wouldnt this look great in a design as a cue inlay???
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just this part of the design about3/8" wide and2 1/2" long in a butt or floating as boxes--- with any design but just do the miter work small and tight would this be too much to possibly do on that small of a scale???I talked to 4 world class cuemakers and all said not possible! all these veneer guys if they can do it on a big humidor or jewelry box can it be done on a tiny cue?? here is a full
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It would make a great cue Bill I hope you can find somebody to do it
IMHO the veneers in the two cues look way better than the arches in the original post.
Bill,
Hi Bill,
Just wondering..
The full example you show has one side arch , splicing into the other side arch piece.
Is that what you're looking for?
Or, you would want it to be full, separate veneers (in half, of course)
"Unbroken down the sides?"
Basically, like a "Drop-in" inlay assembly?
Alton :smile:
Hi Bill,
Just wondering..
The full example you show has one side arch , splicing into the other side arch piece.
Is that what you're looking for?
Or, you would want it to be full, separate veneers (in half, of course)
"Unbroken down the sides?"
Basically, like a "Drop-in" inlay assembly?
Alton :smile:
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good eye alton a drop in would be easy! Iam wanting more from a cue and its maker...LOL i just thought that this would bee cool and it has to be executed flawlessly blown up to tikkler standards! so i 60x these miter!more to come
ok ,, every one keeps blowing up my in box here alton ! This is the design i was looking for but it was just delivered.... i get alot of cues each week and every once in a while i am floored! this is one of those times ! this is just too hard to wrap your mind around and still get it to work!
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Wow.....more pics please
I love the inlay design of that rendering of the cue but I don't like the grapes design , I think they make it looked too cluttered
I think some scrimshaw would look perfect
Chris
I think some scrimshaw would look perfect
Chris
what your seeing is so blown up, it has well over 2000 inlays and a wrap less spider zircote handle. the grapes are made of mastodon ivory ,turquoise ,red fire opals, lapis azule yes up close it might look cluttered but these inlays are about the size of a sewing needle eye!!! i was trying to show you in my opinion the best veneer work of any cue to date! ( and that is a tall statement) but i have seen what alot of people tout as great veneer work and it does not hold a candle to this! and not to many people are qualified to stand behind that statement . but I figured i have seen and held more cues than 99% of the population ! the cue also has silver wire rings that are interlaced with ivory and are waving by the weight of the tiny grapes like in a vineyard and are falling thru the handle....so when you see a complete cue pic and know what type of work went into this it is much more respected! to have the veneer work meet up in a perfect motion of inter lacing points twisting over and under each other flawlessly to meet up and make beautiful points is just unheard of by anyone so far! also it is 7 veneer
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oh wow.. i didnt realize it was pictures of a cue already made.. i thought maybe it was a graphic drawing to get peoples attention.. looks like its pretty sweet..
sorry i like the idea, not a huge fan of the grapes, i also dont like the brown handle.. ivory would have looked amazing...
chris
sorry i like the idea, not a huge fan of the grapes, i also dont like the brown handle.. ivory would have looked amazing...
chris
This thread is funny as hell. It's a pretty cue. Sure. I'm shocked some people couldn't tell that your close ups weren't from an already-existing cue.
That said, I like the overlapping of the veneers from oval to point to oval, etc.. The overall design to me is... Ok. Not sure I like the handle or the grapes, etc.. As far as the mitre work and the arched veneers goes, I'm not sure why any cue maker would tell you it can't be done. Richard Black (who I suspect made this cue) has done it before. You should know. You sold a Black with oval shaped/arched veneer "points". Thomas Wayne could probably pull it off without a problem. I'm sure dozens of cue makers could. I could swear I've seen a Gracio with a similar arched veneer design.
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Bill
Did you say that the wavy silver in the ringwork is interlacing with the wavy ivory in the ringwork? As in overlapping? I'd like to see closeup of that, to do that tight is tricky! Doing it loose with the inlays obviously starting and stopping "as in not really touching each other at the seams" would be fairly easy.
Nice job Thomas
Bill
Did you say that the wavy silver in the ringwork is interlacing with the wavy ivory in the ringwork? As in overlapping? I'd like to see closeup of that, to do that tight is tricky! Doing it loose with the inlays obviously starting and stopping "as in not really touching each other at the seams" would be fairly easy.
Nice job Thomas