Giuli Cues Woods Options
There are many types of woods used in custom pool cue making requiring dense hardwoods and unique figures.
Many species of exotics woods also have multiple variations and sub subspecies that prove to be of high value to custom pool cue makers.
Burls: the large bulb type growth of trees offers some the most prized wood available to cue makers
Maple
Cocobola
Ebony
Bacote
More About Wood
Each Variety of Wood offers a different look & feel
Maple wood
Can be easily stained
Versatile
Used for cores, shafts and cue parts
TYPES OF MAPLE
Ebony Wood
Hard, dense, Lustrious
Hard,Solid Hitting wood
Used for cue building
VARIETIES OF EBONY
Cocobolo
Dense, Vibrant Colors
Native to Central America
Highly prized member of the Rosewood family
Dense, durable, workable tropical hardwood prized in Cue making
Bacote
Beautiful, Hard, Dense
Cental American wood
Highly figured gold to brown color
prized in cue making
Purpleheart
Durable & Dense
Origin:
Central America
Vibrant Purple color
resistant to decay
Turns well & prized in cue making
Offers a very nice smooth hitting pool cue
Spalted Tamarind
Unique
The wood is unique in appearance due to the natural decaying process resulting in the black lines of the yellow to white wood.
Dense
unique
Turnable
Other Noteable Woods:
Burls: (what is a Burl?)
There are a considerable amount of different wood types that I did not mention to this point. I will update this page as time permits and as I add more wood varieties to my catalog. No matter the wood you're using moisture content is one of the most important parts of processing the blanks.
Techniques used in cue making to get the most consistent pool cues.
Coring: We use a 30 inch maple core in almost all of our cue builds.
Stabalizing