3/8-10 pin from Bryan Mordt....

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FLYINGSNAIL

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I just received these 50 pins from Bryan Mordt. Took some pictures. They are super high quality pins, they are electro polish. Best pin you buy with your money.
Thanks Bryan...:smile:


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Those look much nicer than the pins Lee sells. I saw his prices and they look pretty good , if I diden't make my own I would jump all over them.
 
ive used lee's pins and there is nothing wrong with them.

i also just intalled one of bryans titanuim pins yesterday and they a very nice too.

cant go wrong either way
 
hillscues said:
Those look much nicer than the pins Lee sells. I saw his prices and they look pretty good , if I diden't make my own I would jump all over them.
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Gee thanks funny I never had any complaints and sold thousands
electro polishing adds money to the cost when the cue maker can just polish them on a buffing wheel for free
 
brianna187 said:
electro polishing adds money to the cost when the cue maker can just polish them on a buffing wheel for free
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I certainly don't want to start a pissing match but I beg to differ with you on this statement.

First...NOTHING is free...You are correct by suggesting a builder could just polish the pins on their own time and use their own electricity and use their own polishing compound and use the wear and tear on their own machines.
But it's certainly not free unless you've stolen it.

Secondly....if you do any research on the subject you will find out it is almost impossible to duplicate the electro polishing technique doing the individual pieces by hand.
The added cost is minimal to the added benefit you'll receive. Yes, you have to send a large lot in at one time for it to be cost effective. But some manufacturers of products would rather cut costs and present a lesser quality of a product at a reduced price of their competitors....
and that's fine also.

Thirdly........No, I do not buy pins from the individual promoting the electro polished product.
 
I am thinking of buying some titanium pins from Bryan...I think the electro polishing makes it more pleasing to the eye...nothing against Lee whatsoever...

I think if your gonna have a pretty cue...why not have a pretty polished pin to go with it.....but thats just me....im picky about stuff though...
 
> These pins were the example I used in a post a few days ago about exactly why MOST cuemakers prefer to buy their pins rather than make them.

That is KILLER work,even without the electro-polish. Tommy D.
 
Tommy-D said:
> These pins were the example I used in a post a few days ago about exactly why MOST cuemakers prefer to buy their pins rather than make them.

That is KILLER work,even without the electro-polish. Tommy D.
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My sentiments exactly. My pin looks very similar to this except different dimensions. I made my own for a long time and could polish them to look great, but what a pain in the arse it was. Much easier and repeatably consistent buying them. Cool of BCM to offer these electro-polished pins.
 
qbilder said:
My sentiments exactly. My pin looks very similar to this except different dimensions. I made my own for a long time and could polish them to look great, but what a pain in the arse it was. Much easier and repeatably consistent buying them. Cool of BCM to offer these electro-polished pins.
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When I was doing research on having my pins made I looked into getting a set-up for doing electro-polishing. The equipment is the same as electro-plating but with the wires reversed. My problem was that I couldn't find a good usable recipe for the chemicals to use. At the time I was buying pins from another cue maker who had some made but you had to polish the stainless yourself. This ain't fun. If you use a wheel and don't polish enough you can hydraulic the cue and if you do to much you loose the profile of the threads and may make the pin to small. When polishing the thread points are what are worn the most. Electro-polishing, if done correctly, does not change the profile of the pins what so ever.It just eats the high spots of metal so that the metal is much smoother, hence, much shinier. I was told that only about .0001 to .0002 in metal was lost. There is a plating place near me whom said they would polish the pins for between .80 and 1.00 each if they were brought in in sufficient numbers. This was about 6 or so years ago, In the end we decided to go with brass pins as they could be polished so much easier.

Dick
 
Just trying to share something good with everyone....

There are many cue parts suppliers and I had bought many parts and supply from all the suppliers most cue maker know of. Just happen to be Bryan Mordt selling these pins are the same kind of pins I use on my cue building. I am not trying to start any trouble here. Just want to share info. with AZers what a great products I received. I had tried to contact my last guy that made my pins he never return my call. "ELECTRO POLISH" I did not ask for.
I ask not to have those pins polish. But Bryan gave me those polished pins see if I like them. Which I do.



"Brianna"
Lee there is nothing wrong with any of your products or pins. Matter of fact I still have some in stock.
"PEACE OUT"



p.s. When I first started here AZB. I sold most of the used cues that I used to play with. Use that money to buy leathers and skins from different dealers and suppliers. Advertised to install leather and lizard skin wraps on cues and sell leather wraps and lizard wraps. As time when on there are many other started to do the same thing what I do too. Which I dont have any problem with anyone of them. What I am trying to say is very competitive world out there. I am glad I still have my fulltime job.
 
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There are many cue parts suppliers and I had bought many parts and supply from all the suppliers most cue maker know of.
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What's the diam. of the alignment barrel and the od of the bottom threads KK?
Thnx.
 
BarenbruggeCues said:
I certainly don't want to start a pissing match but I beg to differ with you on this statement.

First...NOTHING is free...You are correct by suggesting a builder could just polish the pins on their own time and use their own electricity and use their own polishing compound and use the wear and tear on their own machines.
But it's certainly not free unless you've stolen it.

Secondly....if you do any research on the subject you will find out it is almost impossible to duplicate the electro polishing technique doing the individual pieces by hand.
The added cost is minimal to the added benefit you'll receive. Yes, you have to send a large lot in at one time for it to be cost effective. But some manufacturers of products would rather cut costs and present a lesser quality of a product at a reduced price of their competitors....
and that's fine also.

Thirdly........No, I do not buy pins from the individual promoting the electro polished product.
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You can use a tumble polisher and there is no labor. I agree with you though, your time is the most valuable thing in the shop. When you consider your time as being as much as $60.00 to $100.00 or more an hour depending what you are doing, you cant spend 15 minutes trying to save $2.00.
 
macguy said:
You can use a tumble polisher and there is no labor. I agree with you though, your time is the most valuable thing in the shop. When you consider your time as being as much as $60.00 to $100.00 or more an hour depending what you are doing, you cant spend 15 minutes trying to save $2.00.
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I agree with you on the tumbler and having minimal touch time on them but I still don't think you'll get the type of finish you would the electro way. Electro polishing is used to produce the "mirror" type finish on SS. You know those ones you look in at the rest stops along our highways. I'm sure many would think and say to themselves.."do they really need to be THAT shiny?"
Time is our most valued asset when attempting to producing the best IMO.
 
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