RANDY ANDERSON
WRAPLESS FULL SPLICE
IN SAPELE AND MAPLE
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Here is another very pretty cue from Randy Anderson of Wichita, Kansas. Wichita is a bit of a hotbed of good cue makers these days - there are several very good cuemakers building fine cues there, and Randy is one of them.
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This is another full splice cue from him. He builds his own blanks, and does it very well. This one is sappele going into a birdseye maple nose.
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Sapele (pronounced sa-PEE-lee) is a high quality wood from tropical Africa that is often marketed as African Mahogany. Many sources consider it to be the best of those woods grouped under the mahogany name. It is a very hard, tight-grained wood that is highly stable and is widely used in many applications, including fuirniture and flooring.
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Sapele has a nice grain, as these pictures show. In this cue, it has a mottled effect, almost like a burl. It's very pretty.
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The pictures below show the pretty grain in the sapele, and also give a great look at these beautiful veneers.
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Randy does a great job building his ful splice cues. The points are always even (in both directions) and his veneers are beautiful.
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This one goes into a very nice birdseye maple nose. It's a nice contrast to the sapele, and creates a great look.
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The veneer colors are black, red, green and blue, using black paper for separation and that clean, crisp look that we like to see. The colors are brilliant and vibrant, and really set this cue apart from the crowd.
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As usual, he engraves his "A" logo in the butt cap.
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He builds it with a white LBM joint, with a brass 3/8X10 pin. These full splice cues hit a ton - they are made to play.
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He adds a nice, mostly red, dash ring pattern that looks great. It pulls in the red from the veneers and completes the overall beauty of this stick. It comes with one 13mm premium maple shaft with an LBM ferrule and a layered tip.
It weighs 19.3 ounces (15.4, 3.9) and is 58 inches long.
PRICE: $1500 PLUS SHIPPING
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