How often does your cuemaker provide updates like this (click here)?
Click on the pics and zoom in on the photo.
This is pretty incredible.
JoeyA
Click on the pics and zoom in on the photo.
This is pretty incredible.
JoeyA
Cue building UPDATES
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When I had my Fanelli built, Paul gave me detailed email updates along the way with pictures, starting with blocks of wood glued together. I posted a thread showing it all. Unfortunaely the pictures are now lost as the hosting site had a change.
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=150850&highlight=fanelli
A bigger shop like Southwest - they tell you that your cue is getting ready to be started and 50% deposit is due. Then she will email stating that the neck of the cue is completed and the other 50% is due. Finally, you get emailed when it is done.
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=150850&highlight=fanelli
A bigger shop like Southwest - they tell you that your cue is getting ready to be started and 50% deposit is due. Then she will email stating that the neck of the cue is completed and the other 50% is due. Finally, you get emailed when it is done.
Dz cues
Oh yeah! Bob will get with you. What you showed is actually not that much. I had drawings of each inlay and every piece of the build. Probably close to once a week or so. Keeps you excited. I stopped counting e mails at about sixty! I doubt any other cue maker will out communicate Bob. Great guy, great cue. Built my first true custom. Look in his gallery and you will easily find mine. It's the most different. Lay my cue out with ten other cues on the table and it stands out like a yellow motorcycle!! LOL.
Oh yeah! Bob will get with you. What you showed is actually not that much. I had drawings of each inlay and every piece of the build. Probably close to once a week or so. Keeps you excited. I stopped counting e mails at about sixty! I doubt any other cue maker will out communicate Bob. Great guy, great cue. Built my first true custom. Look in his gallery and you will easily find mine. It's the most different. Lay my cue out with ten other cues on the table and it stands out like a yellow motorcycle!! LOL.
Kevin Varney kept me up to date on my cue til I received it...also my break cue from him......then well you all know
That Man is a True Professional. If I could snap out of Sugartree Madness, I would have a cue built by him.
I think that is so cool that cue makers post photo updates as the cue is being built. It is a great tool that cue makers can utilize to keep customers off of their back and makes for great public relations.
Bob built me a shaft with his carbon fiber tube inserts and it was the easiest transaction I have ever had with a cue maker despite my proclivity to share my input.
I just thought it was super unusual for a cue maker to refularly update their customer on a cue or shaft like this.
Glad to see other cue makers doing similar things.
JoeyA
Bob built me a shaft with his carbon fiber tube inserts and it was the easiest transaction I have ever had with a cue maker despite my proclivity to share my input.
I just thought it was super unusual for a cue maker to refularly update their customer on a cue or shaft like this.
Glad to see other cue makers doing similar things.
JoeyA
That is pretty rare Joey, and impressive too. Score another one in Bob's column. With the exception of andy Gilbert, every cue ordered has been trying on one level or another.
Insert
I also went with one shaft with the insert. That's the shaft I play with. Plays good, not a ld guy myself and Bob doesn't speak of it as a ld as I remember, it's just something he does. Just science, like kryptonite and solar flares and black holes type stuff.
I think that is so cool that cue makers post photo updates as the cue is being built. It is a great tool that cue makers can utilize to keep customers off of their back and makes for great public relations.
Bob built me a shaft with his carbon fiber tube inserts and it was the easiest transaction I have ever had with a cue maker despite my proclivity to share my input.
I just thought it was super unusual for a cue maker to refularly update their customer on a cue or shaft like this.
Glad to see other cue makers doing similar things.
JoeyA
I also went with one shaft with the insert. That's the shaft I play with. Plays good, not a ld guy myself and Bob doesn't speak of it as a ld as I remember, it's just something he does. Just science, like kryptonite and solar flares and black holes type stuff.
A lot of great cue makers out there but Bob is up there.
Besides, he likes photography as well. Pretty impressive that he would take the extra time to go all out like this.
Besides, he likes photography as well. Pretty impressive that he would take the extra time to go all out like this.
That's why Bob will be my first option when I want to get my first custom cue. Great quality, great photos, nice deals and happy customers.
I'm still waiting for lee peppers pictures of mine. Is 3 years too long to wait??
I've never seen anything like that in all my years of buying and selling cues. I've had cue makers give updates, but never that detailed with so many pictures.
I'm still waiting for lee peppers pictures of mine. Is 3 years too long to wait??
Thanks for making me laugh! Also, Sorry for your loss. That guy's rep went downhill quick! First build, I got 4 pics, email responses to almost anything I asked him about and a cue in 15 months of waiting. Second cue, I got two pics, a handful of email responses if you can even call them that and then screwed. Thanks to Doug (digdug) for actually showing me my cue parts did still exist somewhere and for being willing to take on the completion of my cue. After 2+ years of supposed build time with Lee Peppers only a forearm was produced and I was told for the final year that my cue was almost ready for finish. Nice, huh!
For a positive build, I'd refer to a cue i had built by Leon Sly. Nice amount of pics, comparable to what Bob produces in various build stages and great communication. The cue was delivered a few months from the predicted finish date but that was only after he had built a second forearm to make my cue even sharper looking. All the time reachable by phone or email and he reached out to me without being prompted for an update.
Thanks again Leon!
Good shooting to all!
Kevin
Kelly is awesome with updates! I'm definitely happy I chose him, or he chose me lol.
Here are the pieces I chose.
This is the core that Kelly picked out. Almost too nice to be a core lol.
What the color of the purple heart will actually be
And the handle being prepared to core.
Here are the pieces I chose.
This is the core that Kelly picked out. Almost too nice to be a core lol.
What the color of the purple heart will actually be
And the handle being prepared to core.
Paul Sumrall did an excellent job keeping me up to date with emails/pictures and even a few phone calls to make sure anything and everything was ironed out. I only wanted a couple of pictures during the process (to which I mentioned for him to send at his convenience or no rush)...he went above and beyond and made the experience exciting from start to finish.
Pretty cool. At the bottom, in fine print:
This page generated by CueUpdate, program by Kelly Peterson
So someone has made a template cuemakers can use to put up online updates
with pictures and text. Clever idea, definitely a niche market.
I think most cuemakers will carefully avoid it, but it's nice to see someone
who is dedicated to sticking to a timetable.
Yep, Kelly Peterson of MVP Cues. Scroll two posts up.
He is on the forum under MVPcues.
He also developed a program to balance cues without weight bolts.