Mystery wood cues

patrickjuhlin

patrickjuhlin

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My friend and local cue maker Ron Black picked some of this wood up from a local guy that could not identify it. Even to this day it has not been figured out, either way take a look at the pictures below and you will notice how amazing the wood is. It seems to be a spalted burl of sorts but who knows what kind of tree it came from. You will also notice his amazing craftsmanship, Ron Black makes some of the best hitting cues I have ever played with yet he is only known here locally and has really not produced a ton of cues. I constantly try to get him to make me one but he has a day job that takes up a ton of his time.
Three cues
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Forearm of unfinished full mystery wood cue
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Butt of unfinished mystery wood cue
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Ebony point into mystery wood cue forearm
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Ebony point into mystery wood cue butt
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Ebony point into mystery wood cue Ivory joint
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Forearm of the BEM into Ebony points with mystery wood butt cue
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Butt of the BEM into Ebony points with mystery wood butt cue
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patrickjuhlin said:
My friend and local cue maker Ron Black picked some of this wood up from a local guy that could not identify it. Even to this day it has not been figured out, either way take a look at the pictures below and you will notice how amazing the wood is. It seems to be a spalted burl of sorts but who knows what kind of tree it came from. You will also notice his amazing craftsmanship, Ron Black makes some of the best hitting cues I have ever played with yet he is only known here locally and has really not produced a ton of cues. I constantly try to get him to make me one but he has a day job that takes up a ton of his time.
Three cues

I would suspect that the wood pictured is Spalted Maple Burl, Spalted Quilted Maple.
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spalted maple

i have had several pieces of wood that looks identical to these pictures. spalted maple imo. chuck starkey
 
I would agree with my first guess being spalted burl maple. The only doubts that I have that it might not be a maple wood is because Ron Black the cue maker took some of this wood to Bill Schick a few years back and gave him some, Bill was not convinced for some reason that it was spalted burl maple. Who knows, all I can see is that it is some beautiful wood.
 
It's spalted, but that's about as much as can be seen from pics. I have had maple, birch, aspen, etc. that all looked like this. It could be any white or light yellow colored wood that has been spalted. Looks great, though :) I hope it's cored.
 
patrickjuhlin said:
It is cored, full maple core. :) these cues hit great, amazing players.
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Either way, beautiful cues. The top one with the ebony points is definately my favorite.
 
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