Rosewood Or Bocote Vote

Rosewood or Bocote for a cue

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Million different types of rosewood....some are great, some not so great. Best hitting rosewood is brazilian imo, but bacote ain't bad either in a playing cue.
 
correct Ebony is not a Rosewood.African Black is in the Rosewood family but not Ebony.i like almost any Rosewood over Bacote any day of the week.Bacote plays well but looks ugly to me and most Rosewoods play well and also look good.Coco,Kingwood,Bois De Rois,Honduran,Brazilian,Camdodian,etc and the list of beautifyl woods goes on.
 
Between the two, rosewood for sure, even though the best brazilian rosewood forests are long gone.whats left is still better than bocote, which i dont personaly care for.
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Jayman.
 
there are actually a few Rosewoods out there considered to be as good or better tone woods than Brazilian and also prettier imo.while i have seen some beautiful Brazilian most of it is fairly plain especially the pieces i have seen recently.Honduran and Cambodian have similar tones and are actually denser.
 
I'll also take bocote over rosewood. IMO rosewood play very well, but bocote plays better. (At least in a full splice). I also love the figuring in bocote... it can be nuts! :)
 
Bocote for me. Brazilian Rosewood does nothing for me. I love cocobolo!!!!!!

JMO
 
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Cocobolo is a nice playing Rosewood,one of my favorites.i think alot of people assume Rosewood to mean East Indian which is rather light and not near as dense as Cocobolo,Blackwood,Honduran Rosewood or Cambodian Rosewood.these are all dense and solid feeling woods and all play great.i also like the feel of Bacote,but i can't get past the looks.as far as brazilian being plain and ordinary,i agree with you,but it used to be different.there used to be nice pieces that were accessible,but now everytime i hear of someone having some it turns out to be something just brown and not very figured.i have seen the good stuff so i know it used to exist.
 
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I've always been a fan of rosewoods, but I think my next cue will be bocote because of all the talk about how some people absolutely love the way it plays. We'll see :)
 
Of all the cues I have owned/played throughout the years, the single best hitting of them all had a Bacote front... so that would be my choice. Plus, a well figured piece is simply beautiful.
 
For looks and play, I'm going to have to go with Bacote.

Also, for what it's worth, when I got my first Cognoscenti cue I asked Joey Gold the same question (as he only uses 4-5 woods). He said that Bacote makes the best playing cue.
 
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