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Chuck no longer sells maple for cues.

Yes, the UP or Upper Peninsula looks like an odd shaped island above Michigan has been and hopefully will continue to be a great place to find hard maple which grows on a narrow strip of land on both sides of the U.S. and Canadian border between the Midwest and the East Coast. Too far West the...

The maple in your picture looks very dense but cue makers are also looking for is straight grain. When looking down the shaft they would like to see the layers of growth rings to run parallel down the length of the shaft. I am not sure if color is important now as it was in the 1980s everyone...

Thank you, I will make the correction.

Not sure if this message is for me, I did not post anything about 7 months.

I mentioned this earlier. When I checked out a set of balls I would put the cue ball between two object balls then place the flat part of a wood triangle on top of the three balls and the cue ball was always smaller than the object balls. This is an easy test to try the next time you are in a...

I bought this cue from Tad when he was still making cues in the back of a pool room on Washington Boulevard just West of Western Avenue in Los Angeles. It was the most expensive cue Tad made at the time and I never used used the cue. The cue has been sold, I will delete this post when we...

Yes, once the law or the government has anything you own you have almost no chance of getting it back. A lawyer helped me write letters to Fish and Game and I am sure Ernie said the cue belonged to a customer and I seem to remember it took 10 or 11 months to get it back.

The first picture is a standard 3/8 10 screw that Harvey Martin Bert Schrager used in their cues. The second picture is a modified 3/8 10 screw that various other cue makers used on their cues. Jerry Franklin of SouthWest cues used a modified 3/8 11 screw in all of his cues. I will try to find...

Thank you for confirming my suspicion, it's amazing to me that two cue balls with the same diameter and weigh would play so differently.

I might have been one of the guys. It was in the 70's a decent road player was told he could play anyone at Mr Pockets except Brian. The player asks, "How can I tell who is Brian?". He was told, "He's the Asian guy that plays with a hat turned backwards". When the player got to room he said...

I own a lot of cues and I have played with most of them. I did not play with a few high end cues because I felt they might become collector's items. They all hit differently, I like the way a few of them hit and hated the way others hit. I have been asked a bunch of times about “What cue should...

Bert Schrager played three cushion billiards at Tiff Payne's room in North Hollywood. The cue everyone used at the time was a Martin which is stiffer than a pool cue and used a large metal screw between the butt and the shaft. I have a cue with that type of joint and I will find the cue and...

The pool room with the most action in Los Angeles in the late 1960's to the early 1970's was Mr Pockets on 6th Street one block West of Western Avenue. It was a great room, there was enough space between the 14 tables that you did not have to wait for the player on the next table to finish...

The Big C is a tough game, it sounds like he is getting good care and I hope he recovers.

I stopped playing pool 25 years ago and I was shocked to see the various cue balls weigh the same. In the 1970's the Blue Circle cue balls played better than all the other cue balls. After a Blue Circle hit the object ball the Blue Circle acted like it was heavier because the Blue Circle would...

I've spoken with a couple of excellent cue makers and they all said hardwood is the best material for making a cue. I like what Chuck Truesdale, a maple supplier in the early 1990s said about supplying maple to cue makers. "If there is a better wood than Hard Maple for cues, everyone would be...

I can't say pool made me smarter but pool allowed me to develop skills that have helped me all of my life. The work habits I used to learn to play pool also helped me succeed at my jobs and relationships.

Thank you everyone and I will list my cues again and watch them carefully.

This cue was taken by the U.S. Fish and Game Department when I left the cue with Ernie to be refinished. The cue was returned to me because they said it didn't have ivory in it. I decided to not refinish the cue because the cue now has a unique history. With this cue's documented history I am...