The Old Jaybird
Well-known member
don't have to feed it either, or watch "chick" flicks, you can pee off the back porch and scratch where it itches too.
Why, other than vanity?
- Thread starter Shooter08
- Start date
Live by the cue, die by
Having a cue built can be agony or ecstasy. The cue maker will determine that, not you.
Once you place your order, you are captive so make sure you entrust your happiness &
satisfaction to someone that’s earned laudable praise from their customers & you’ve seen
their workmanship so you are absolutely convinced their cue making skills are truly superior.
How long it takes depends on how soon the cue maker can start. The programming part can
be squeezed in whenever there’s an opening in his schedule. The complexity of the cue design
and whether the cue maker has previously made cues with similar inlays will decide how much
programming time is required. Custom cue designs are not made using a free hand design so
often a lot of the programming needed for your cue design was already previously undertaken.
Then comes the construction and high quality cue making should pass the test of time & remain
pristine down through the decades. Yes, I said decades. My Runde Schon was completed in
early 1985 and that cue is immaculate and all of the shafts are straight. The Cortland linen wrap
has held up and the finish is still shiny and glossy. The darn cue looks amazing for being almost
4 decades old. It turned into a closet queen pool cue in 2005 after being dethroned by my TS cue.
After the cue maker selects the wood for your cue, this is when the ecstasy part begins if you have
a cue maker that cares. I should post some progress photos Bob Owen sent to keep me apprised
of how my cue was coming along. And he was always available to eagerly & enthusiastically discuss
my cue underway. He made me feel like I was his most important customer and went out of his way
to keep me updated about how my cue was coming along. You can’t attach a price to being updated.
There are other cue makers that update their clients periodically about theit pool cue underway. The ones
that do a good job of communicating with you throughout the cue build, well, they’re why having a custom
cue build can become your ecstasy like experience. However, there are some cue makers that are almost
arrogant like, as if they are doing you a favor accepting your money to build you a cue. Now those are the
cue makers that will damn well turn your new custom cue build into an agonizing experience. You will never
stop wondering and worrying because of unreturned phone calls and voice messages or their curt demeanor
when you do get to speak with them. So a cue maker decides whether you get the agony or ecstasy outcome.
Once you place your order, you are captive so make sure you entrust your happiness &
satisfaction to someone that’s earned laudable praise from their customers & you’ve seen
their workmanship so you are absolutely convinced their cue making skills are truly superior.
How long it takes depends on how soon the cue maker can start. The programming part can
be squeezed in whenever there’s an opening in his schedule. The complexity of the cue design
and whether the cue maker has previously made cues with similar inlays will decide how much
programming time is required. Custom cue designs are not made using a free hand design so
often a lot of the programming needed for your cue design was already previously undertaken.
Then comes the construction and high quality cue making should pass the test of time & remain
pristine down through the decades. Yes, I said decades. My Runde Schon was completed in
early 1985 and that cue is immaculate and all of the shafts are straight. The Cortland linen wrap
has held up and the finish is still shiny and glossy. The darn cue looks amazing for being almost
4 decades old. It turned into a closet queen pool cue in 2005 after being dethroned by my TS cue.
After the cue maker selects the wood for your cue, this is when the ecstasy part begins if you have
a cue maker that cares. I should post some progress photos Bob Owen sent to keep me apprised
of how my cue was coming along. And he was always available to eagerly & enthusiastically discuss
my cue underway. He made me feel like I was his most important customer and went out of his way
to keep me updated about how my cue was coming along. You can’t attach a price to being updated.
There are other cue makers that update their clients periodically about theit pool cue underway. The ones
that do a good job of communicating with you throughout the cue build, well, they’re why having a custom
cue build can become your ecstasy like experience. However, there are some cue makers that are almost
arrogant like, as if they are doing you a favor accepting your money to build you a cue. Now those are the
cue makers that will damn well turn your new custom cue build into an agonizing experience. You will never
stop wondering and worrying because of unreturned phone calls and voice messages or their curt demeanor
when you do get to speak with them. So a cue maker decides whether you get the agony or ecstasy outcome.
not sure on the rules. If you get cremated with it I wonder if when you get to the other side that you find your shaft has become “torrified” because you chose the oven route?
Either way you get burned. Get the shaft. That’s life ..I mean death. One thing for sure nobody gets out of the world alive.
Is that Confucius?
A buddy has it in his will he's to be buried in a Valley barbox.
Coin?
The fish know. And they fear you. Don’t let them off the hook. No pun
Somehow the Fish missed the Memo. Brian.
A lot of time & very tedious labor was involved making my cues. Bob Owen provided me with lots of progress photos.
If the cue maker genuinely cares about his craft, & his clients, when he builds you a cue, it will be the ectasy outcome,
The photos are my last two customs expeditiously completed and arrived one month before the 7/1/16 ivory ban.
Bob made the peacock cue & Jerry R. made the TS tribute cue. Both cues turned out absolutely magniificent, IMO.
If the cue maker genuinely cares about his craft, & his clients, when he builds you a cue, it will be the ectasy outcome,
The photos are my last two customs expeditiously completed and arrived one month before the 7/1/16 ivory ban.
Bob made the peacock cue & Jerry R. made the TS tribute cue. Both cues turned out absolutely magniificent, IMO.
Attachments
Last edited:
I believe Richard Riggie was too. It was a Scruggs.
That's what Louis Ulrich did. He had Dave Whitsell make a clone of his southwest, taper, weight balance etc, and had it painted a flourescent yellow. Ugly as sin, but played how he liked it.
Jaden
Wow!!!