A none murdered animal cue please.

Inzombiac said:
Lol, this makes me laugh cus I'm picturing a roadkill cue... like, dead possums and raccoons and stuff.
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I am fascinated with this idea - I would want mine to be 'all natural', though (except pin). It would take some work to find just the right dead trees lying around, preferably one that was knocked over by a car or truck, but you could probably find a suitable roadkill animal for the leather grip quite easily. I don't know about the horn/ivory though. Roadkill buck would be tough. But you could go with a deer horn found on a hiking trail (I have one) for ferrules, butt-cap and joint. I think that about covers it.

I think this is doable.
 
seb9 said:
Awesome, but how do you know when a cue is a mock ivory and not the real thing?

In the cue stats, it doesn't say the type of ivory it just says ivory period... makes it hard to find a cue of my personal liking for these reasons...

And also, i respect that you would take it into consideration for buying a cue.
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So this means that the cues you were looking at could have been man mad ivory and not ivory from elephants. It is almost impossible to get ivory in the U.S. now, so most what you see in newer cues isnt ivory from elephants.

Southpaw
 
seb9 said:
I have tried to search for it and could not find the information i was looking for, the only thing that came up was when people introduced their cues with stats.

How can you prove to me that only 1% of the cues have real ivory in it? is this just assumption or do you actually have a source that would confirm this to me?

And about being a bad gay, that was a typo and i fixed it, i am not gay and i have nothing against gays.

Give me a chance i am not even english.
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You might want to consider cuetech, since they don't even have wood.
Not sure what you'll use for a tip that didn't come from a pig or cow.

Would you mind helping us prioritise the order in descending fashion, which animals are "OK" to use thier dead parts in? Do trees count?
 
I think it has been pretty much covered so far, but I noted that you are apparently looking for a cuemaker that does not use ivory in ANY cue. My advise would be to buy a copy of the Blue Book of Pool Cues, and read through it. I can't remember off the top of my head who they are, other than Mariposa (who is, but the way, no longer making cues), who refused to use ivory, but I would believe that there would be mention of it in the content of each cuemaker bio pages.

I will give you credit for being more "conscious" with respect to this one individual topic (ivory and elephants), but it would seem that you are not consistent in your approach. Ivory is off bounds, but the leather used to make the tips, and possibly the wrap, is OK. What will you carry such a cue in? Virtually every case is made with leather, vinyl, or some other synthetic material. Probably 95%+ of these synthetic materials are made with petroleum based products. Ohh my, I am now jumping into the environmental area associated with drilling for oil and ruining the environment! How will you get to the pool hall? In a fuel powered vehicle perhaps, made mostly of metal? Oops, mining is a horrible thing.

You get the picture. Everything can be taken to extreme, and has been on this forum. What about the cuemakers religious convictions? Does that matter? The list is never ending.

Would have been alot easier if you simply would have said: Can anyone provide the name of a cuemaker who does not use ivory? Done, you would have had a short list and would have been happily on your way.

Good, luck, again I think the Blue Book can assist in pointing you in the right direction.
 
I use Ivory every day when I take a shower. It is pretty inexpensive and is always in large quantities at Ingles, so I'm not sure why people insist on saying it has a limited supply. Also, Elephant meat is very tasty. I make Elephant burgers on speacial occasions and gatherings. My "Jumbo Dumbo" burgers w/cheese are always a hit.
 
THATS IT ENOUGHT JOKES!!!!!
I will have you know that I am a card carrying member of PETA

P.eople E.ating T.asty A.nimals

not that other group of whackos
 
Elephant wrap's

I try to be very careful about the anmial products I use. I really wanted a cue that had an Elephant ear wrap. I didn't feel it would be right just to use one ear so I had the cuemaker build me 2 cues. Couldn't have any one ear'd elephants running around.:D
 
lenoxmjs said:
I try to be very careful about the anmial products I use. I really wanted a cue that had an Elephant ear wrap. I didn't feel it would be right just to use one ear so I had the cuemaker build me 2 cues. Couldn't have any one ear'd elephants running around. :D
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I understand your intent to be considerate of a fellow species, but I think the cue maker cheated you if he charged for two ears. You can normally wrap five or six cues with each ear.

Bob <-- Keep carnivory within your own species. Where's that bar-B-Q sauce? Donner, party of six.......... Donner, party of five.....
 
smokeandapancak said:
THATS IT ENOUGHT JOKES!!!!!
I will have you know that I am a card carrying member of PETA

P.eople E.ating T.asty A.nimals

not that other group of whackos
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Yes.
My bumper sticker on my truck says

I love animals
They're delicious
Ted Nugent / Sunrise Acres
 
Bob Jewett said:
I understand your intent to be considerate of a fellow species, but I think the cue maker cheated you if he charged for two ears. You can normally wrap five or six cues with each ear.

Bob <-- Keep carnivory within your own species. Where's that bar-B-Q sauce? Donner, party of six.......... Donner, party of five.....
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ahhhhh.........Dahmer, party of six................Dahmer, party of five.
JoeyA
 
X Breaker said:
I think your English is very good actually.:)
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Oh come on X... You don't REALLY believe at this point that this guy is foreign, do you?

He was a troll, probably someone we know, and I was one of the first ones he successfully baited. That's why I haven't responded since page 7 or 8...

Russ
 
Russ Chewning said:
Oh come on X... You don't REALLY believe at this point that this guy is foreign, do you?

He was a troll, probably someone we know, and I was one of the first ones he successfully baited. That's why I haven't responded since page 7 or 8...

Russ
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Hmm, if you were ''baited'' like you say then maybe you are the troll not me because you see, it was not my intentions to get you to get all upset like you did.

I did not insult anyone, you can insult me of every possible insults there is out there and i won't insult you back why? because i don't want to insult anyone, im not a troll.

The reason why my english spelling is ok is because i have firefox and it got a spelling corrector, i am indeed not english.

My english weakness is combination of words, i can't say exactly what i mean because i have to limit my choices to what i can comprehend in a sentence composition manner (errr see i couldn't really say what i wanted to say there...)
 
Seb, back to the chase.

What priorities do you place on other components that came from a former living creature?

Plants? Animals?? Farmed?? Died from natural causes?

The list of conflict is never ending, so where do you draw the line?


You do use a tip on your cue, right?

A leather one too......right?
 
Mr. Wilson said:
Seb, back to the chase.

What priorities do you place on other components that came from a former living creature?

Plants? Animals?? Farmed?? Died from natural causes?

The list of conflict is never ending, so where do you draw the line?


You do use a tip on your cue, right?

A leather one too......right?
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Mr. Wilson,

I am assuming he is a troll as, he responded very quickly to my post referencing "baiting", and even though he is foreign, seemed to have no trouble knowing what the word "baiting" meant. Used in the context I used it, "baiting" would not be obvious as to it's meaning unless the person had experience with it before. Also, the way he has combined certain phrases has changed over his posts, so t pretty much looks like a native english speaker attempted to "playact" as a foreigner.

So... he's pretty much a very successful troll.

If he is a troll, you could probably put a stop to it quick enough. By checking his IP and seeing if it corresponds to the IPs of any other known trolls.

I assume you keep track of banned posters/trolls by IP, right?

Russ
 
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Russ, it's quite ironic that some people sent me private messages to warn me that you are a troll on this board some times and to not pay attention to your posts.
 
you two are so cute.... one's suppossedly playing stupid and talking about "private messages" and calling the other a troll and the other is telling big poppa that the other is "troll"

sweet.... now go make nice boys....
 
You can do an ip check all you want, you will see that this is my first ever account on this forum.

I am not a troll, i do not insult anyone else and i love everyone equal.

What i said about the private message is the truth, i could copy paste it here if you want with out saying who said it.
 
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