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what do you think are the most expensive\rare woods in cues. my top five is:
snakewood
amboyna\thuya burl
pink ivory
some kind of palisander(rio)
what woods do you want to see in your next cue?
 
undertaker said:
what do you think are the most expensive\rare woods in cues. my top five is:
snakewood
amboyna\thuya burl
pink ivory
some kind of palisander(rio)
what woods do you want to see in your next cue?
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Where I buy my wood, ebony has always been the most expensive. Whether that means its the most rare, I don't know. Some wood I haven't seen years. Hawiian Koa, for instance, must be getting very, very scarce. I barely remember what it looks like...
A cue with Zebrawood in it would be interesting. I know its real stringy when you cut it, no idea what it would be like on a lathe.
My favs are the rosewoods, specifically cocobola.
Tulipwood is spectacular and polishes to a glass finish. Smells like flowers when its worked. God must have spent extra time making it... :)
Wenge is dark and masculine looking. It would be a decent pick as well.
 
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Where I buy my wood, ebony has always been the most expensive. Whether that means its the most rare, I don't know. Some wood I haven't seen years. Hawiian Koa, for instance, must be getting very, very scarce. I barely remember what it looks like...
A cue with Zebrawood in it would be interesting. I know its real stringy when you cut it, no idea what it would be like on a lathe.
My favs are the rosewoods, specifically cocobola.
Tulipwood is spectacular and polishes to a glass finish. Smells like flowers when its worked. God must have spent extra time making it... :)
Wenge is dark and masculine looking. It would be a decent pick as well.
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I like your choices, can I ride along?

And, what is like "chess on wheels"?

-pigi
 
There is I think one kind of Ebony wood in the Philippines, they called it kamagong, very rare and expensive, and is I think you need government permission to cut those. It is really solid black and no wood grain. If anybody have, I'll buy one to make my cues.
 
i've got some lignum vitae in a Widowmaker, along with birds eye maple, white holly and yellow brazilian satinwood. Is the lignum vitae rare? Dennis
 
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parvus1202 said:
There is I think one kind of Ebony wood in the Philippines, they called it kamagong, very rare and expensive, and is I think you need government permission to cut those. It is really solid black and no wood grain. If anybody have, I'll buy one to make my cues.
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Parv, they are not that rare. Philippine ebony, kamagong ( also used for fighting sticks), actually looks more like zircote and is even used on Filipino pool ( chips are used instead of balls).
The wood is very hard and unstable. It will have to be cored to make a cue the safe way.
 
dmgwalsh said:
i've got some lignum vitae in a Widowmaker, along with birds eye maple, white holly and yellow brazilian satinwood. Is the lignum vitae rare? Dennis
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I don't think it's too rare - I had a lot of lignum vitae scrap from the local shipyard (at one time it was used for tailshaft bearings, as the natural oil combined with the sea water to make them self-lubricating.) It is VERY hard and heavy (will sink, not float, in water) and the natural oils polish to a beautiful waxey surface, but I tried it for knife handles and handgun grips and could not seal it well enough to keep it from checking and cracking. Talked to several other local knife-makers and they reported the same thing - hard to work and crack-prone.
Walt in VA
 
Rare woods

hi,

The rarest woods are the woods you will almost never find on the market.

Think of Almond wood, Buxus (10 to 15" wide), European olivewood (15 to 25" wide), Blackberry...

Anyhow, all the hardwoods are getting rare. This because of abusive forest recoltation. The trees are being cut down by the thousands a day and are sold very cheap to big sawmills wich do not apply the correct techniques to work the logs.

The result is a 60% loss of good wood in the processing part at the mills and lumber giants of this world. A big waste.

Did you know that more than 50% of the maple trees in the US and Canada go to Japan? There, the wood is sawn in to boards and squares within a few weeks. Result? the wood works and warps. Just a big waste!

The solution to this problem is very simple: just proces the logs the right way and let the wood work before cutting it into boards (preferably quarter sawn) and then should the boards get the chance to dry properly.
That way, you could obtain quality lumber...

So why isn't it done that way? IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY!!! MONEY!!! MONEY!!!
The big enterprices prefer to destroy our forests than to accept a little less profit...

Tom
 
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