You don't really see them anymore. For awhile, all the big cues seemed to have them. Have they gone out of style?
I'm convinced that it happened... They were on a lot of the ivory-heavy tuxedo cues and cues where makers were trying to push their limits or be experimental... The Lambros "Dragon" cue immediately comes to mind.RTL wraps more likely fell out of style and I don’t really recall a time when they became a craze or fad
for what you refer to as big cues. If that means top notch names like Ginacue, Manzino, Szamboti,
Scruggs, Wayne, Hercek, etc. and the list of top name cue-makers is by no means a short list, my
recollection is they didn’t use RTL wraps often. I’m tempted to write they hardly used it but I don’t know
that to be true. However, not sayin’ the great names didn’t use RTL but I just don’t recall seeing many
Szams etc with it as the wrap. RTL wraps can make a ho-hum design look much better but IMO, they
distract and take away from the really handsome cue designs. And snakeskin wraps are the same way.
Nonetheless, every cue design ultimately comes down to beauty being in the eye of the beholder. And
a wrap is a backdrop to the design, not the center piece. it should never distract but rather compliment
the cue’s design. I have never seen any top notch cue-maker produce a great design (IMO) that used
RTL or Snakeskin for the cue wrap. Sometimes a cue-owner might change it later on but like I earlier
acknowledged, what one person finds handsome another person might care for very much, if at all.
They went out the door along with Ivory. The Tuxedo look fails when the white is not Ivory
Just going by the number of Lizard Boots I have had and thrown away because they don't last. I would think that the natural Ring Tail Lizard wrap wouldn't last very long on a cue that was played every day. So they probably were replaced with something more durable.
that is a stunning cue mike.Like everything else. That depends on who's opinion. Lol
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Like everything else. That depends on who's opinion. Lol
Tuxedo cues are Ebony and Ivory, or black and white. It's the simplicity that brings out the elegance.
that is a stunning cue mike.
great craftsmanship and design .....:thumbup::thumbup: