here is the home page
http://www.nitticues.com/
see contact on top to the right
tell him larry says hi
you will love his cues
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Chris Nitti shows strong at the ICCS
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here is the home page
http://www.nitticues.com/
see contact on top to the right
tell him larry says hi
you will love his cues
:thumbup:
This is probably because you offered him a Schon and a Centennial in trade.
JV
Might have bin a Joss LOL
if he wants to call me here is my cell 732-887-7557
Chris
Chris
Thanks Kevin
You've got a great room and I always try to visit when I'm in Philly. It feels like home.
Never even heard from him .......
Geez, I don't know...
You think you might wanna give him like a business day? Perhaps he might like to have a Sunday off every so often, just thinking out loud here.
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I can appreciate everything you guys have said about the quality of Chris' cues, but am I the only person to see the poor quality of the dot inlays up the right side of the left window, in the first close-up pic? That's probably why he didn't want anyone looking to close at the cue. I'm sorry but to have a cue with that kind of quality seemingly everywhere else, that's poorly done for sure. No disrespect meant whatsoever, merel making an observation. I would expect more in a cue of this price.
If your talking about the butt sleeve, I think your seeing the reflection off the silver rings that border
the dots.
the dots.
It is in very poor form to make a post like this without either seeing the cue in person, or seeing higher quality up close photos. There is no way you can tell the quality of work from the OP photos. Not cool...
I'd like to further this thought with the opinion that its in poor form period. Regardless of photos or venue. Every craftsman has there differences when it comes to quality or even personality. This diversity is what makes cues beautiful and desirable. If everyone made a similar perfect cue then this gallery would not exist. Its time people start embracing cues for what they are and not what they think they should be. I see cues all the time that are not for me but i appreciate them for there contribution.
Chis's inlay work is some of the tightest in the business. As has been said, it's the silver rings around the dots that you are seeing. So, it might have been appropriate to
ask what those reflections where, but it was inapproriate to say he did crappy work.
I would expect an apology to Chris, or at minimum edit your post.
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I agree with previous posters....very poor form to critique without being in the hand or quality close-up photos.
I have seen a couple of Chris' cues..one simple, one a bit fancier...and the quality of fit and finish was excellent....in both cues.
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I have seen a couple of Chris' cues..one simple, one a bit fancier...and the quality of fit and finish was excellent....in both cues.
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What could you expect from Jonesey cues?He came into customs one year ago and still haven't catch everything,ok nothing about pictures and making photos.He still hasn't learned that cues on pictures can look different then in person.
Hope he will one day,as I hope he will learn something about manners and atittude as well.
Hope he will one day,as I hope he will learn something about manners and atittude as well.
Are you saying that a cuemaker built some cues for a cue show and didn't want anyone to look at them?
Let's see...I'm going to make some fancy cues for the ICCS, spend a bunch of money to get to the show,
but when I get there I don't want anybody to look close at my cues.
That would be like having more fun and enjoying it less, or an SNL skit.
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For real, you don't build a cue for the "I of G damn CCS" and hope no ones looks at it closely.
In fact, you build it expecting it to be judged by the absolute best of builders and highest profile collectors on the whole dang world to the Nth degree. There's a pretty good reason why Nitti cues are consistently invited back to show there being the one of if not thee smallest builder in participation. His blind auction cues are also one of the most consistently sold year to year.
Being intimately familiar with this cue, I can tell you it's as physically perfect as a cue can be made by a man and the hands God gave him. It would have been cut into firewood had it been anything less.
I did ask a question, because of an observation. I don't know how you can expect any clearer or up close pictures. It looks extrememly clear on my screen. Yet everyone wants to hop right up on their soap box and start to preach. If you don't know that being in this business, or any business or hobby where you are demonstrating quality workmanship, it will be judged by others, and rightfully so. If it is just a glare off of rings then that explains it. Which is why I was surprised to see what I was seeing and asked for an explanation. But like any other subject on this forum there are always 15 people that want to cry foul about simple things. I even said in the original post that it appears to be much higher quality than a cue I would expect to see poor workmanship!
Simple questions need simple answers, not 15 people getting on the bandwagon to try to persecute me for asking a question. Ridiculous.. I've been building cues and restoring classic cars for 25 years, I expect people to judge my work, ask questions about what they consider a flaw, if they don't then they're probably not experienced in what they're looking at.
You guys create your own drama...
Simple questions need simple answers, not 15 people getting on the bandwagon to try to persecute me for asking a question. Ridiculous.. I've been building cues and restoring classic cars for 25 years, I expect people to judge my work, ask questions about what they consider a flaw, if they don't then they're probably not experienced in what they're looking at.
You guys create your own drama...
"I did ask a question, because of an observation."
-- The only question in your post above is a rhetorical question. You never asked if anything else could account for what you saw in the images. You made an observation and then assumed that there was no explanation other than poor workmanship as the cause.
"I even said in the original post that it appears to be much higher quality than a cue I would expect to see poor workmanship!"
-- You mention that the cue has great quality elsewhere, but then go on to say that part of it is "poorly done for sure." That doesn't exactly convey to us that you are skeptical about your observation. Rather, you just assume that there is a negligent error in the cue without thinking twice.
"You guys create your own drama... "
Your initial quoted post above leaves no room for imagination or reading between the line. Saying things like "no disrespect meant whatsoever" doesn't change the intent of your message. You never entertain the idea that perhaps your observation is due to some other phenomenon unrelated to poor workmanship. Nothing about your original post makes any of us think that you saw the "flaw" and were surprised. There was no tone of skepticism or shock; you chalked it all up to a poor job by the cuemaker. You never asked for others opinion to perhaps see if there was another explanation. If your intent in the original post was to ask if you were seeing an illusion of a flaw, then it was not conveyed at all.