Anybody like this idea???
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Very interesting Dave,will it be like that in the butt also? :smile:
i personally think that piece would look sweet as a handle on a wrapless cue...
chris
chris
Yeah maybe a handle with floating points in the forearm and the butt,that would be something.ChrisOnline said:
Love box cues
If I were ordering a cue like this, I would have asked for the boxes to be book matched (I think that is the term) so the pattern of tiger figure matched from window to window. I would want the flow of the tiger rings to draw the eye to that part of the design. Also, the purple heart at the top and bottom would need to match perfectly the slots of PH between the windows. Otherwise, it looks like a laminated dowell rather than an inlayed forearm. With the design you have now, my thought would be to add long barbells between the rectangles (Szamboti style) and have the dots at either end overlay the glue line between the two end pieces of purple heart, thus minimizing the contrast between PH grain and color.
Long big windows do work for me and I like the color choice of pairing PH with figured maple. I do look forward to seeing the finished product.
If I were ordering a cue like this, I would have asked for the boxes to be book matched (I think that is the term) so the pattern of tiger figure matched from window to window. I would want the flow of the tiger rings to draw the eye to that part of the design. Also, the purple heart at the top and bottom would need to match perfectly the slots of PH between the windows. Otherwise, it looks like a laminated dowell rather than an inlayed forearm. With the design you have now, my thought would be to add long barbells between the rectangles (Szamboti style) and have the dots at either end overlay the glue line between the two end pieces of purple heart, thus minimizing the contrast between PH grain and color.
Long big windows do work for me and I like the color choice of pairing PH with figured maple. I do look forward to seeing the finished product.
Drawman623 said:
Thanks Guys....Yes the Maple is bookmatched so all the curls line up threw the piece. The barbells are a cool idea as well. I'll probably do a few in ebony so theres no glue lines to be seen.....anyway keep the comments up guys Thanks Dave
hi davenbll01 said:
i have been toying with the same idea recently
here's a segmented handle , bookmatched the curly too
this one was the first i tried
my opinion is the cocobolo is wayyyyyyyy too wide,
seemed like a good idea at the time ,
you know how that stuff goes,
but a guy i shoot league with likes it, gave me a deposit on it friday
i got another one in the works with thinner coco
Well I think it looks pretty good myself.. Like my dad use to tell me "beauty is in the eye of the beholder"
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almost like that
when i started experimenting with different splices i made a forearm with splices like that, it was bocote into maple with a solid maple handle and bocote into maple for the butt cap. i used 1/4 by 1/4 inch strips, and inlayed them almost 1/4 inch deep. this gave the cue a very stiff hit. chuck
when i started experimenting with different splices i made a forearm with splices like that, it was bocote into maple with a solid maple handle and bocote into maple for the butt cap. i used 1/4 by 1/4 inch strips, and inlayed them almost 1/4 inch deep. this gave the cue a very stiff hit. chuck
BHQ said:
ok the spelling errors are corrected Professor
