cue Making
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I"m not a cue builder
I"m not a cue builder but if someone could throw away 10K then i would build them a 1k cue charge them 10k and not care what they did. If i knew they were that stupid.bubsbug said:
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I wouldn't. Nobody burns my cues but me.
Send me 10G's then I'll let you know.
bubsbug said:
Ahh, the philosophical dilemma. Cash or Character. And out of the mouth of Bubs to boot.
Hi John, Great question. This will be a tester. The response should be interesting. Posters should consider their answers at length. TeHe
OK, this is a no-brainer for me so I may have an edge. I have a standing policy that if I know someone is a cue abuser, I won't sell them a cue, Period. And I'll tell them NO to their face and not blink. So it's not about the money. Cues in general are pretty special. I happen to think that my cues are very special. There's been a whole lotta years down this road in the learning and the building to get to the point of building a cue as I do today. There's a degree of integrity in everything that I do. I'm not selling that integrity knowing it will be abused for any amount of money. Sorry, it's not for sale.
I don't need to game the buyer or even toy with him, just part ways.
John, PM when your box isn't full.
Seriously though I don't make cues but I do dabble at making other things and I would have to say no to that request, even with that much payout.Cue
I watched Eddie Farris refuse to sell a guy another cue after he broke one on purpose after losing a set for 1000.00 in Tulsa a few years back. Sad thing was it was one I drove all the way from Fort Worth to see and more than likely purchase. The guy was just going to try it out 30mins before I got there. Smashed in a zillion pieces on the corner of the table. Paid Eddie on the spot for it, But I was out a very special cue. Eddie said it was the 2nd one he broke and Eddie said "no more". He didnt care how much money the guy had.
After the time, heart and soul some put in their work, its hard to watch someone destroy it in an instant. I can only hope to have this kind of integrity as I learn this art.
We all know we don't do this. just for the "Tons of money" we make on your cues. Each one has a part of you in it or some of your blood on it.
I ended up with a nice cue from Eddie, months down the road. But I always wonder about that cue. It could have been "the One".
I watched Eddie Farris refuse to sell a guy another cue after he broke one on purpose after losing a set for 1000.00 in Tulsa a few years back. Sad thing was it was one I drove all the way from Fort Worth to see and more than likely purchase. The guy was just going to try it out 30mins before I got there. Smashed in a zillion pieces on the corner of the table. Paid Eddie on the spot for it, But I was out a very special cue. Eddie said it was the 2nd one he broke and Eddie said "no more". He didnt care how much money the guy had.
After the time, heart and soul some put in their work, its hard to watch someone destroy it in an instant. I can only hope to have this kind of integrity as I learn this art.
We all know we don't do this. just for the "Tons of money" we make on your cues. Each one has a part of you in it or some of your blood on it.
I ended up with a nice cue from Eddie, months down the road. But I always wonder about that cue. It could have been "the One".
In the interview with Ernie Gutierrez he says that after the cue is delivered to the customer it is gone. Whatever they do with it is their business and if they want to beat it up, break it , whatever that is up to them.
I guess an interesting tangent on the original question is would you build a cue to be used in a movie knowing that it would be broken over Bad Guy #2's head ? Or if a collector wanted to use it as the worlds most expensive tomato stake or give it to his 11 year old nephew to use as a light saber?
Interesting question that I am sure each cuemaker would have their own take on.
I guess an interesting tangent on the original question is would you build a cue to be used in a movie knowing that it would be broken over Bad Guy #2's head ? Or if a collector wanted to use it as the worlds most expensive tomato stake or give it to his 11 year old nephew to use as a light saber?
Interesting question that I am sure each cuemaker would have their own take on.
bubsbug said:
I would build the cue. In fact I might be inclined to give the guy a quantity discount if he bought several. People trade cues and do other things that I would rather they didn't do. The cue belongs to them, They paid the agreed upon price. If they wan't to stick tomatoes, or burn the cues, that's their business.
This would be one of those cues I would actually enjoy building to the customer's specifications as no one would ever get to hit a ball with it. I hate building cues that I know will not play up to my specs, and usually when the customers tells you he has an idea for the greatest playing cue ever, it usually plays inferior. But I would not cut him a deal. He would pay top price knowing he was going to destroy it.
I would build it in a heart beat and when the man came to pick it up I would find out if he had any brothers who played pool also. I would hope that maybe his temperment ran in his Genes. A cue is not software. You don't rent it nor lease it. You buy it. Once the cue is sold, IT IS SOLD, it is no longer yours to do what you want with nor concern yourself about. If you buy a Bentley for 700,000 is the company supposed to get upset if you drive it on a gravel road?
Dick
Dick
There was a guy, here in Lincoln, that waited outside of the Best Buy when the Sony PS3 first went on sale. I believe he waited 2-3 days. Once paid for, he came out of the store and smashed it as a protest/statement against capitalism. As my dad would say, "some people have more money than brains."
**side note-I don't think Sony or Best Buy cared.
**side note-I don't think Sony or Best Buy cared.