Brent, I never was much of a fan of butterflies, but seeing your cues has inspired me to build a cue with butterflies. I'm gonna call it the "BHQ tribute". Your designs are unique and I would be honored to be the first to steal one of your designs. I'll post pics when it's finished.
Butterfly Cues
- Thread starter randywhite30
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Funny, I get the same thing about bikes. There are "Harley experts" in every crowd. Amazing how many of them are actually Harley owners, and don't know a damn thing about them. The same goes for motorcycles in general....especially thing like the Triumphs as well. I have owned many bikes, American, Brit, and Jap. Most of them I have built so I know them very well in general. I love it when I get comments from a trained mechanic like "you can't do that" or "that won't work". LOL! Yeah, right. At bike runs I get comments like "that's a 56 or 57", more than 20 years off...nowhere close....I just say "yeah, something like that". When they ask "Is it for sale?" I say: Sorry....you can't afford it. :smile:
As for mistaking the cue for a decal cue I can understand how that can happen. When people don't have much exposure to the better cues the splices and inlays they are used to seeing have a lot of glue lines, gaps, irregularities, and are not well aligned. When they see one that is so perfect they think it must be decals. I get it. They are wrong, but I get it.
If somebody thinks a cue you made is a decal cue it is in a way a complement. That means it looks so perfect they can't believe the splices and inlays are real. :thumbup:
As for mistaking the cue for a decal cue I can understand how that can happen. When people don't have much exposure to the better cues the splices and inlays they are used to seeing have a lot of glue lines, gaps, irregularities, and are not well aligned. When they see one that is so perfect they think it must be decals. I get it. They are wrong, but I get it.
If somebody thinks a cue you made is a decal cue it is in a way a complement. That means it looks so perfect they can't believe the splices and inlays are real. :thumbup:
I get that with the Harley experts too Doc.
They tell me that they use to (operative word here, Use to own) a, "insert date and engine model". I don't try and burst their bubble but thinking, Wow
that must have been a very unique HD because they never made a Pan Head in that year. And their girls friends are thinking, "Yeah, my boyfriend used to be a big bad a ss biker".
I feel the same about Butter flies. I always liked them but never thought I would want to own one.
That is until I saw Brent's cues. Now I would love to have one of his, or just know how to make a simple one would be good enuff.
Seriously like the Ice BF. Wishing I lived closer to Brent. He would have a shop squirrel for free for a long time.
They tell me that they use to (operative word here, Use to own) a, "insert date and engine model". I don't try and burst their bubble but thinking, Wow
that must have been a very unique HD because they never made a Pan Head in that year. And their girls friends are thinking, "Yeah, my boyfriend used to be a big bad a ss biker".
I feel the same about Butter flies. I always liked them but never thought I would want to own one.
That is until I saw Brent's cues. Now I would love to have one of his, or just know how to make a simple one would be good enuff.
Seriously like the Ice BF. Wishing I lived closer to Brent. He would have a shop squirrel for free for a long time.
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know it all
bsa triumph motorcycles
i bet everyone thinks that bsa motorcycles stood for british small arms.
wrong B@STARD STOPPED AGAIN
we have a new guy in town his uncle is pro .
im showing cues he walks up looks at my cues and said all the wood to wood jointed cues the threads pull out of the the shaft after a year or 2,
in front of about 15 people. i open my pool case started to lay out shafts that were 6 to 8 years old. he just walked away.
showing cues is tough people bump the cues its like you need to show the cues in rubber room.
sorry this all off the subject
MMike
bsa triumph motorcycles
i bet everyone thinks that bsa motorcycles stood for british small arms.
wrong B@STARD STOPPED AGAIN
we have a new guy in town his uncle is pro .
im showing cues he walks up looks at my cues and said all the wood to wood jointed cues the threads pull out of the the shaft after a year or 2,
in front of about 15 people. i open my pool case started to lay out shafts that were 6 to 8 years old. he just walked away.
showing cues is tough people bump the cues its like you need to show the cues in rubber room.
sorry this all off the subject
MMike
Someone at the hall was looking at my new JD cue with the veneered window boxes. He commented on not liking decal cues.
Ummmm, ok, whatever buddy. Oh, I see you are playing with a Cooper Wal Mart cue. Well, Cooper does make sports equipment, right.
Ummmm, ok, whatever buddy. Oh, I see you are playing with a Cooper Wal Mart cue. Well, Cooper does make sports equipment, right.
bsa triumph motorcycles
i bet everyone thinks that bsa motorcycles stood for british small arms.
wrong B@STARD STOPPED AGAIN
we have a new guy in town his uncle is pro .
im showing cues he walks up looks at my cues and said all the wood to wood jointed cues the threads pull out of the the shaft after a year or 2,
in front of about 15 people. i open my pool case started to lay out shafts that were 6 to 8 years old. he just walked away.
showing cues is tough people bump the cues its like you need to show the cues in rubber room.
sorry this all off the subject
MMike
The threads pull out?! :yikes:
Jeezus I better go check my 27 year old McDermott. I bet the decals are peeling off too!
LOL!
Every time my wife's best friend comes over with her husband he has to tell me about this bike I have to go see. Been telling me for months. Apparently it's a 1966 Sportster Panhead.
That I have got to see......must be a one of a kind.
no, we've already talked
youre good:thumbup:
i think bubinga would be good choice
let me see what i can find
randywhite30
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I sure hope you corrected him.