Which are light weight woods

Yeah, bubinga is not really as light as the general lightweight woods. I have had some lightweight bubinga before, especially the pomelle figured stuff, but the straight grain ribbon figure stuff is usually pretty dang dense. Shedua is lightweight, and not mentioned. Certain purplehearts are lightweight similar to maple. Redheart is lightweight, and beautiful.
 
I made a one piece bubinga break cue. With SS pin, it weighed 17.8 oz.
Great breaker .
 
JoeyInCali said:
I made a one piece bubinga break cue. With SS pin, it weighed 17.8 oz.
Great breaker .
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That's roughly what I get in solid purpleheart cues before doing any weight work. Maple is always a little lighter, but not much.
 
Canarywood is pretty light and a little stronger than Maple too,but slightly heavier.also excellent tone.
 
qbilder said:
Shedua is lightweight, and not mentioned.
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This happens to be the least expensive cue offered by Schmelke for a one piece butt. Does it hit well?
It isn't pretty, but for $75 plus the custom options I'd make due. That friggin' cocobola had me at hello. It's a hard one to get over.
 
Does it hit well?
A good piece paired with a good piece of maple would.
You can have a board with great pieces and bad pieces.
 
Is Shedua much lighter than Maple?
For example, how much would you estimate a 29" or 30" typical butt of each to weigh?
While you're at it, how about coco bola, bocote, and purpleheart?
Thanks
 
bluepepper said:
This happens to be the least expensive cue offered by Schmelke for a one piece butt. Does it hit well?
It isn't pretty, but for $75 plus the custom options I'd make due. That friggin' cocobola had me at hello. It's a hard one to get over.
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Schmelke makes a very good cue for the money...JER
 
Shedua is a hard & strong wood, and is usually high quality. I use it frequently in three peice butts. I prefer the figured stuff & that's all I buy. But it does make for a nice one peice cue. I built one a few months ago & it was a fine player. Naturally it weighed out to around 13.5oz but wasn't tough to add weight by giving it a heavier shaft & doing some weighting inside the butt. It came out to 19oz. pretty easily.

As for the other woods, it'll depend on each peice and the joint used. Schmelke offers several joints, my favorite being the 3/8-10. The purple should weigh in naturally at around 17-18oz. The cocobolo is tricky because is varies so much in weight, but could be anything from 19oz to 22oz. Bocote will almost always come in close to 19oz with a steel 3/8-10 pin.

Jerry is right. Schmelke makes a whopper of a cue for the money.
 
qbilder said:
Shedua is a hard & strong wood, and is usually high quality. I use it frequently in three peice butts. I prefer the figured stuff & that's all I buy. But it does make for a nice one peice cue. I built one a few months ago & it was a fine player. Naturally it weighed out to around 13.5oz but wasn't tough to add weight by giving it a heavier shaft & doing some weighting inside the butt. It came out to 19oz. pretty easily.

As for the other woods, it'll depend on each peice and the joint used. Schmelke offers several joints, my favorite being the 3/8-10. The purple should weigh in naturally at around 17-18oz. The cocobolo is tricky because is varies so much in weight, but could be anything from 19oz to 22oz. Bocote will almost always come in close to 19oz with a steel 3/8-10 pin.

Jerry is right. Schmelke makes a whopper of a cue for the money.
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Thanks so much. I assume the 13.5 oz. for the Shedua you mean for the butt alone? You give the others in total weights. Just making sure. And any guess on Maple?
 
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bluepepper said:
Thanks so much. I assume the 13.5 oz. for the Shedua you mean for the butt alone? You give the others in total weights. Just making sure. And any guess on Maple?
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That's correct, butt alone.

Maple cues I have built as one peice butts are initially around the same as shedua.
 
qbilder said:
That's correct, butt alone.

Maple cues I have built as one peice butts are initially around the same as shedua.
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Thanks. So the purpleheart, maple and shedua are all right around the same weight?
As for the heaviest of woods, I assume ebony is at the top? I'm wondering if ebony can be used at the very rear of the cue instead of a weight bolt to bring back the balance point, such as if I were to go with an all maple 58" cue with just 4 or 5" or so of ebony stuck onto the back to make it a 62 or 63" cue. I wonder if this would bring the balance point back to somewhere around 45" from the tip.
 
I used build compound bows in archery i used shedua and few other woods nice stuff.

wouldn't RAMIN WOOD be the lightest or chinese oak wood?

Craig
 
n10spool said:
I used build compound bows in archery i used shedua and few other woods nice stuff.

wouldn't RAMIN WOOD be the lightest or chinese oak wood?

Craig
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Ramin wood is a big taboo in cuemaking, not all too great of a wood for cues. It gets a bad rap from being used in all the $15 chinese imports.
 
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