Better, topic (Veneers)

[Graciocues]

With the expectations of concentric perfection I think mitered veneers are the future.

My first veneers were stacked. I learned how to miter and never went back. I think most of us start with stacked and move to mitered.

A very important thing to think about when building a cue is the questions the owner will get asked when he's showing it. Stacked veneers will come to attention enough I don't want my customer having to explain why I built the cue that way.

Both methods look great. I think mitered is harder to get perfect.

 

[Michael Webb]

With the expectations of concentric perfection I think mitered veneers are the future.

My first veneers were stacked. I learned how to miter and never went back. I think most of us start with stacked and move to mitered.

A very important thing to think about when building a cue is the questions the owner will get asked when he's showing it. Stacked veneers will come to attention enough I don't want my customer having to explain why I built the cue that way.

Both methods look great. I think mitered is harder to get perfect.

Thank you Scott:
I agree mitered is harder to get perfect, and to to add to that, especially the point Eric Crisp made about the sharpness of the inner point. But on the overlapped the inner point is always sharp and the focus draws attention to how clean the sides are when put together. A few guys on this forum always bring up Prathers when talking about the overlapped method just because they sell blanks. They are far from the only people that do this method. And not to many people know more about overall Cue construction than Jeff Prather. He is a fine craftsman and quite the Gentleman, but because he sells blanks he takes a hit. Samsara cues are consider to be one of the finest Cue makers in the world, they offer overlapped veneers and have some blanks available thru Atlas. There are also others that don't offer their forearms on the open market and build incredible cues. On the overall, I really shutter to think based on Cue making alone that some Cue makers could be considered inferior because they choose to do one method over the other. I love looking at all cues and accept and try to understand what was done, not condemn how it was done.