Vegetable Ivory

[1-pocket-player]

A friend of mine e-mailed this link to me wondering if this would make a good ferrule material.
Have any of you cuemakers ever heard of, or used this stuff?

the link is- http://www.tagua2go.com/

 

[cueman]

It makes good inlays, but the inlays have to be fairly small. I would hesitate to use it for ferrules. I have cut the nuts up years ago and it is pretty strong but I don't think I would chance it for ferrules. You would have to get large nuts to find pieces without the bad spot that is in the middle showing up in the ferrule.
Chris
www.hightowercues.com
www.internationalcuemakers.com

 

[Jude Rosenstock]

A friend of mine e-mailed this link to me wondering if this would make a good ferrule material.
Have any of you cuemakers ever heard of, or used this stuff?

the link is- http://www.tagua2go.com/

How strange! There was an article on CNN.com about it.

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/04/26/vegivory/

 

[1-pocket-player]

That is where he got it from!