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🎈John Bender Honduran Rosewood 4 Points 🎈

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🔥John Bender🔥

John just finished me 6 cues and this is one of these 6. It turned out beautiful and John was fantastic to deal with as he always is.

♦️You will be able to see more of his work at this year's ICCS Show in Chattanooga, TN at the historic Read House hotel.

📍Inspiration for this one was one of my Tascarella cues!

📍Specs:

4 Point Honduran Rosewood in A+ Birdseye Maple Nose
Classic MOP Slotted Diamond and Dot Inlay Pattern in Points and Sleeve
Ebony and Nickel Silver Rings with MOP Dots Surround Wrap
Black, Green, Orange and Natural Veneer
5/16x14 Stainles Steel Joint 030 NS Ring
Butt: 15.7 oz
Shaft 1: 4.1 oz
Shaft 2: 4.1 oz
Premium Italian Brown Lizard wrap
White Delrin Butt with Engraved John K Bender
Weight Bolt: at .45

📍Enjoy the photos!!!😃📍
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🎈John Bender Bolivian Rosewood🎈

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🔥 John Bender Cues🔥

4 Points Bolivian Rosewood into BEM
4 Bolivian Rosewood Points w/Faux Ivory Diamond Inlays
Mahogany Alder Mahogany Alder Veneers
21 Box Maple and Black Ring at JT
6 Maple Windows w/Faux Ivory Diamonds in 3"
Bolivian Rosewood Sleeve with 2 Stich Rings
Ferrules: Arvorin
Mahogany w Black Specs Linen Wrap
5/16-14 Steel JT
Engraved 227 JKB Under Bumper
Wrap: Linen
Length: 58"
Butt: 15.3oz
Shaft1: 4.0, 13 mm
Shaft 2: 4.0, 13 mm
Pin: 5/16x14 Steel JT
Condition: New


⭐️🎈About John Bender🎈⭐️

Started hitting balls around age 12. Played as much as 7 to 9 hours a day 360 days a year. Plenty of tournament action, etc.... Eventually in 1988 started selling cues for/with Richard Black around the country and he started mentoring him in making cues around year 2000. Richard said him couldn't keep up the playing schedule but cues were a good direction to go. So here he is 24 years later with a shop full of machine and sawdust everywhere :-).
But happy doing it. John's cues are based in the very traditional styles of Black, Balabushka, Palmer, Paradise, etc.
But he does stray into making cues that are artful and interesting. However, the main objective is and will always be making a strong, solid playable cue. After that looks are the fun part.
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650 Fargo Quits Six Figure Job to Pursue Pro Pool Dream...or YouTube Fame?

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"Forty" Rob Hart did this. I know him fairly well from Philly from the late 90's, before his brother made it. He was a strong local player then, maybe a Low A or high B+ by the old gambling system. When his brother became a millionaire movie star, Forty made pool his primary focus. He played in every pro event, even several of the international ones. He went to professional instructors all over the country. The thing is, if he comes to Philly now, his pecking order hasn't changed.

Can't beat genetics.
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🎈Bob Owen🎈

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🔥Bob Owen🔥

4 Points
Ebony into Ebony
Veneers in yellow, black and yellow
Highly decorated rings in Mike Bender Style
Boxes in the buttsleeve
Wrap: Elephant ear
Delrin butt cap
Pin: 5/6x14
Butt: 15.35 oz
Micarta Ferulles


Bob knocked it out of the park and his workmanship has been amazing for years and still getting better and better with every next cue. Not many are aware of how complex and demanding this design is to be executed.

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650 Fargo Quits Six Figure Job to Pursue Pro Pool Dream...or YouTube Fame?

iusedtoberich
Jimmorrison said:
How much will he improve? How far can he push his Fargo? If you quit your job and did nothing but try to improve your game, how far could you push yours. I know it’s just a guess, but I think you have some insight on this.
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Well his robustness is low. But assuming it was 1000 robustness, I'd say 15 points max. A person with a 650 rating didn't just wake up and get it. He already worked at it for quite some time.
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🎈Bill Webb🎈

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R2PQZ said:
Bill was a glazier by trade. In the eighties he left Seattle and ended up in Texas. While there he would visit Richard Black in his shop. That sparked his interest in building cues. I shipped him a Titlist which he soaked in a bathtub to disassemble. He learned a lot from that. After a few years in Texas he came back to Seattle. He and I tried to build cues together. Unfortunately that didn't work out. He tried working with several others in the area. He got together with Dave Jones and called their cues Finish Line. After a few years they split up. From there Bill went on to learn from other great cue builders around the country. Eventually he moved Costa Rica to be with a girlfriend. He would call occasionally. Somehow he ended up in Columbia and owned a pool hall. 6 tables and slot machines in the back room. He ran tournaments and won every one of them. Soon he had to quit playing. His players refused to play if he played. That was the last I heard from him. Read about his death on azb.
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Thank you for sharing this!
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650 Fargo Quits Six Figure Job to Pursue Pro Pool Dream...or YouTube Fame?

Jimmorrison
mikepage said:
Yes, and maybe maybe we should not think of this effort that many of us will enjoy following as being just about him (or his chances of success or his motivations).
What if it plays a role in inspiring others who have a bigger chance?
What if we enjoy the journey?
What if it inspires us to try to go from 450 to 500 or 600 to 650?

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I agree, and wish him the best.
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650 Fargo Quits Six Figure Job to Pursue Pro Pool Dream...or YouTube Fame?

Jimmorrison
iusedtoberich said:
The guy has no chance in hell. I watched the video when it came out a week or two ago. I recall he had been playing since he was a kid. If he hasn't reached a pro level until now, he never will.
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How much will he improve? How far can he push his Fargo? If you quit your job and did nothing but try to improve your game, how far could you push yours. I know it’s just a guess, but I think you have some insight on this.
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🎈Bill Webb🎈

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🔥Bill Webb🔥

Snakewood into Curly Maple
3/8x10 pin
Linen wrap
Unplayed

🎈About Billy Webb🎈

🧶 Well, Billy Web known on AZ Billiards as Spiderweb is is one of my favorite cue makers.
I tried, had and have cues from all the makers and can say without any doubt that his cues are one of the best playing cues i have ever tried. Amazingly consistent so if you like one, you will like them all. They have medium stiff hit that is more on stiff side and are balanced perfectly.
I see lots of cues that have a huge amount of followers that can't even get in the same sentence with Billy's cues. That's how great they are.
People tell me lots of times....it would look nicer with a leather wrap or you should have changed the wrap on this one into leather or i would replace it with a leather wrap. But, Bill liked using linen and they look great with linen. Linen was his trademark along with butterfly points in his late cues so, no, i won't change a wrap on any of them nor would i suggest you to do that if you have hs cue.
They are perfect exactly like they are.

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Billy Webb, has worked for many years on perfecting his cue making abilities. He was a very humble individual who rarely tut-es his own horn, and this more than anything has prevented him from receiving the recognition he greatly deserves. Billy built his cues along the lines and using the parabolic taper developed by David Paul Kersenbrock and also used in South West and Bender Custom Cues.

He mostly built cues that have six points three high and three low with Veneers in most cases. However, over the years he has been perfecting Butterfly Spliced cues in addition to his six point cues. The Butterfly Spliced cues that Billy built are very unique and include a combination of standard points in conjunction with Butterfly points. Very few cue makers can make cues that are even similar to these Butterfly cues due to the overlapping veneers form Butterfly Splice to Butterfly Splice.
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Bill was a glazier by trade. In the eighties he left Seattle and ended up in Texas. While there he would visit Richard Black in his shop. That sparked his interest in building cues. I shipped him a Titlist which he soaked in a bathtub to disassemble. He learned a lot from that. After a few years in Texas he came back to Seattle. He and I tried to build cues together. Unfortunately that didn't work out. He tried working with several others in the area. He got together with Dave Jones and called their cues Finish Line. After a few years they split up. From there Bill went on to learn from other great cue builders around the country. Eventually he moved Costa Rica to be with a girlfriend. He would call occasionally. Somehow he ended up in Columbia and owned a pool hall. 6 tables and slot machines in the back room. He ran tournaments and won every one of them. Soon he had to quit playing. His players refused to play if he played. That was the last I heard from him. Read about his death on azb.
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