Can you add grain to a cue shaft ?

[The Stig]

If you have a shaft thats almost ideal where it has some nice arrows then a big gap then arrows again, can a cue maker add arrows to fill the void so it becomes less distracting ?

[jim evans]

no you need an artist

[Deepscrew]

This is a pic of Coutts supreme cue with hand made arrows. Thats as close as you could get to what yor thinking. Not really going to work with an ash shaft though putting a man made arrow next to natural ones....

[The Stig]

no you need an artist

Rolf Harris ? Are you saying he could do it ?

[poolqjunkie]

This is a pic of Coutts supreme cue with hand made arrows. Thats as close as you could get to what yor thinking. Not really going to work with an ash shaft though putting a man made arrow next to natural ones....

Is that like arrows drawn/engraved on a maple shaft? Wonder how he did it...

[JasonOwen]

Airin,
Almost looks like he has laminated veneers with maple then tapered a shaft out of it.
Not very natural but hey what a great idea for all the people out there who want a perfect looking shaft. Not sure what it would play like though???

[jaffa.johnson]

I thought I read somewhere before he updated his site that it is walnut cut into the maple.

Not 100% though.

[poolqjunkie]

So, is it like walnut laminted into malple like a piece of plywood then planned to round? Very interesting.:-)
So, are the back grains same as the front?

[Deepscrew]

http://www.couttscues.co.uk/gallerycues.html for more details..

Think there might be a video on it too somehwere on the site.

[Raldon]

Airin,
Almost looks like he has laminated veneers with maple then tapered a shaft out of it.
Not very natural but hey what a great idea for all the people out there who want a perfect looking shaft. Not sure what it would play like though???

I saw an omin cue with a similar shaft at the ptc 4. Very interesting indeed.
The seller told me that it is a laminated shaft. There wasnt a way for a playtest, but he told me it plays different to "normal" shafts.

[Jasonteh6688]

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Laminated shaft from omin, not sure how they make.

[cazmac1]

I to have given this some thought and can't see why a good French polisher could do this.

[poolqjunkie]

Very interesting indeed. I am very interested to know how it plays. If I am understanding this correctly, it is a kind of flat laminated shaft, with two kinds of wood laminated one being darker and the other being likely maple?
There is no reason it would not play well in my opinion.
Just wondering if there is a big difference in how the cue plays with the shaft being held at different orientation?
Was this done mainly for good looking chevrons?

[Jasonteh6688]

I am not sure about it airin, but from what I heard from the cue owner , they said the cue power is amazing, they put a title on the picture says " you can't imagine how powerful these cue are" lolx

[cazmac1]

I would like to try one