It's a damn shame that so many never mention the "other food group" in cues that Cognoscenti made popular in the early 90's and since has influenced decades of design.. Joe Gold is a pioneer in a many aspects and NEVER gets the recognition. His push of fancy design floating points, silver implementation, ultra precision construction, and G10 pin are so under recognised it's borderline criminal.
Joe is another pioneer that deservers his due in the cue category discussion.
Right on! That’s one of the reasons I decided to post this tread, so we (as a community) could discuss The who, what, when, where and how we got to this point in cue constitution.
Do you know where Joe got his inspiration to build cues the way he does? Did he apprentice under anyone? Aside from the glass pin, how is his cue building so different that he should be considered, in a different category?
I would imagine, if this tread goes on for awhile (very much hope it does) we will get into the area of how certain builders actually construct cues. Anyone that has spent any time around makers know, they keep a lot of the detains very close. But, a lot of the construction is pretty well know, if you pay attention, like the way Bushka used a phenolic ring to better attach the end grain of wood, usually under the wrap or as the buzz ring. Spain actually talks about it in his cue building book. Anyways I believe we can still have this conversation without letting the cat out of the bag.
If the chart can’t be found, I’ll wait until we get a good bit of info and put together a chart/list and post on my initial thread, so everything is on the first page. Once we decide on how many different categories there are, I’ll just start adding names under certain styles like;
Balabushka:
Pete Tascarella, Richard Black, Dennis Searing, etc...
DPK:
Jerry Franklin, etc...
Martin:
....
I’m excited to see the history of cue building! Hell, it might save everyone time because pretty often, people ask “who makes cues that are like....”
We could post a link to this tread and let people see who learned from who and make their own decisions about choosing a maker.
If I post something that is incorrect or a maker doesn’t want public, send me a PM or say something and we’ll resolve it like adults. Really don’t want this tread to turn into one big argument. Already plenty of those threads, don’t need another.
Again, thank you to all those that contribute
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