What surprises me is there are cue makers that can see there’s interest in SP cues, and for discussion sake only
let’s put a price of $500 or less, but no one has expressed interest in tackling this. I’d make a limited run of SP cues
if I was a cue maker. I’d call them SPAZ cues and limit the first attempt to 25 cues (numbered) and set a max. price of under $600 delivered. I would make the cues look distinctively handsome but without being fancy. The customer should be able to specify the weight, shaft size and taper. And for production consistency, I suppose the joints all should be the same. My preference is a big pin wood to wood but whatever the cue maker preferred would probably be fine. The cue maker needs to match shafts that have a weight of at least 3.75 ozs but nothing lighter. A good weight is at least 4 ozs. and obviously a really thin diameter shaft would weigh less. The cue maker needs to be able to use seasoned wood which could be why this idea never got off the ground. When I was discussing this with Jerry R., that wasn’t going to be a problem and the price we had been kicking around was under $1k for a ltd. run of 12 cues. Know what? Sooner or later I hope some ambitious cue maker will see this as a great way to call attention to their cue making even though it’s only a SP style. With the right wood choices and finish, the SP cues could turn out to be very handsome.
let’s put a price of $500 or less, but no one has expressed interest in tackling this. I’d make a limited run of SP cues
if I was a cue maker. I’d call them SPAZ cues and limit the first attempt to 25 cues (numbered) and set a max. price of under $600 delivered. I would make the cues look distinctively handsome but without being fancy. The customer should be able to specify the weight, shaft size and taper. And for production consistency, I suppose the joints all should be the same. My preference is a big pin wood to wood but whatever the cue maker preferred would probably be fine. The cue maker needs to match shafts that have a weight of at least 3.75 ozs but nothing lighter. A good weight is at least 4 ozs. and obviously a really thin diameter shaft would weigh less. The cue maker needs to be able to use seasoned wood which could be why this idea never got off the ground. When I was discussing this with Jerry R., that wasn’t going to be a problem and the price we had been kicking around was under $1k for a ltd. run of 12 cues. Know what? Sooner or later I hope some ambitious cue maker will see this as a great way to call attention to their cue making even though it’s only a SP style. With the right wood choices and finish, the SP cues could turn out to be very handsome.
