What kind of wood in this?

[Cornerman]

I guess i'm seeing a different pic than everybody else, because I don't see any brown at all. Looks like typical curly purpleheart. Doesn't look to be faded or anything, just the red/purple that it naturally is.

This is what I see.

 

[marknyc]

Looks like Purpleheart with some slight figuring (shot in bad light or bad camera settings).

 

[TATE]

Everybody seems to have a different color on their screen. Regardless of the wood, the appearance is that of a highly figured wood. I've always liked figured points against an ebony forearm.
I prefer burls myself. Shown below are Madrone burl and snakewood (which is not a burl). Redwood burl is also beautiful and maple burl can be dyed to liking.

 

[DEGAMO88]

I guess i'm seeing a different pic than everybody else, because I don't see any brown at all. Looks like typical curly purpleheart. Doesn't look to be faded or anything, just the red/purple that it naturally is.

Hey Eric,

I emailed you awhile back. Can you get back to me?

 

[THam]

At the time the only picture I had seen of it was the one I posted and on my screen it looked brown. It does look like purpleheart in the butt sleeve.

 

[Veteran68]

Again, I see the same thing Fred is seeing. The veneer is distinctly purple, but the point interior is distinctly a rich figured brown with no sign of purpleheart. Look how purple the purpleheart is in my pics above, and compare with the OP's pic. His points look closer to my coco points in color than it does the purpleheart.

BTW my 3 monitors are all calibrated with an Eye-One Display 2 professional calibration puck. It looks exactly the same on all of them.

 

[Rubik's Cube]

That's a beautiful cue, sir, first class workmanship.

I love Purpleheart, it forms the front splice on one of my English pool cues. From the top down, the splices are padauk, purpleheart, mahogany and a macassar ebony butt on the bottom cue.

 

[Cornerman]

Regardless of what the wood actually is, the OP clearly wants something figured and brownish/orangish. He wants snakewood, after all.

That opens up a world of cocobolos, rosewoods, and other exotic brownish figured woods (Koa, sapele, Ipe, amboyna...) for him to choose.

Freddie <~~~ favors ebony with curly purpleheart and amboyna burl points.

 

[THam]

Only difficulty of going with a brown like that is I'm not sure how it would turn out. Probably similar just actually brown.

 

[PaulieB]

I used to turn wood, and that is backwards from what I've seen. Purpleheart is brown when freshly cut and only turns purple when exposed to air...

Thank you! I was looking through the posts to see if someone said this before I had to. I cut down purpleheart blanks and they are brown as heck... I hand em for a few weeks near the small window in my garage and turn them once in a while. I don't know if it is the light or the air but they TURN purple ... which is opposite from what the original poster claimed.

 

[victorl]

Thank you! I was looking through the posts to see if someone said this before I had to. I cut down purpleheart blanks and they are brown as heck... I hand em for a few weeks near the small window in my garage and turn them once in a while. I don't know if it is the light or the air but they TURN purple ... which is opposite from what the original poster claimed.

You guys are right, I had my info backwards... it turns brown to purple, not purple to brown.

 

[THam]

I'm struggling to decide if a brown wood will look good in points if the veneer colors are similar. How common is purpleheart with figuring like this?

 

[Cornerman]

Only difficulty of going with a brown like that is I'm not sure how it would turn out. Probably similar just actually brown.

It will turn out beautiful with a competent cuemaker.