Raised Cue Grain.

[nullsys]

culraven:
It's a Peradon. One of their new range. Not impressed.

After sanding, all woods will go lighter in colour, when you apply a few coats of oil, it will get darker and a deeper shade will be seen.
On ash shafts, I would never use wire wool, only because it has a tendency to pull out the grain filler that makes the ash dark.
It's fine to use on maple or hardwood butts with close grain but not on ash.

I thought this might be the case. I'm not used to working with rosewood at all, so it's been a scary process.
I'll oil it over the weekend again.
Thanks buddy!

[andy carson]

the rosewood looking patchy could be down to an uneven coating of oil on it....

and apparently the new peradon cues are utter tripe for quality.