Pool cue as a diddley bow neck: Whch end?

[Michael Hagen]

I scored five unfinished  pool cues for $5 (total!) at the last big flea market of the fall season. I also scored an five-piece set of cherry wood salad bowls from Japan, one 14-inch mixing bowl and four 8-inch serving bowls. Also $5. The fives were not a cosmic accident. The two finds had to go together. Diddley bow plus bowl equals diddley bowl. I was slightly surprised that I wasn't the first to discover the name.

The big bowl obviously gets the big end of a pool cue, tapering from 1.25 inches at the head to 0.75 inch at the tail. My problem is the large end looks ridiculous on the tiny bowls. But I've never played a one-stringer, and fear that the small end (tapering from one inch to 0.5) might be harder to slide on. 

Any thoughts?

Please,no Lilliput/Blefuscu jokes from you literary types, or Big Endian/Little Endian observations from the computer science geeks. 

[Michael Hagen]

[John Sawyer]

here is how I did mine...note i did drill a new string hole in the tuner shaft...  the skinny neck is great!

the neck goes to the end of he box and is held in place by a screw eye, which the string is tied to... 

pthe nut is a sheetmetal screw I ground down just a bit...

John

[Paul Craig]

Small end may start to bow on you under the string tension, so I would use the larger piece.

[John Sawyer]

With one string, the tension isn't that great, and pool cues are really hard wood.. This one hasn't bowed yet!  Maybe cut 1' off the tip to get a little bigger...