Cueman is da bomb!!!

[blud]

thanks

That is not exactly right but pretty close. I used to get you to put on tips for me at the Wagon Wheel in Atlanta and was fasinated watching you work. Our old friend Harley then bought a lathe from you and then later I bought Harley's lathe from him when he got something else. I can't remember if I was with Harley when he picked up the lathe from you or not. I might have been. It was one of your earlier wood lathes without any spindle bore. I then made a ton of modifications to it and then picked up some similar wood lathes at Home Depot and started modifying them like mine and selling them. I modified it to where you could do joint work and so on with it. I built my first couple of cues with it. So anyone who asks me, I tell them Leonard was the inspiration for me getting into cue building, repair and lathe building. I also know without you the major cue building boom of the 90's might not have happened at all or it might have been several years later. I am very happy with the Saw tapering machine. Like you said I use it all the time.

Thanks so much, Chris, for your kind words.

It's been a long, long road to get where we both are, in this industry...
I do remember Harley, and you coming to see Janice and me in the hotel room, many years back.
I worked pretty hard at helping others to get started. I could of just said no, when one of you guys wanted and needed help, but that's not my way of doing things. I, think I sold around 400 of those lathes like your talking about. Many of the top cuemakers back then [ only a small hand full of them],were happy to see someone doing repairs so they could keep building cues. Gus Zambouty, and Dan Janes were two who thanked me way back then.
I've now sold over 125 CNC machines, and many cues in my live time, at 68, I'm coming back, with more, and newer machines, and new cues. I won't be traveling much, but I, now have about 40 cues back logded at this time, I, in the process of building a new state of the art shop.

Owning a steak house takes lots of time too. But, I've got it for sale, and gonna try to retire again, set back build cues and machines, which I love doing. all the best to you, Chris, your a credit to our industry.
god bless
blud
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PS, BTW, our steak house just made it in the Texas Monthly Magazine, were in the top 40 in the whole state.. Pretty good for just being opened less than a year.....Suzanne and me are really proud of that...

 

[cueman]

Thanks so much, Chris, for your kind words.


PS, BTW, our steak house just made it in the Texas Monthly Magazine, were in the top 40 in the whole state.. Pretty good for just being opened less than a year.....Suzanne and me are really proud of that...

I wish you were closer as I love a good steak.

 

[Zagiflyer]

We don't want Chris to get too big a head but I will heap on some more praise. When I bought my lathe from Chris he spent a lot of time answering questions. They say customer service is dead but Cuesmith is the exception. If more companies were run like Chris' operation the world would be a better place. I also think he is a very good engineer, my Cuesmith Deluxe is a very neat machine and allows me to have a pretty cool hobby. There's no way that I could fit some giant metal lathe in my basement and I don't have the skills and access to machinery that would be necessary to create all the fixtures and modifications that would be necessary to make a machine like that work for me. What will he think of next?