Ringwork
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They are inlays
If they are inlayed.
Nick
If they are inlayed.
Nick
Stitch, dash, veneer, etc. rings are very much inlays. They're not decals.
A slot is milled and the INLAY strip is hand-fitted & glued into the slot.
If that's not inlay, I don't know what is.
However, a single, double or even triple metal, plastic, wood or whatever ring is not
inlaid. It's a simple deco-ring that is part of the 'stack' that makes up the joint
collar, butt sleeve/cap or possibly even the 'A' joint.
No offense to 'The Book' but theirs is only one opinion. Just like mine.
If they don't want to count dashes in ring-work, it's their prerogative. It's their book.
KJ
A slot is milled and the INLAY strip is hand-fitted & glued into the slot.
If that's not inlay, I don't know what is.
However, a single, double or even triple metal, plastic, wood or whatever ring is not
inlaid. It's a simple deco-ring that is part of the 'stack' that makes up the joint
collar, butt sleeve/cap or possibly even the 'A' joint.
No offense to 'The Book' but theirs is only one opinion. Just like mine.
If they don't want to count dashes in ring-work, it's their prerogative. It's their book.
KJ
I don't know... I see it as kind of a gray area. Ringwork like that could just as reasonably be considered intarsia.
However, I imagine the Blue Book editors had to come up with a consistent manner of "grading" the level of cues, and one could easily nitpick all day long about what is or is not to be counted as an "inlay". I mean, are the veneers surrounding a V-point inlays? If so, is each individual color of veneer counted as a separate inlay? How about each half of a single point... is the left side counted as 4 inlays (four layered veneers) and the right side another 4 inlays?
If so, then by that rationale a "plain jane" four-point full-spliced cue with a 12-repeat "stitched" ring at both the front and back would be categorized as having 60 inlays - 4 prongs, each with four veneers "inlaid" onto each side of the point (so 12 total inlays per point) plus the individual stitches of each ring.
Unfortunately, a good percentage of the audience those books are meant for would look at that cue and say, "60 inlays? Where the **** are they?"
TW
I might think that the difference would be in that intarsia work appears to be done on a
flat surface while a ring-billet is slotted and an inlay is set into a pocket.
I could see if you were doing an intarsia and you saved the very last piece to place in
the center of a particular area then yes, that one piece could be considered to be an
inlay because it is set into a pocket created by it's surrounding pieces.
Could I be missing something in the intarsia reference?
KJ
Stitched rings or inlays?
Here is my latest cue. I asked the cuemaker to copy his stitched rings as part of the gunsights, so should these be counted as a inlay?
Here is my latest cue. I asked the cuemaker to copy his stitched rings as part of the gunsights, so should these be counted as a inlay?
