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  • What is your number 1 wood for splices?

    What wood do you like to be used as secondary splices on your cue?

    My favorite is snakewood.

    I am working on a few cues and almost all of them have snakewood.

    Burl is my #2 and then tulip #3.

    I also like a wood called bocote and zirocote but they do not seem to be used at all on snooker cues.

    What about you?
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  • #2
    personnally I love Thurya Burr, or a figurative walnut.
    have many snakewood cues...

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    • #3
      I really like burr woods, but some rosewoods and tulipwood are nice as well.

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      • #4
        Cocobolo is my favourite.
        Snooker will rise once again

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        • #5
          i like kingwood with purple heart.

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          • #6
            Just used Pau Rosa and found it very very nice.

            Im one of the Cocobolo lovers club. Apart from looking good its nice to work with and finishes nicely. Only problem is it darkens with age

            Also another problem is the colour varies so much. At home i have pieces from very very dark brown, brown and streaky, Dark with reddy orange streak and bright orange.

            Oh and i LOVE satine bloodwood!!
            Last edited by totlxtc; 12 May 2009, 12:52 PM.
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            • #7
              Ebony . I'm serious.

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              • #8
                Tulipwood!
                Then Cocobolo
                Then more recently Pau Rosa is actually very very nice
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                • #9
                  Take a look at this Santos Rosewood.
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                  • #10
                    Yes, I love cocobolo, too. I had a few cues with a cocobolo butt, no ebony, and they look very nice. A nice piece looks like flames.

                    I saw a cue picture of a Trevor White made with pink ivory that was very nice, the pink ivory contrasts very well with the ebony and maple.

                    But snakewood is still my favorite.

                    Burl seems to come in all sorts of tones, some are very light like maple almost.

                    How about zebrawood? Anyone likes that?
                    Last edited by poolqjunkie; 12 May 2009, 06:55 PM.
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                    • #11
                      yes i like zebra wood too,but my next cue is gonna be something in curly maple or birds eye maple splicings.
                      RIP NOEL, A TRUE TSF LEGEND.

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                      • #12
                        zebrawood smells like sick! it really does. can look nice but if you are using it stick a clothes peg on your nose
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                        • #13
                          my number 1 wood for secondary splces is thuya burr number 2 is tulip wood.

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                          • #14
                            Cocobolo, Santos Rosewood, Kingwood, Tulipwood and Pau Rosa which I've recently discovered thanks to Dan. I also like Bird's eye maple and Curly maple a bit in spite of myself.
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                            • #15
                              Originally Posted by checkSide View Post
                              Take a look at this Santos Rosewood.
                              Trevor will put this piece on my cue... It looks fantastic.
                              I am confused... Oh wait... Maybe I'm not...

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