To Mr Wadsworth and Dieckman
To Mr. Wadsworth
"I also wonder why it is suddenly ok to bulld a 3C Billiard Cue with a stainless steel pin when no "self-respecting 3C player" would own a billiard cue with anything but a wood pin?"
This is the only quote I have read from Mr. Wadsworth that I find faulty. My reply is to publish two pictures of a Dieckman cue:
With cue#1, Dieckman was using a steele pin. There is nothing
"sudden"about 29 years in my opinion. So if you are about the facts, chew on that evidence.
To Mr. Dieckman
Be careful about your creativity. A clever reference intended to say "your comments are propiganda" can sound like an anti-semetic characterization.
You are not Dieckman in this thread, not entirely by my reconning. You are speaking for the USBA when you address its needs publicly. Your intended meaning was lost, at least for a mutt like me, and I fear, many others.
To BOTH OF YOU
As a young 3C player and cue collector, I love this idea and I sincerely hope that many cue builders choose to participate. The web site link will be valuable to me, and I will certainly have a good excuse to do business with any cuemaker who supports the growth of Billiards in America.
To that end, I encourage Mr. Wadsworth to build a cue. Don't support Dieckman, support the growth of a fine sport. If you build a simple cue that meets the the needs of billiard play, and inlay a red, yellow and white shark on the butt sleeve, I will be making a fair offer when it becomes available.