Pushing the Limits Further... Victorian II

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the_general

I love Ivory.
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This truly handmade cue is for a good man from England. Mervin (Bebot's son who is in-charge of the inlays) never ceases to push his limits to create nice cues like this one... the white point/inlay is in one-piece , and not separate pieces put together like jigsaw puzzle just to form the "victorian" design.


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even without CNC, he tries so hard to make the inlays and points as symmetric and centered as it can possibly be.


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*Sidenote:

although phi ebony is already hard to source out here in our country, the massive ebony wood block (where the cue above is resting) is one of three blocks we have on stock.


thanks for looking. :)
 
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the_general said:
many thanks sir. we try to humbly show that despite our limitations in modern equipment, we can still come up with works of art. :smile:
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Man you guys are the nuts ..
I love see the hard work you put in your cues..
 
Realizm said:
Man you guys are the nuts ..
I love see the hard work you put in your cues..
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thanks sir. by 2010, we will have more designs (already ordered) that will come out which i myself is amazed how he does it by hand.

if my finances will be okay, i will order another cue for myself, a floating 11-pointer cue. points are not overlapping and not touching the handle area (as like a typical point) as those are much easier to do for mervin. as it is a common knowledge an odd-numbered points are not as easy to make than even-numbered points because of the measurement around the forearm. moreso, there will be no CNC for this to measure easily the distances between the points. i want to squeeze his amazing talent further. points will also have curves, not just ordinary triangular points. :grin:

i know and firmly believe he can do it with a few sweats... he told me he can do it. all i need to have is the funds. :wink:
 
thats a monster piece of ebony, wow.

You know I'm old school and while CNC can create just about what the mind can concieve there is something heart warming about hand made cues that really really attracts me to them, CNC is cold, make a drawing, calculations, clamp in the blank, flip a switch. wait. repete as necessary.

So who is the better CNC cue maker?, the more artistic guy who can get his fancy CNC machine to do more things than a guy like me who can only draw stick figures. My point is CNC isnt cue making its computer drawing. Black Boar builds great cues that happen to have great artistry on them. So not all CNC guys are just artists,

But back to my point, Knowing that a man sat there for hours doing his absolute best work-even thought it isnt 100% symetrical is alot more appealing to me, the time he spent with that cue in his hands is great its warm, programming a computer and flipping a switch just aint it.


For you CNC cue guys I still admire what you do with your tools, and I love your work too, please dont take this thread as a knock-i know it sounds like one. But it isnt. I just admire the old school way more thats all. I have a Gus with hearts on it, all 4 of them look different and thats what makes it cool.


Just my monday opinion,
 
I'm new to doing inlay work. I have a manual pantomill from Chris Hightower, and I still wouldn't attempt something like this.
Very nice work as usual.
HOLY EBONY!!!:eek:
 
Fatboy said:
thats a monster piece of ebony, wow.

You know I'm old school and while CNC can create just about what the mind can concieve there is something heart warming about hand made cues that really really attracts me to them, CNC is cold, make a drawing, calculations, clamp in the blank, flip a switch. wait. repete as necessary.

So who is the better CNC cue maker?, the more artistic guy who can get his fancy CNC machine to do more things than a guy like me who can only draw stick figures. My point is CNC isnt cue making its computer drawing. Black Boar builds great cues that happen to have great artistry on them. So not all CNC guys are just artists,

But back to my point, Knowing that a man sat there for hours doing his absolute best work-even thought it isnt 100% symetrical is alot more appealing to me, the time he spent with that cue in his hands is great its warm, programming a computer and flipping a switch just aint it.


For you CNC cue guys I still admire what you do with your tools, and I love your work too, please dont take this thread as a knock-i know it sounds like one. But it isnt. I just admire the old school way more thats all. I have a Gus with hearts on it, all 4 of them look different and thats what makes it cool.


Just my monday opinion,
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many thanks for your kind words sir. but you know, we also dream of having a CNC, but not for inlays - as we will still maintain doing things by hand, but at least for turning blocks of wood easily... because at bebot, everything is by hand, even the shaping of 2x2 and 1x1 wood squares to make them forearms/handle/buttsleeve/coring/shafts etc. CNC is a great machine, no doubt - as it makes things a lot easier IMO. but for the artwork (inlays/designs) we still go for handmade. i'm no hypocrite by saying "even if we have the most advanced CNC available to make intricate designs, we will still do it by hand... because that is the 'value' of our cues - the human touch and the passion of the heart who made it."


Happy New Year to all of you guys!
 
Cheez Dawg said:
I'm new to doing inlay work. I have a manual pantomill from Chris Hightower, and I still wouldn't attempt something like this.
Very nice work as usual.
HOLY EBONY!!!:eek:
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hi sir! i'm sure you will find it exciting experimenting on your machine and discover how many wonderful things you could do with it.

show us what you've been creating sir!

yeah, even i wouldn't believe it... the ebony. we have 3 of them that size... and a 12-ft block (same width & height) also about to be delivered. :eek:

we love our own wood. :grin:
 
I'm not a cuemaker by any means and I could tell those inlays were done by hand which is simply AMAZING! I saw a minor flaw but I'd rather have flaws and done by hand than CNC.

Your inlay is the nuts.:thumbup:
 
powerlineman80 said:
I'm not a cuemaker by any means and I could tell those inlays were done by hand which is simply AMAZING! I saw a minor flaw but I'd rather have flaws and done by hand than CNC.

Your inlay is the nuts.:thumbup:
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many thanks sir. and i couldn't agree with you more. ;)
 
POWER. is all I can say... I have never seen any other cuemaker(if there is any other, my apologies) that done these with tools by HANDS. That's why there's orders from me for them. :D
 
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