White Oak?

[GBCues]

Over in the For Sale/Wanted forum, there's a thread where a guy is raving about how well white oak hits. I've never heard of white oak in a cue nor remember seeing it mentioned here.
Truth or dare?

http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=338682

Just wondering,
Gary

 

[tynck]

Schuler has an white oak cue. http://www.schuler-cue.com/details.php?ID=27 They tell it has a good hit too. Haven't tried myself, but I think it should have a solid hit.

 

[mfarrey71]

Some of the old Titlists were oak. I have one converted by Steve Klapp. It's very solid but the problem is it's really dense thus making it a very heavy wood.

 

[KJ Cues]

I've used Oak for the wrap-handle on several cues I've built.
Given my druthers, I prefer Red.

KJ

 

[qbilder]

Over last summer I spent a couple months cutting maple for shafts. While on one of my scouting trips, I came across a log that was sunken deep into the ground but I noticed that the exposed cap was figured. I knew right away that it was chestnut oak (a white oak) because the stuff simply won't rot away. After cleaning it up and milling, I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was heavily curled and absolutely no deterioration aside from bug holes. I retrieved a couple hundred bf from that log. Turned most of it into my new bathroom vanity, gave a table slab to a family woodworker, and turned some leftovers into cue woods. Still have a few slabs yet. Might cut them into cue squares, might not. Considering there were remnants of a fence in the tree, and the family has never put fence up on that ridge, the tree is from around WWI when the army "borrowed" the property by imminent domain for use as an artillery range and this tree was on the edge of the range. None of the family elders even knew there was a fence up there. My uncle said he's been hunting that ridge for 70yrs & there had never been a fence there. Makes this log pretty old.

Here's a forearm/butt set I made so far. The color is bleached out by the flash. The wood is naturally a little darker than the pic shows. Best part is that it smells like bourbon when working! Not sure about the "great playability". It's a very hard wood, stiff, strong, but lacking in the tonal dept. Time will tell

 

[JoeyInCali]

Over last summer I spent a couple months cutting maple for shafts. While on one of my scouting trips, I came across a log that was sunken deep into the ground but I noticed that the exposed cap was figured. I knew right away that it was chestnut oak (a white oak) because the stuff simply won't rot away. After cleaning it up and milling, I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was heavily curled and absolutely no deterioration aside from bug holes. I retrieved a couple hundred bf from that log. Turned most of it into my new bathroom vanity, gave a table slab to a family woodworker, and turned some leftovers into cue woods. Still have a few slabs yet. Might cut them into cue squares, might not. Considering there were remnants of a fence in the tree, and the family has never put fence up on that ridge, the tree is from around WWI when the army "borrowed" the property by imminent domain for use as an artillery range and this tree was on the edge of the range. None of the family elders even knew there was a fence up there. My uncle said he's been hunting that ridge for 70yrs & there had never been a fence there. Makes this log pretty old.

Here's a forearm/butt set I made so far. The color is bleached out by the flash. The wood is naturally a little darker than the pic shows. Best part is that it smells like bourbon when working! Not sure about the "great playability". It's a very hard wood, stiff, strong, but lacking in the tonal dept. Time will tell

Looks like Satinwood to me.

 

[qbilder]

Looks like Satinwood to me.

Or koa :thumbup:

 

[Lexicologist71]

It has flecks and rays just like the curly white oak in my basement. I have a white oak Schuler and it has a very firm hit. Granted, it will feel firm at 18.2 oz, but my other Schulers are all under 19 oz. and they don't feel close to as firm as the oak cue. In comparison to many of the exotic hardwoods we use, oaks are light.

 

[whammo57]

White oak and black walnut.......... the oak is from a wheel barrel handle I bought at Lowes...

Kim

 

[daxe]

Oak Cues

Here is a cue I built out of White Oak several years ago it has two shafts one standard and one L-D that I Make also with stack leather wrap and Turquoise rings hits medium at 18.5 very sssweet. It now resides in Monroe La in a happy home

Dan Axe

 

[Lexicologist71]

Here's some of my curly white oak. It looks a lot better in person. The pic was over exposed. There's actually a good bit of curl from end to end.

 

[Lexicologist71]

Here's some stuff that came out of some firewood. It has yet to dry or be stabilized, but it shows a lot of potential. It has been soaked in Pentacryl to keep it from cracking.