For Laurie it IS about Jerry’s legacy. For Jerry it was passion first, $ second. He never tried to make maximum $ or profits. It was deeper than that.
He could have expanded, he chose not to expand and went into “fancy” cues. Which was his direction when he passed away(1000% unexpected).
Laurie took the reins and didn’t change one thing-she kept Jerry’s legacy as it was. She never tried to expand or crank up production.
It was not an exercise in capitalism. Neither is Barry Szamboti or Tony at Black Boar. Cuetec is capitalism.
Custom cue makers are not capitalists, they are artists for the most part.
What’s important here is Laurie has maintained Jerry’s legacy to this very day and hasn’t went off the script once. She held up strong as anyone could. Through raising their family, her own health struggles and kept the cue biz alive and well the whole time in Jerry’s fashion-which wasn’t about maximum profits.
That’s how it’s played out, I’ve had a front row seat personally on this long before Jerry passed. He was my friend, a great man and had deep passion for woods and cues. We used to talk about how different woods reacted in cues and other deep conversations about technical stuff. We read books together he had(no internet then). I remember the first time I showed up at SW(4/5 years before I moved to town).
That little house is still there, I still have my first Sw I paid $350 for and waited from July 1st(I remember cause it was my dads birthday & I bought myself a cue) until mid April for that cue. Same list that still exists today. I’ve been in that list lots of times. That’s a honor. And nope I don’t flip my SW’s and yes I have a stack of them. It’s not about $.
SW is near and dear to my heart. Always has been, always will be.
Fatboy<——-wiping tears out of my eyes
