Schon points ques

[Sharpfive]

I have an STL-3 but this might apply to b others:

The four points are Birdseye maple outlined in ebony. Very nice looking, but the forearm is Birdseye maple. What is the point (no pun intended) of inlaying Birdseye maple into Birdseye maple?

 

[Buzzard II]

It's all for visual effect. The dark stained parts (points) are to look like a true spliced cue.

 

[Sharpfive]

It's all for visual effect. The dark stained parts (points) are to look like a true spliced cue.

Thanks, but not quite what I mean. Usually the wood inlays are a different species than the forearm. The exact same species with teh same grain seems odd since you could just stain that portion of the forearm and skip the inlay (except for the ebony outline).

 

[garczar]

Point is the designer/builder liked it. They've sold a bunch of those so others must like it too.

 

[jayman]

Thanks, but not quite what I mean. Usually the wood inlays are a different species than the forearm. The exact same species with teh same grain seems odd since you could just stain that portion of the forearm and skip the inlay (except for the ebony outline).

Is that not exactly what they did? Cut a pocket for the ebony point, stain the part below the pocket and insert ebony into the pocket. That is exactly what you described as near as i can tell.

 

[Sharpfive]

That is what I would think would be done, but I have seen it represented in various descriptions over the years to be inlays.

 

[Logandgriff]

I've had a couple of these and they look like only the ebony parts of the points are inlayed. The parts of the points inside the ebony outlines that match the butt are just stained not inlayed.

 

[jimmyco]

What is the point (no pun intended) of inlaying Birdseye maple into Birdseye maple?

Some people have the crazy notion that BEM has beautiful figure.

Go figure.

 

[RickLafayette]

Even though both parts of the butt are bird's eye maple, to my eye, the grains don't match up on either side of the ebony. Would this indicate a splice or are the stained points inlayed with the ebony?

 

[jimmyco]

Even though both parts of the butt are bird's eye maple, to my eye, the grains don't match up on either side of the ebony. Would this indicate a splice or are the stained points inlayed with the ebony?

Cannot answer your question, but I agree about the different grain and figure on many examples of the STL-3.

 

[Sharpfive]

Even though both parts of the butt are bird's eye maple, to my eye, the grains don't match up on either side of the ebony. Would this indicate a splice or are the stained points inlayed with the ebony?

Well, there is definitely no splice.

I tried to see if the grain matched up, and it was really hard to tell. In many places, it looked like it did. BEM is kinda funny that way.

So I think that the maple portion is likely just the forearm stained darker than the rest, and the inlay is the ebony only. Seems others have drawn similar conclusions.