunk wood is solid as a rock.
 
scared

the koa i use is always highly figured and i am scared to death that it is going to move if i do not core it. you know i have only been doing this for 8 years i'm still a rookie with a lot to learn. chuck
 
Scared of what? It sounds like you have it figured out. Nothing wrong with coring it if it's a worry for you. Personally, I have found koa to be one of the most stable woods in terms of staying straight. But hardness & stiffness is something to keep an eye out for. I have only been building for around 8 years, too. Koa was one of the first woods I bought in bulk. For the first 5 years I had more koa than maple.
 
Kudo's Dave.

dave sutton said:
maple. bacote . pph. if you make a cue with no metal at all you can prob get it in the 17 oz range total.

imo a cue that light will take away from play. your arm has to do alot of work to make up for that weight loss. hard to slow your stroke down a nd be really accurate when you have to swing the 17oz cue that fast to get the cueball spinning
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I agree completely with Dave. I think you would be wise to focus less on your cue weight, and much more on having a stick with proper balance. Some cues can actually weigh in at 18.0-19.0 oz, but feel much lighter than their actual weight, because of well executed balance point. JMHO. Hope this helps.
 
qbilder said:
Yeah, Padauk is a great wood that doesn't get used much.
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cue for a friend
he also wanted under 17 ounces
but he wants same butt size as his mcdermott which i measured at 1.27"
17 might be iffy at that diameter


padauk handle & curly front
will have curly buttsleeve & buckhorn butt cap with buck joint

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Nice cue, Brent. I love padauk's vibrant color. It looks great with maple and looks great with ebony. I'm working on a padauk & African blackwood cue.

Nice router you have there. They don't make them anymore. The new ones are classic Porter Cables with yellow plastic. I use the same router as you, have 5-6 of them that are quick change with that lever operated mount. I run them off a 90vdc variable speed controller, faster speed & reduced bog. What bit do you have chucked in it? Grizzly I assume, but very small. I use the purple 5/8 straight bits normally, and wing cutters for final cut shafts & high figure woods.
 
qbilder said:
Nice cue, Brent. I love padauk's vibrant color. It looks great with maple and looks great with ebony. I'm working on a padauk & African blackwood cue.

Nice router you have there. They don't make them anymore. The new ones are classic Porter Cables with yellow plastic. I use the same router as you, have 5-6 of them that are quick change with that lever operated mount. I run them off a 90vdc variable speed controller, faster speed & reduced bog. What bit do you have chucked in it? Grizzly I assume, but very small. I use the purple 5/8 straight bits normally, and wing cutters for final cut shafts & high figure woods.
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they dont make dewalt laminate trimmers anymore????
i didnt know that
dewalt bought out by porter cable????
i have three
i think it's grizzlys 1/4 or 3/8 bit in there, whatevers handy at the time ya know ;)
do most of my roughing with those and switch to better bits for the final cut
 
BHQ said:
they dont make dewalt laminate trimmers anymore????
i didnt know that
dewalt bought out by porter cable????
i have three
i think it's grizzlys 1/4 or 3/8 bit in there, whatevers handy at the time ya know ;)
do most of my roughing with those and switch to better bits for the final cut
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No, the ones like that are not made anymore. DeWalt trimmers are still sold but they are now exactly the same as the Porter Cable but with a rounded plastic top. Everything else is identical. I'm not sure who owns who, or if it's just a sub-contract, but it is what it is. I have one of the Porter Cables & one of the new DeWalts, like them just fine but love the convenience of the old style.
 
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