What are the most stable and playable cue wood?

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Ernie eyocues

Ernie Omori
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I would like to know from your experiences what woods make the best cue?
Sure the ebonies, burls, figured, woods look nice but what woods actually make
the best playing cues without coring?

ernie
 
macguy

macguy

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Ernie eyocues said:
I would like to know from your experiences what woods make the best cue?
Sure the ebonies, burls, figured, woods look nice but what woods actually make
the best playing cues without coring?

ernie
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I like SG Maple and Purpleheart
 
desi2960

desi2960

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for a one piece butt

i believe bocote would be my first choice., very stable, looks good enough, cost effective.
 
swilliespeed

swilliespeed

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Paduk works very well with straight grain maple. Jatoba/Brazilian Cherry is nice and stable also. A majority of the old Dufferin house cues was Jatoba and hard maple.
 
cueman

cueman

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Maple is one of the best playing, but there are other woods that are actually more stable. Bocote, Wenge, and Purple heart all play pretty good as butts without coring and are pretty stable.
 
Joe Barringer

Joe Barringer

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Guerra Cues said:
Absolutely. Bem and curly need to be cored for stability and warpness purposes.
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Absolutely, the "warpness" is extremely important as is the straightness, weightness, playabilityness, hitness and resonanceness. They're all necessaryness. :D

Sorry, I couldn't resist.
 
Guerra Cues

Guerra Cues

I build one cue at a time
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Joe Barringer said:
Absolutely, the "warpness" is extremely important as is the straightness, weightness, playabilityness, hitness and resonanceness. They're all necessaryness. :D

Sorry, I couldn't resist.
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I made that word up in 2 seconds ok? :thumbup:
Stay out of trouble Joe! I forgot... When are you going to record a new DVD without smoking?
 
ddadams

ddadams

Absolutely love this cue.
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63Kcode said:
IMHO the best playing cues I have built were uncored maple forearms. Sadly, they have been the hardest to sell.

Larry
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Straight grain or figured?


I have a real "fetish" for straight grain maple forearms... I never see them and I REALLY LOVE THEM.


Thread related, didn't want to clutter this subforum with another cue wood playing topic but how does bloodwood play?

I've been contemplating purple heart vs bloodwood vs padauk for my new cue coming real soon...

I saw the janka hardness ratings,
Purple heart: 2713
Bloodwood: 2900

So straight grain vs straight grain here, which would play stiffer? I've never hit with a bloodwood cue.

Keith makes a stiff hitting cue but I want that extra crisp hit.
 
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Ernie eyocues

Ernie Omori
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results so far,

Thanks for the great feedback. I'm trying to build a stable,
traveling, forward weighted, cue, with aesthetics second.
It looks like sg maple, padauk, PH, bacote get the most
votes. Straight grain stuff gets plenty of votes too. I've
use bloodwood and wenge too and they seem to be stable.

Lately I've been cutting my woods along the grain lines, it
hurts to waste the wood, but I'm looking for a good stable
player. I have a PH on PH, PH and maple, bloodwood and
maple, on the near list. I guess I'll add padauk, and bacote
to the list. Lately, knock on wood, things have been reasonably
stable. We all know it hurts when we respin a blank and it
wobbles. That feeling is a good teacher but I want to
minimizes it, I have enough toothpicks.

thanks, Ernie
 
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