A pal and I were laughing the other day about how small a detail can fascinate cue people (we were marveling over a maker reversing the order of his veneers) and then I saw this cue and had to have it (for as ever long as THAT turns out to be) because I have an affinity for boxed window cues.
When I got my hot hands on this beauty I noticed the veneers in the butt were stacked. Ernie's first generation cues of course were stacked, everybody building cues in the 60s built them that way, but when Ernie returned to cue making in 1990 (after 2 years of putting his shop together) he went to mitered veneers, the newer, cleaner (for most), more modern style of the craft. I asked him about it and he laughed and explained that he had blanks left over from the Rat Pack cues (circa 1971) and used them on a few early cues in the 1990s. I asked how early this cue was and he unscrewed the bumper and showed me. This was the first time I have seen his ID in the butt, he explained that he tried it for a few cues and then realized that it was a pain to look up cues this way so went to the inscription in the joint (the method he uses to this day). While I was enjoying all this information, he went to a drawer (blows my mind when he does this) opened it, and pulled out a 1970 Rat Pack left over window box blank.
Enjoy:
Thanks
Kevin
When I got my hot hands on this beauty I noticed the veneers in the butt were stacked. Ernie's first generation cues of course were stacked, everybody building cues in the 60s built them that way, but when Ernie returned to cue making in 1990 (after 2 years of putting his shop together) he went to mitered veneers, the newer, cleaner (for most), more modern style of the craft. I asked him about it and he laughed and explained that he had blanks left over from the Rat Pack cues (circa 1971) and used them on a few early cues in the 1990s. I asked how early this cue was and he unscrewed the bumper and showed me. This was the first time I have seen his ID in the butt, he explained that he tried it for a few cues and then realized that it was a pain to look up cues this way so went to the inscription in the joint (the method he uses to this day). While I was enjoying all this information, he went to a drawer (blows my mind when he does this) opened it, and pulled out a 1970 Rat Pack left over window box blank.
Enjoy:
Thanks
Kevin
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