My pal, Jeremy "The Giant Killer" Sossei has a nice relationship with the Whittens and has recently received a killer case from them featuring black lizard print leather pouches and red stitching. I have a couple Whittens myself and have always marveled over how you can not find a single stitch out of place on their cases; ever! :thumbup: I think as anyone who has owned a Whitten can attest, they make incredibly high-quality cases.
Having owned quite a few tube style cases in my life (Justis, Swift Whitten, etc) I, personally, have never had any issue as a result of how the cues don't quite fill the tube space side-to-side but I suppose there could be the potential for something to happen. Joe Whitten has come up with a straightforward and simple solution that should put tube-style case owners concerns to rest.
Jeremy stopped by my house a couple days ago to show this new product to me. There are two options to choose from, one is an actual joint protector which has a flared bottom that fills the tube space nicely eliminating side to side movement of cue butts (see pics). These joint protectors will be tapped to use with the various common thread pins; Jeremy uses a SW butt so these were tapped 3/8 11.
The second style being offered is an untapped thick washer-style spacer, looks like it made of black delrin. These can be used along with any standard joint protector, just slip it on over your pin then screw on your jp and, voila, side to side movement is now gone.
Below are a few pics of these products, please excuse any fuzzy images, my camera was having a bad day.
If you would like any more info on these or want to order you can get in touch with Joe Whitten via email at: joe@whittencases.com
Jeremy's new case is in post 2.
best,
brian kc
Having owned quite a few tube style cases in my life (Justis, Swift Whitten, etc) I, personally, have never had any issue as a result of how the cues don't quite fill the tube space side-to-side but I suppose there could be the potential for something to happen. Joe Whitten has come up with a straightforward and simple solution that should put tube-style case owners concerns to rest.
Jeremy stopped by my house a couple days ago to show this new product to me. There are two options to choose from, one is an actual joint protector which has a flared bottom that fills the tube space nicely eliminating side to side movement of cue butts (see pics). These joint protectors will be tapped to use with the various common thread pins; Jeremy uses a SW butt so these were tapped 3/8 11.
The second style being offered is an untapped thick washer-style spacer, looks like it made of black delrin. These can be used along with any standard joint protector, just slip it on over your pin then screw on your jp and, voila, side to side movement is now gone.
Below are a few pics of these products, please excuse any fuzzy images, my camera was having a bad day.
If you would like any more info on these or want to order you can get in touch with Joe Whitten via email at: joe@whittencases.com
Jeremy's new case is in post 2.
best,
brian kc
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