Our Cues / MK SERIES
Plain butt
The butt is left as the tree grew it. Natural colour, natural grain, ring work at the joints and nothing set into the wood itself. Quicker to build than an inlaid butt, and a good deal harder to get right, because there is no ornament to pull your eye away from a bad line.
Five references, five timbers. They all play the same. Pick the one you want to look at for the next ten years, or tell us how you play and we will point you at one.
MK01 – Bocote
Bocote
Dark ribbons through honey coloured grain. The figure never repeats, so no two are alike.
MK03 – Leopardwood
Leopardwood
Warm russet with bright flecks. Takes lacquer better than anything else on the bench.
MK04 – Bird’s-Eye Maple
Bird’s-Eye Maple
Pale grain with a thousand small eyes that move as the light moves.
MK05 – Purpleheart
Purpleheart
Violet now, dark plum in ten years. The wood keeps working after you buy it.
Want a plain butt in something else?
We hold eight timbers on the rack, not five. Hard maple, cocobolo and tulipwood are all built plain on request.
15+
YEARS OF CRAFT
500+
CUES HAND BUILT
10+
COUNTRIES SHIPPED
10+
TIMBER SPECIES
Not sure which timber?
Tell us what you play with now and how you like a cue to feel. We will tell you which of these you will probably get on with, and we will say so if none of them suit.