Why Dieckman Does Not Use IVORY

i didn't read the whole link, but I also support NOT to use ivory on cues (actually on anything) since the sources of it is really not good.
 
billiardshot said:
Why Dieckman Does Not Use IVORY! If you would like to know click link below and readzzzz.

http://www.cuemaker.com/IVORY.htm
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I gotta give credit where it's due, I'm actually glad to have guys like Dieckman around. If not for characters like him, it would be a dull world. I don't think that story will have any impact on my ivory inlays and joints, though.


Steve
 
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Dainese 919, after read the whole link everyone should feel the same about not using ivory. and if you do a research you will see and read "How True" it was.
 
Here's a link to well known cue maker Thomas Wayne's argument many years ago on the other side of this issue:

So the issue is probably not black and white.

That said, I'm a no-ivory person. I have no need for it. And I have no desire for it, on the chance that the continued use of it could lead to bad things.
 
I won't have ivory on any of my cues either and it is because it is impossible to know how it was harvested. Personally I think mother of pearl looks way better.
 
That was hard to read - the yellow font on black as well as the writing style - so I gave up, but personally I love the look of white holly and will never request ivory in any cue of mine.
 
Sweet Marissa said:
That was hard to read - the yellow font on black as well as the writing style - so I gave up, but personally I love the look of white holly and will never request ivory in any cue of mine.
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i couldn't make it through it either. (thinks maybe they should have proof read a little)
 
When I visited Dennis a few weeks ago he printed out this story for me. I read it on my way back home. Emailed him that I had some ivory from my mothers jewelery and was throwing it out, and did. Figured she would have done the same had she read it herself.

Think of the needless loss of life. Not just the elephants but our GI's All for a trophy tusk. Sick

Sure there's other arguments but why risk it. You'll never know how it was obtained.
 
Yeah, it is terrible. Anyone who has some of that awful stuff, just send it to me and I will get rid of it properly.
 
I happen to like Ivory and so does my cue for that matter. I could not read the link beucse it would not open up. But it goes both ways why its not good becuse the way it was harvested and what not. I wonder if this guy is sticking up for very very rare woods the same way he is talking about Ivory. Same thing thing right Ivory and very very rare woods ?
 
The rare exotic woods used in cues doesn't grow in the pine forests of Georgia either. Much of it is harvested from soon to be extinct trees.
 
3kushn said:
When I visited Dennis a few weeks ago he printed out this story for me. I read it on my way back home. Emailed him that I had some ivory from my mothers jewelery and was throwing it out, and did. Figured she would have done the same had she read it herself.

Think of the needless loss of life. Not just the elephants but our GI's All for a trophy tusk. Sick

Sure there's other arguments but why risk it. You'll never know how it was obtained.
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Since you were able to read the story, could you relay it to the rest of us? Thanks :)
 
If you would like to read the draft Dieckman sent on April 05, 2009, for me to read.

PM me your email. More easy to read

Draft is 7 pages. Plus two refer links from me, mention The military killing Asian Elephants, because they were use for transport.
 
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