bruin70 said:nippon....it's "craig" peterson.
i prefer veneers. i think their tougher to make WELL,,,, ie. hiding the mitered lines.
with today's machinery, i don't think it's difficult to splice point into point. all these cuemakers were machinists and dealt with 1/100000th" tolerances,,,accuracy is not a problem then. it would be a different story if cuemakers today were still building cues in the archaic manner that craig did. craig was, by far,THE BEST four point four veneer cuemaker in the business.
sycamore is what they use to make veneers, and though i don't know what the integral strength of sycamore is, i don't think it compromises the cue. i'd be interested to hear, though. if that were the case, tad, gutierrez, and other cuemakers who have great integrity would've stopped using sycamore veneers long ago. tad, in fact, used to be of the opinion that too much birdseye figuring was bad for maple since birdseye is essentially a diseased wood. so what's ok with him is ok with me.
I typed "Graig," I am sorry. I stand corrected. It should be "Craig." Glad you and everyone here know whom I was referring to anyway. Thank you.
I am not here to defend the idea of re-cut points--I am here to post pictures of a cue for everyone to enjoy, and to describe the cue according to the way Judd described it.
I like the look of re-cut points. I do not know which one is more difficult to make.
Speaking of Ernie, it is also Ernie's belief that he should bore all his ebony forearm and cored it with maple. Judd does not like coring, either does Joey Gold. Is Ernie's cues the most solid hitting in the world? Should everyone else makes cues the way Ernie make his?
I like the hit of Cognoscenti, and he uses CNC; Ernie does half spliced; and Joey Hercek uses full spliced. Maybe Tad does not like too many birdseye, but Reyes likes the hit of his Judd made from this "disceased" wood just fine.
To have a wide spectrum of cues in various art form makes the cue making world exciting and fanscinating. I like to appreciate different cues with an open mind because the variations is one of the reasons why I was attracted to cues in the first place.
Thank you.
Richard
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