I seem to be moving a bit closer to trying my hand at the cue building game. I even mentioned it to my wife and she didn't throw anything, or get on the phone with her lawyer, so that is a good sign.
I have a bunch of nice exotic and domestic hardwood that I am thinking of cutting up into blanks for cue building. What is the minimum size (maximum yield) that I dare cut these for butts, forearms and shafts? I need both square dimensions and lengths.
Woods species include:
- cocobolo
- Osage orange
- chakte viga
- african olive
- black and white ebony
- gaboon ebony
- bird's-eye maple
- curly soft maple
- plain hard maple
- curly hard maple
- curly bigleaf maple
- tulipwood
- bigleaf maple burl
- spalted maple
- myrtlewood
- canarywood
- pernambuco
- brazilian rosewood
- curly hickory
- white ash
- black walnut
- black cherry
- black locust
- asst. cherry and maple burls
- other stuff I may have forgotten about
Some of the stuff is only 4/4, and some is too short for anything but rings and such. I will be offering some of it for sale, or may be willing to trade for premium shaft wood/parts/machinery I will be needing.
The brazilian rosewood is exceptionally nice, a giant slab of clear pre-embargo wood 1 1/4" thick, 22" wide and 48" long. It used to be a Danish table, the only solid rosewood Danish furniture I've come across in my travels.
It cost me a bloody fortune, but I couldn't bear to see it sitting there in a showroom, destined to be a plant table in some rich guy's sunroom. All the guitar makers I know have foolishly passed on this slab. Time to make use of it for something more extraordinary than furniture, we won't be seeing wood of this quality ever again.
I have a bunch of nice exotic and domestic hardwood that I am thinking of cutting up into blanks for cue building. What is the minimum size (maximum yield) that I dare cut these for butts, forearms and shafts? I need both square dimensions and lengths.
Woods species include:
- cocobolo
- Osage orange
- chakte viga
- african olive
- black and white ebony
- gaboon ebony
- bird's-eye maple
- curly soft maple
- plain hard maple
- curly hard maple
- curly bigleaf maple
- tulipwood
- bigleaf maple burl
- spalted maple
- myrtlewood
- canarywood
- pernambuco
- brazilian rosewood
- curly hickory
- white ash
- black walnut
- black cherry
- black locust
- asst. cherry and maple burls
- other stuff I may have forgotten about
Some of the stuff is only 4/4, and some is too short for anything but rings and such. I will be offering some of it for sale, or may be willing to trade for premium shaft wood/parts/machinery I will be needing.
The brazilian rosewood is exceptionally nice, a giant slab of clear pre-embargo wood 1 1/4" thick, 22" wide and 48" long. It used to be a Danish table, the only solid rosewood Danish furniture I've come across in my travels.
It cost me a bloody fortune, but I couldn't bear to see it sitting there in a showroom, destined to be a plant table in some rich guy's sunroom. All the guitar makers I know have foolishly passed on this slab. Time to make use of it for something more extraordinary than furniture, we won't be seeing wood of this quality ever again.
