Prices for different woods

[mhaimi]

I wanna have a wrapless custom cue like this...

Now my question: What are the prices only for the wood?

Maple would be the cheapest one...... ebony more expensive.....olive wood the most expensive of these three woods?

What's the price for olive wood used for a forearm and butt sleeve? It should be beautiful with lots of fine whirls in it...

What's the price for olive wood in comparison to birds eye maple?

Thanks

 

[qbilder]

Ebony will be be roughly $30 & the olive will be the same. For figured, swirly olive, you could pay as much as $50. Birdseye maple of typical high quality cue grade will be $15, or for the very best stuff around $25-$30. Good wood is never cheap, though is a small part of the cost of a cue. The thing with olive especially is that it's very, very unstable so expect some faults & buy an extra piece or two in planning for it. A cue like that will cost you roughly $100 in raw wood alone.

 

[greyghost]

Ebony will be be roughly $30 & the olive will be the same. For figured, swirly olive, you could pay as much as $50. Birdseye maple of typical high quality cue grade will be $15, or for the very best stuff around $25-$30. Good wood is never cheap, though is a small part of the cost of a cue. The thing with olive especially is that it's very, very unstable so expect some faults & buy an extra piece or two in planning for it. A cue like that will cost you roughly $100 in raw wood alone.

eric olive wood is more oily correct? Does that cause the wood to retain water/take longer to dry out properly? What about glueing/epoxy are there any problems there with this wood?

 

[mhaimi]

Thank you eric. Now i have received a few impressions how expensive an olive wood cue can get...

I have in mind to stain the olive wood in the area of the points. I only wanna make the outer lines of wood, black points of ebony or dark brown points of cocobolo or amboynba burl....

The inlays in the points are either of holly like in the picture above or of malachite or leopard jasper, I don't know yet...

And of course, I don't make the cue on my own........ David Jacoby will probably make it....price performance ratio is very good.

 

[qbilder]

Yeah, olive is very oily. I'm not sure exactly why it is so unstable, whether it has anything to do with the oil or not. It glues well & finishes well for me. It just takes a long time sitting around before it can be used and I have learned the hard way that it can never be trusted. When i'm planning a cue with olive, I stock about 3 times as much as i'll actually need because there have been lots of times I needed it. It's expensive but nothing else quite looks the same.

 

[JoeyInCali]

Yeah, olive is very oily. I'm not sure exactly why it is so unstable, whether it has anything to do with the oil or not. It glues well & finishes well for me. It just takes a long time sitting around before it can be used and I have learned the hard way that it can never be trusted. When i'm planning a cue with olive, I stock about 3 times as much as i'll actually need because there have been lots of times I needed it. It's expensive but nothing else quite looks the same.

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