last week I was in Ernies shop and he handed the one with the brown wrap, its a ligh feels so good, it's somewhere in 18-19 oz. range, i think he said 18.3 oz, it is amazing the elephant ear wrap feels so good-i'm a linen guy but this wrap might be better, I looked at the cue very carefully, Ernie got a phone call so I had along time to look at it with no distractions, there are zero flaws-its perfect in everyway. his work is getting better and better, he isnt building cues for another few weeks, he was building a new machine to do something, his shop is amazing he likes to build a batch of cues then make a new machine-he loves building machines.
This cue is a score for who ever gets it, the 2 in the pic are the only ones, when he builds 2 of any super fancy cues is because he has to tool up to make them, so he dosent do one off cues, he does two off cues but changes the colors, woods, wraps so they are differnt. He said that he makes specific tools for cues like this and only making one tool-usually for the silver work, building one cue dosent make sence but building 5 of them isnt fair to the customer because they woud be semi production, so building only 2 he makes his $$ and protects his customes-thats a very fair thing for everyone.