Art Cantando 16 Point Snakewood & Ivory Cue

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Here is a cue that is evidence that Art makes some of the most beautiful cues on the planet. Look at the workmanship in this 16 point monster cue. Each of the chain link rings has 24 ivory inlays (that's 96 ivory inlays in the rings on the 4 shafts alone). It is hard to believe that that the hands of a 78 year old man made this cue, especially considering the fact that he has been making cues for just 10 years and is missing half a thumb. Art's cues are among the best playing cues ever made. Enjoy the photos!

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Beautiful cue but those rings above and below the wraps shouldn't be there imo.
Very nice wrap.
 
Sweet....I'm with you Joey, match the rings or skip'em. Never the less nice cue.

Andy
 
Great looking cue

I disagree with those who would disparage Arts work. The cuemaker can put rings wherever he likes. It's called creative license. Art does things the old fashioned way, entirely by hand. The chain link work is amazing stuff and I think the cue is gorgeous.
TommyT
 
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TommyT said:
I disagree with those who would disparage Arts work. The cuemaker can put rings wherever he likes. It's called creative license. Art does things the old fashioned way, entirely by hand. The chain link work is amazing stuff and I think the cue is gorgeous.
TommyT
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This isn't ment to knock Art's work. I love his designs. But rings should line up. Artistic license only goes to the design of the rings, not the execution. I think you will also find the Art's hands are on a panograph, not free hand.
 
does anyone remember some of Gus's ring work including his stitched rings?? see the pic bellow.....none of these rings "line up". a maker has creative license to do as he "sees" and sometimes they see differently than some. if he truly "missed" it than shame on him if it was done on purpose, shame on everyone else.

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TommyT and Skins thanks for chiming in. The cue is perfect and the rings do in fact "line up."
 
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TommyT and Skins thanks for chiming in. The cue is perfect and the rings do in fact "line up."
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OK semantics. The rings line up with each other. How comes they don't line up with the points. One white point has a indexed ring sement centered and the other ones don't. Yeah I know, Artistic License. Guess Ginacue and Shick and Bender and a whole lot of other people don't have artistic license. George was smart, most of his cues didn't have indexed rings.
I've seen pictures of a lot of Gus's work, usually the rings are dead nuts.
Seems like the ones that don't match up are also the ones with embellishments at the tips. Hmm! Might have answered my own question with that one.

Before anyone jumps on me, let me add. I respect Art's work, and am not trying to knock the cue. I just like everything lined up. There are a lot of reasons for rings not to line up, 90 percent of the people on the forum have no idea on most of the ways they can get off. If art wants to use an index count that doesn't match up with the point count, then you are correct, he has every right to do so. Just my opinion that it should. Take it for what is was, an honest opinion.
 
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OK semantics. The rings line up with each other. How comes they don't line up with the points. One white point has a indexed ring sement centered and the other ones don't. Yeah I know, Artistic License. Guess Ginacue and Shick and Bender and a whole lot of other people don't have artistic license. George was smart, most of his cues didn't have indexed rings.
I've seen pictures of a lot of Gus's work, usually the rings are dead nuts.
Seems like the ones that don't match up are also the ones with embellishments at the tips. Hmm! Might have answered my own question with that one.

Before anyone jumps on me, let me add. I respect Art's work, and am not trying to knock the cue. I just like everything lined up. There are a lot of reasons for rings not to line up, 90 percent of the people on the forum have no idea on most of the ways they can get off. If art wants to use an index count that doesn't match up with the point count, then you are correct, he has every right to do so. Just my opinion that it should. Take it for what is was, an honest opinion.
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i don't know what pictures your looking at but ALLOT if not most of Gus's rings were not indexed to match point or inlay count. besides who sais everything has to be in some sort of regimented sequence. good design composition does not have to be linear.
 
skins said:
i don't know what pictures your looking at but ALLOT if not most of Gus's rings were not indexed to match point or inlay count. besides who sais everything has to be in some sort of regimented sequence. good design composition does not have to be linear.
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Guess that's why in your avator everything lines up. All I know is today if you send a new cue to a serious collector, he will eyeball the line up with a ruler. Guess we are held to a different standard than the past. As I said, I'm not knocking the cue, IMO things should line up. We may have to do a survey to find out how the rest of the world feels. Can't argue with gus's work, but Barry seems to spend more time on ring line up than his dad. I do have to argue with the statement that most of gus's work the rings were not indexed to match inlay or ring count. You sure see alot of 8 index or 12 index ring work in his 4 point cue. I'd go out on a limb and say most of his inlay work was based in mulitples of 4 as where his rings. If you have a gus with 5 indexed inlays, I'l put it in a very large safe.
 
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