Mason, thank you for the comments, many are not well informed on woods but Cocus is a very rare and accepted tonal wood that is used in bagpipes and HIGH Quality woodwind instruturements, the wood is expensive and as you stated hard to find in a size suitable to use in a cue. I will honestly say this cue plays better than any cue i have or have played. Can i say that it is head and shoulders above the,Gus,Barry,Schick,Gina,Keikel,Bender,Weston,JR,Farris that i have had the privage to own in the past.................no, but i will say it is the cue that out of all of them that i would be using if i had to play the game of my life and i had all of them to choose from. I do not know that i will part with this cue, I sold my Gus and Barry trying to remain married and got divorced anyway, If I do this it is for a fiance due to some medical bills and she is OK with me keeping the cue. I will not be able to get another cue from Dennis before my death. I can not say Dennis makes the best cue out there but I WILL SAY that other than Barry and Mike Bender Dennis Searing has the most exact workmanship of anyone, i still have not experianced Joels workmanship but will soon and in my opinion Barry,Mike Bender and Dennis are the cats meow in cues.