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🎈Ed Prewitt Black & White Ebony🎈
- By ivicafranic
- Cue & Case Gallery
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Ed Prewitt
Something you won't see often.
Black White Ebony, beautiful lizard leather wrap perfectly installed, 3/8x10 pin, Pau Shell the highest level dots rings on all location, custom built joint protectors with Pau Shell dots.
This is a very typical example of Ed Prewitt's work, who is known for his super-fancy ringwork. Almost all of his cues display his traditional rings containing very fancy small dots of naturally iridescent Paua Shell (Paua Shell is a natural product native to New Zealand.) They are very striking and add a lot to any cue.
Ed Prewitt is a master machinist who is known for his precise cue design and uncompromising quality. His philosophy on obtaining choice woods and materials for cuemaking is simple: "I want the very best available and I'm willing to pay for it."
Knowledge and state-of-the-art machinery enables Prewitt to fashion cues of distinctive design, performance, and quality. Ed Prewitt cues are known for their natural balance, responsiveness, and sheer beauty. For the player and, or collector, there's nothing like an Ed Prewitt cue.
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Something you won't see often.
Black White Ebony, beautiful lizard leather wrap perfectly installed, 3/8x10 pin, Pau Shell the highest level dots rings on all location, custom built joint protectors with Pau Shell dots.
This is a very typical example of Ed Prewitt's work, who is known for his super-fancy ringwork. Almost all of his cues display his traditional rings containing very fancy small dots of naturally iridescent Paua Shell (Paua Shell is a natural product native to New Zealand.) They are very striking and add a lot to any cue.
Ed Prewitt is a master machinist who is known for his precise cue design and uncompromising quality. His philosophy on obtaining choice woods and materials for cuemaking is simple: "I want the very best available and I'm willing to pay for it."
Knowledge and state-of-the-art machinery enables Prewitt to fashion cues of distinctive design, performance, and quality. Ed Prewitt cues are known for their natural balance, responsiveness, and sheer beauty. For the player and, or collector, there's nothing like an Ed Prewitt cue.
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🎈Andy Gilbert 8 Points🎈
- By R2PQZ
- Cue & Case Gallery
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Not just beautiful cues. Some history for icing on the cake. Thanks for sharing.Andy Gilbert 8 Points
2024 Build
Tulipwood into Ebony 8 Points
Abalone Dots in the rings
Forearm
Clover inlays at the top of each Point
Silver Dot in the center of each Clover
White Notched Diamond in the bottom of each long Point
Clover Topped Gun Sight in the bottom of each short Point
Butt Sleeve
4x4 White Notched Diamonds/Drammed Array
Clover Topped Barbells with Silver Dot in the Center of each Clover
Genuine Black EE Wrap
Delrin Butt Capp
2 13 mm shafts
3/8x10 Pin
Andy knocked it out of the park. I designed the cue and he took all my suggestions and did just a few little changes. It turned out gorgeous. The workmanship is fantastic as always in Andy's cues.
Beside Andy and Vicki i have to thank Sean Brown who made this possible and was more than helpful as always.
When great people are involved, the result is always outstanding!
Enjoy the photos
🎈Joel Hercek Gold & Ivory🎈
- By ivicafranic
- Cue & Case Gallery
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Joel Hercek4 Points Ebony into BEM. Solid natural joint with 5/16x14 pin. All white is natural, yellow inlays are 18K gold. The wrap is real ee.
If you are positive, immaculate in search and dedicated, sometimes you get really lucky
. Not much introduction is needed when it comes to Joel's work.
In handcraft there is no such a thing as perfection but this is the closest to perfection a person ever comes!
A tastefully designed and perfectly executed!
Better and more close up photos are coming soon!
Enjoy!
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🎈Joel Hercek Gambler🎈
- By ivicafranic
- Cue & Case Gallery
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Joel Hercek Gambler Cue4 Points Ebony into Maple
3x8x10pin
Mother of Pearl inlays
Joel's work is really something else. Always classy, never overdone, aestethically pleasing and flawless in every way.
His workmanship is out of this world. He says there is no perfection but for me this is pure perfection.
There are lots of Gambler Style cues but this one is my favorite.
Had lucky to add it to my collection.
Enjoy!
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🎈Hercek🎈
- By ivicafranic
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Hercek 4 Points
Cocobolo into BEM
Pin: 5/16x14
Joint: Ivory
2 13mm Shafts, Ivory Ferrules
Inlays: Ivory Diamonds and Dots
Butt Cap: Ivory
Wrap: White Linen
One more Joel Hercek cue added to my collection. Quite old but still classy thanks to timeless design.
The cue is perfect and like it was built yesterday.
Joel's work is always perfect and i find his cues one of the best cues ever built considering construction techniques, quality of build, playabiltiy, balance in combination of having an incredible sense of aesthetics.
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🎈Craig Petersen🎈
- By ivicafranic
- Cue & Case Gallery
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Craig PetersenThis is a highly rare 6 point with recut short points by late Craig Petersen. I was really lucky to add this extremely desirable, rare and collectable cue to my collection!
Specs:
Weight: 19.5 oz
Length: 58″
Joint: 5/16-18
Shafts: 13 mm
Inlays: Ivory
Wrap: EE Leather
About Craig PetersenCraig Petersen started making cues as a teenager around 1963. He had learned to play pool at the YMCA in Evanston, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. He soon became fascinated with cues, and started doing repairs in a local pool room. Soon, he had a full service shop in that room, but later ended up working in the cue department at Brunswick.
In 1967, Craig got married and moved to California. He was away from cuemaking for the next eight years, returning to Chicago in 1975. For the next ten years, Craig worked off and on for some of the top Chicago area cuemakers.
In 1985, he opened a shop of his own in Bartlett, Illinois. This shop relocated to Addison, Illinois in 1988, and to Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1990. Craig died unexpectedly in 1992, at the age of 46, having made less than one thousand cues. At the time of his death, Craig was in the process of completing his first five-point cue.
Today, Craig Petersen cues are sought after by cue collectors around the world. Later cues are easily identifiable by a "C.P." logo on their butt caps. Craig was famous for extremely sharp and even points. Also, he had a talent for getting inlays, rings, and points to line up perfectly. This was amazing, considering that all work was done by hand with very little equipment. Cues with piloted joints have very thick joints, usually of stainless steel, with very thin pilots.
Craig was a very influential cuemaker whose designs bridged the gap between traditional cues and cutting edge contemporary inlay patterns. Craig's design and construction influence can be seen in many of today's cues and he had a profound direct influence on the early work of Joe Gold of Cognoscenti Cues because of his having trained Joe in the late 1980s.
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🎈Andy Gilbert 8 Points🎈
- By ivicafranic
- Cue & Case Gallery
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Andy Gilbert 8 Points 2024 Build Tulipwood into Ebony 8 Points
Abalone Dots in the rings
Forearm
Clover inlays at the top of each Point
Silver Dot in the center of each Clover
White Notched Diamond in the bottom of each long Point
Clover Topped Gun Sight in the bottom of each short Point
Butt Sleeve
4x4 White Notched Diamonds/Drammed Array
Clover Topped Barbells with Silver Dot in the Center of each Clover
Genuine Black EE Wrap
Delrin Butt Capp
2 13 mm shafts
3/8x10 Pin
Andy knocked it out of the park. I designed the cue and he took all my suggestions and did just a few little changes. It turned out gorgeous. The workmanship is fantastic as always in Andy's cues.Beside Andy and Vicki i have to thank Sean Brown who made this possible and was more than helpful as always.
When great people are involved, the result is always outstanding!
Enjoy the photos
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🎈PK Cody Cash....6 apointa🎈
- By ivicafranic
- Cue & Case Gallery
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Thank you. It is just a very small part of my collection actually
Tulipwood and Ebony for Father's Day
- By R2PQZ
- Cue & Case Gallery
- 9 Replies
I started doing repairs in 1979. Then building in 1983. Seen a lot of Hueblers. The 211 club where I worked was a dealer for Huebler.They are like Doritos. LOL! Can't eat just one.
The values have gotten crazy these days.
Preferences vary, but I think it's hard to deny he made good cues. I think he definitely had distinctive designs.
And he definitely did it "his way" with success.
Interesting to me as well is that he was not a pool player.
More than one has said they wish they had bout a few when they were cheap.
When I was young and recently got my Joss, I remember arguing with a close friend. He said his grandfather and his dad said Huebler cues were the best. I had not even heard of Huebler. His said his grandfather had one, but I never saw it. I never even met his grandfather.
That guy later got into Meucci, and was a prominent local league player. I think he still plays with a Meucci.
I talked to him a few years ago for the first time in something like 30 years. Of course, the cues came up. Yup, we argued a little, but it was friendly. I told him I had more than a few Huebler cues and that made him feel better.
His cues were always built with first class components. Never saw one with any warpage.
Tulipwood and Ebony for Father's Day
- By R2PQZ
- Cue & Case Gallery
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That's what she said!Old Wood hits good.