Blanks

[Matt_24]

Are there any modern day suppliers for spliced blanks these days? I'm speaking of blanks like Szamboti, Palmer, Adams, and others used to supply (I guess WICO is another example of a blank supplier). Just curious.

 

[Matt_24]

I read a past post and found my answers. Thank you.

 

[cueman]

Are there any modern day suppliers for spliced blanks these days? I'm speaking of blanks like Szamboti, Palmer, Adams, and others used to supply (I guess WICO is another example of a blank supplier). Just curious.

Wico was never a blank maker according to Bob Meucci. He says he made the blanks on the side while working there. I think most know this, but do not want to admit they built cues with Meucci blanks.

 

[Matt_24]

Wico was never a blank maker according to Bob Meucci. He says he made the blanks on the side while working there. I think most know this, but do not want to admit they built cues with Meucci blanks.

The story goes that Szamboti made his first few cues from WICO blanks, so I guess they were actually MEUCCI blanks?

 

[cueman]

The story goes that Szamboti made his first few cues from WICO blanks, so I guess they were actually MEUCCI blanks?

Yes, that is the case. Whether people like him or his cues or not, he has done tons for our industry that he never gets credit for.

 

[rhncue]

Wico was never a blank maker according to Bob Meucci. He says he made the blanks on the side while working there. I think most know this, but do not want to admit they built cues with Meucci blanks.

I was of the assumption that Szamboti used Wico points, not blanks, in 5 or 6 cues in his early days, while experimenting with different point making techniqes. Viking used 1,000s upon 1,000s of Wico points. Just when did Meucci get time for anything else if he supposedly was the maker of all of these.

Dick

 

[cueman]

I was of the assumption that Szamboti used Wico points, not blanks, in 5 or 6 cues in his early days, while experimenting with different point making techniqes. Viking used 1,000s upon 1,000s of Wico points. Just when did Meucci get time for anything else if he supposedly was the maker of all of these.

Dick

Point blanks are what I was refering to when I said blanks. I never heard of Viking using Wico parts, but Gordon himself told me that he/Viking made parts for many cuemakers and used to have a catalog selling parts to other cuemakers. That is why you see so many window cues and points that look alike. Meucci told me he perfected the seamless plastic veneer points on a challenge from Burton Spain that it could not be done flawless. Bob then let Gordon have the idea when he quit making them himself. You see those three pointers Viking made for years with those plastic veneers Bob turned them on to. According to Bob he cut all four point grooves in one pass each and could build a ton of blanks in a hurry, so it is possible he provided them for Gordan. He told me regular wood veneer points are one of the easiest things in cuemaking to make and he could not understand why someone would make that a test to pass to join a cuemakers association. He is a master of building jigs and such and I bet he makes it easy on himslef to do anything that he does. He said when he modernized one shop and switched them over to metal working equipment that he was able to bump their production up to over 200 cues a week with just a few people in the shop. I believe that was Chicago Cue Company, but might have been Wico, can't remember.
Chris
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