Chump cuemakers

I have, but I play Cuemaker Pool, where you let the cuemaker win just enough so they don't get all *****y.
 
Plenty of great cue makers now and in the past were C players at best. Cue making takes different skills than playing. People who can do both at a high level are extremely rare.
 
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Masayoshi said:
Plenty of great cue makers now and in the past were C players at best. Cue making takes different skills than playing. People who can do both at a high level are extremely rare.
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I disagree. If you make cues and cant play at least at a B level from time to time, then you dont truly know what you can do with a cue.

Joe
 
snipershot said:
I disagree. If you make cues and cant play at least at a B level from time to time, then you dont truly know what you can do with a cue.

Joe
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I suppose I should clarify my statement. If you plan on making great playing cues, you better know how to play. If you are making cues purely for the artistic side of it, then thats a different story.

Joe
 
I don't think the cuemaker needs to be a A, B, or even a C players. However most do play the game, why else get into making cues, as long as they have a feel for what is considered a good hit with a cue. Seems like the one trait found in most of the good cuemakers is an artistic talent of being able to put ideas to wood.---Smitty
 
snipershot said:
I suppose I should clarify my statement. If you plan on making great playing cues, you better know how to play. If you are making cues purely for the artistic side of it, then thats a different story.

Joe
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I suppose engineers also need to be great race car drivers to be able to build fast race cars, shoe makers need to be great runners to make good running shoes, and sword smiths need to be be great swordsmen to make good swords.

Of course, none of those scenarios are true.

All that is required to make a great playing cue is the ability to match the required specs of someone who knows what a great cue should be like. If you have the wood working abilities to do that, you will make a great cue.
 
Well, though I don't have one and have never had one (yet, at least)...


If you want a great player to build you a cue get a Diveney.

He used a couple of my cues at the Windy City Cue Show and he'sa damn good shot.
 
So enlighten me, once a cue maker gets his design drawn out, standard length and diameter figured, balance points and weight calculated........ none of which are exactly secret formulas, please give me a specific example of what a good pool playing cue maker would be able to add consistently to his or her cues?



Edit... geez, guys, please resize you photo inserts so you don't mess up the threads.
 
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Harold Smith said:
I don't think the cuemaker needs to be a A, B, or even a C players. However most do play the game, why else get into making cues, as long as they have a feel for what is considered a good hit with a cue. Seems like the one trait found in most of the good cuemakers is an artistic talent of being able to put ideas to wood.---Smitty
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Just to add to this.

Oddly enough there are many cuemakers out there that barely played the game or didn't play at all before becoming cue builders.

The guys at Bella Sera Cues went from building Its George Cases and working with Bill Schick to building great cues on their own. They weren't pool players to start.

Abe Rich never stepped into a pool hall.

Pretty sure Laurie Franklin doesn't play pool (much if any ever). It would be interesting to find out who in the South West shop have much pool playing experience.

It's rare however. Kind of like the great Anil Gupta, a famous tattoo artist (famous to anyone who knows the history of tattoos in the US that is) who had already been regarded as a top 5 tattooist in the USA yet he didn't have a single tattoo on him (at the time - early 1990's). Rare, for sure.

Freddie
 
yes.What makes a great cue isn't exactly secret. If I hit with a cue and hits great I don't give a thought to how good a player the person was who built it.
 
3andstop said:
So enlighten me, once a cue maker gets his design drawn out, standard length and diameter figured, balance points and weight calculated........ none of which are exactly secret formulas, please give me a specific example of what a good pool playing cue maker would be able to add consistently to his or her cues?



Edit... geez, guys, please resize you photo inserts so you don't mess up the threads.
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I agree for the most part. For me a great cue builder is the one who can deliver the cue to me at the exact specifications i lay out when i order it. For me that has been and will continue to be Brandon and Dave Jacoby.
 
cuemaker03 said:
Would you buy a cue from a Cuemaker who couldn't play a lick?
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It would seem that a cuemaker would be a player but not necessarily so. I don't believe Richard black could play at all really. Tim Scruggs used to work in a pool room and may have been able to play a little but it was because he went to work for Joss that he learned cue making. I have to tell you, from years of going to the BCA show and seeing many of the name cue makers at the pool room after hours. A "LOT" of them can't hardly make a ball. They play like your average Tuesday night league player.
 
I guess I don't really care how the guy plays, as long as the cue plays good. If you as a player can't tell the difference in a good hitting cue, and a bad one, well then...


On the upside, my guy plays lights out. Probably borderline shortstop speed. On the right day STRONG short stop speed. Not to bad for a blindman!!!! LOL!!!


I wonder how the guy that built Shane's Cue-Tec plays??? Maybe that's why he's so good!!!!
 
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