Which are light weight woods

[rhncue]

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.

I think that maybe some of our more elite cue-makers may have used Ramin wood in the past. When I had a shop in Columbus there was a fellow who used to come into Cornfed Reds to play. His grandfather had an old Josh or Joss West, just which I can't remember now but at any rate he brought the cue in and had me recondition it for a Christmas present or his grandfather. It had two shafts both of which had ivory ferrules, one was maple and the other sure looked like Ramin wood. After refinishing the cue and filling in where he had carved his name with a pen knife, they gave it to him for Christmas. He came in and I asked him about the shaft and he said that when he ordered it he had a choice between a maple shaft or what they called a Lemon Wood shaft so he got one of each. It sure looked like Ramin wood to me. Bill may step in and correct me if I'm wrong and explain just what Lemon Wood is.

Dick

 

[MVPCues]

I think that maybe some of our more elite cue-makers may have used Ramin wood in the past. When I had a shop in Columbus there was a fellow who used to come into Cornfed Reds to play. His grandfather had an old Josh or Joss West, just which I can't remember now but at any rate he brought the cue in and had me recondition it for a Christmas present or his grandfather. It had two shafts both of which had ivory ferrules, one was maple and the other sure looked like Ramin wood. After refinishing the cue and filling in where he had carved his name with a pen knife, they gave it to him for Christmas. He came in and I asked him about the shaft and he said that when he ordered it he had a choice between a maple shaft or what they called a Lemon Wood shaft so he got one of each. It sure looked like Ramin wood to me. Bill may step in and correct me if I'm wrong and explain just what Lemon Wood is.

Dick

I think several have tried lemon wood for shafts. It is not as dark as Ramin, though perhaps after chalk stains and years of use it might look similar.

My first cue as a kid was an ultra cheap small cue with a ramin butt with the hideous plastic inlays. It had a golf club type wrap and a badly fitting brass joint. The shaft was surprisingly a halfway decent hard maple shaft. I often wish I still had it just to say I have the first cue I played with as a kid.

Kelly