So I stopped by the BCM Cue website today and read a letter he wrote to his customers. He says he will no longer be taking custom orders. He is still making cues. Kinda bummed me out I was looking at buying. He stated that we will be updates when new cues are avaliable so I guess I'll be looking at those. Well I just wanted to share.
BCM Cues (Bryan Mordt) no longer taking custom orders
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Double Dave always had 4~6 BCM cues on his website.
Don't know, where the others have gone, maybe he has just removed them from the site but still owns them, but this is up for sale...
http://www.doubledavecues.com/catal...=4474&osCsid=338a1389e6dafe6871f900d0943bd50e
Just ask him about Bryans cues!
Don't know, where the others have gone, maybe he has just removed them from the site but still owns them, but this is up for sale...
http://www.doubledavecues.com/catal...=4474&osCsid=338a1389e6dafe6871f900d0943bd50e
Just ask him about Bryans cues!
seems like the smart way to do business if you can
Seems like the smart way for a cue maker to do business. Sometimes delays are a cue makers fault, sometimes his responsibility even if not his fault. A batch of bad finish can set you back a month or more. A broken cutting tool damaging a butt can put you from 75% complete or more back to square one too. Of course sometimes health or life interferes, sometimes a cue maker is just a poor time manager or overoptimistic about his abilities in terms of how long it takes him to do something.
I still own a cue lathe but have pretty much lost interest in making any. If I did I think I would let somebody tell me what they wanted and if it wasn't totally off the wall I wouldn't take a deposit. When the cue was complete they would get first turn down. If they didn't want it or couldn't make full payment within thirty days down the road the cue would go! Anyone wanting something really one off would have to pay a third down plus the price of any unusually expensive components. They would have to be happy with a time frame of a year or three too. They might get it in six to nine months if things went smoothly and be thrilled, might take a couple years if Murphy kept biting me in the butt one way or another.
I used to help bid hard money jobs. Estimating completion dates didn't mean dates if everything went ideal, it meant completion dates if things went typically, plus a little cushion on top of that. If cue builders as a group estimated time the same way they would have many more happy customers. Rare that a good cue builder and good businessman reside in the same body though so best to find one married to a good business woman!
Hu
Seems like the smart way for a cue maker to do business. Sometimes delays are a cue makers fault, sometimes his responsibility even if not his fault. A batch of bad finish can set you back a month or more. A broken cutting tool damaging a butt can put you from 75% complete or more back to square one too. Of course sometimes health or life interferes, sometimes a cue maker is just a poor time manager or overoptimistic about his abilities in terms of how long it takes him to do something.
I still own a cue lathe but have pretty much lost interest in making any. If I did I think I would let somebody tell me what they wanted and if it wasn't totally off the wall I wouldn't take a deposit. When the cue was complete they would get first turn down. If they didn't want it or couldn't make full payment within thirty days down the road the cue would go! Anyone wanting something really one off would have to pay a third down plus the price of any unusually expensive components. They would have to be happy with a time frame of a year or three too. They might get it in six to nine months if things went smoothly and be thrilled, might take a couple years if Murphy kept biting me in the butt one way or another.
I used to help bid hard money jobs. Estimating completion dates didn't mean dates if everything went ideal, it meant completion dates if things went typically, plus a little cushion on top of that. If cue builders as a group estimated time the same way they would have many more happy customers. Rare that a good cue builder and good businessman reside in the same body though so best to find one married to a good business woman!
Hu