Olivewood as handle wood...

Fenris

Fenris

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I am slowly saving up for a cocobolo wrapless custom. The problem I have is deciding what wood to use as the contrasting handle wood. The two I've narrowed it down to is satinwood and olivewood. I like the satinwood for the color contrast, yellow on red cocobolo. However, I've read that olivewood has a very nice hit to it and I've seen some very nicely figured pieces in butt sleeves and points, but not as a handle.

My question, then, is would olivewood make a good handle wood for a wrapless cue? Your opinions and/or suggestions are appreciated.
 
Olive is unstable & often warps, plus takes a very long time for a builder to turn it into a stable piece. Coring is an option that works well with olive. But in my opinion, as nice as olive would look on coco, the satinwood gives a super contrast in color & satin is a great hitting wood. Stin wood is very similar to purpleheart, tonal & hard. I built a cue with coco front & butt with a fiddleback satin handle, was a beautiful cue. It's the cue second from bottom:

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Here is a cue I built some time ago with the reverse of what you want , but shows the woods contrast together.
It had a mexican cocobola handle with olivewood forarm and buttsleeve with thya burl rings. I can't find the pics of it finished , but I dug up this one. Maybe it helps...
Jim
 

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I completely agree with Eric. I think coco and satinwood are a great color combination, particularly Nicaraguan coco with some varied color streaking and satinwood. Some streaking in the coco can make the two complement and contrast at the same time.

Kelly
 
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