Seems like Tommy/Sam is a ghost.
Hey now, good thing you spelled that the way you did.
Oh yeah, has anyone seen the front page of the Main Forum? Oh wait, here it is!
Seems like Tommy/Sam is a ghost.
Patents are funny... If the patent claim that mentions the hollow section also claims a ferrule or references a ferrule, then a shaft like the one in the pic would not violate it. It just depends how broad a claim the patent attorneys were able to get, and had the foresight to go after.
Anyway pred patents are about to expire. I fully expect complete knockoffs being mass produced on the market in the next few yrs.
It looks like he wasn't telling the whole story.
Nope, I've sent letters to two different addresses and 3 different names...filed police and FBI reports...called multiple numbers....and sent email to at least 3 different addresses....
and not one peep. Only once did I talk to someone, an older woman who lives at the V.T. Hindman address and she said she didn't know any Tommy and hung up.
That's all that there is right now.
r,
Greg
Update.
I just had a 20 minute conversation with Jess June from World Class Cues and this is what he had to say.
Jess hasn't talked to Tommy/Sam, who also went by Tony as well, in 3 or 4 months. Jess and his partner Tommy Clements (no connection to Tommy Stanfill/Tommy Hindman/Sam Engles) were out almost $10,000, so they took Tommy to court. Unfortunately they lost because the agreement they had with Tommy Stanfill was only verbal. They built all of those shafts and never saw a dime. WCC was nearly put out of business by Tommy's actions and with shop damage on two other occasions, the shop hasn't been running in months. They purchased their shop from Bill McDaniels but were unable to procure the name for the shop. So, they changed the name to WCC. The CA$H cue line came about from a guy convincing them to start a line of "lower end cues" using John Davis blanks. But, the CA$H cue line caused them a lot of problems because of Tommy. So, recently... Jess June met with John Davis when he was in town and apparently, Tommy Stanfill had talked to John Davis about working together recently/soon in the same type of capacity that Jess and Tommy were working in. Jess didn't have any more details on this but asked if I could find John Davis' phone number so he could talk to them. Jess isn't a computer guy but said he would try to get on AZ and he would try to shed any more light he could. He also said that if I wanted to take legal action, he would be more than happy to provide any support necessary. Jess did say that he has received many phone calls from people Tommy ripped off. Many more than the people posting on AZBilliards.
That's what I know right now.
Does anyone have John Davis' phone number?R,
Greg
Thanks Manwon. And happy belated 52!