custo, cues and makers,

Also your a 'cue-maker', you could at least try and be professional about it, i mean, what's up with that "Cue Thieves" section, complete joke and has nothing to do with cue-making. In all the cue-makers website i've been to, they just talk about how their cues are made and so on and we actually learn from it, they don't post bs and start bitchin on they page.
 
Listen man! I tried to stay out of your stupid crap for soo long. I don't come to forums trying to make enemies, i go there to learn and just for the love of the game.
"Are you going to bring that gang over here to ruin this
forum" and what gang are you talking about exactly? You even said on your page that a certain some one unlike you does not have time to be posting in forums to bad mouth anyone and yet you right like 9 pages on your page bitchin about BS. And i don't even know anyone in any forums in person.
"Why not stay out of the agrument until your English has improved enough " gee i didn't think this was grammar school. You are correct i am filipino, but just to let you know i have trouble speaking tagalog, since i speak English most of the time. I don't even like talking in tagalog, and most pinoys here make fun of pinoys with accent or speak tagalog fluintly...have you heard the term FOB before?
"however I am in your country trying to make a difference instead of leaving it. " Difference in what exactly? By bad mouthing most of them. I've read the racist crap that you posted. If you don't like it there then get the hell out.
Doesn't it make you think why people are pissed at you?
 
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Hi Mr Powell, the reason why the moderator did not delete my post was because it was not an attack. I really don't know why u view it as an attack. Can you specifically quote my previous post which attacked u?!?!
 
i wouldn't be surprise if this thread gets deleted...really to much BS and i apologize, you can pm me Mr. Powell if you have something to say.
 
blud said:
HOWDY FOLKS,
I have been watching the thread about which cues are best and so on. I think it's un-fair to post opinions about who can build the best cue. No one, and I mean no one should make that call, period. This could possibly hurt many of the cuemakers of today.
They all need to feed there family's.

I am known to build great playing cues, and so are 100's of others. SO WHAT??????????

My cues are not for everyone and everyone's not for my cues. This applys to all cuemakers and customers alike.

No one can make that call of who's the best of the best..
As cuemakers go, it would be unfair to not include all cuemakers in the poll. So why not let each buyer deside on our own. This would be fair to one and all.

Let the cue buyer go for themselves, after all he or she is spending the cash. Let them make up there own mind to as how a cue hits the ball.

WOULD YOU FOLKS WHO ARE GIVING ADVICE, LIKE TO HAVE SOMEONE PICK YOUR CUE FOR YOU, OR WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND?

In my opinion, rating cuemakers is wrong.

Not trying to offen anyone folks, OK.

Thanks
Blud
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anyways back to the topic.....
it is true that it's unfair and it could kill someones income, but that's just how the market works, everything getse rated from Coke vs Pepsi from which car is better and so on and so forth. It is unfair but that's just how it is. It worse for people who have their own business like a cuemaker for ex.
"WOULD YOU FOLKS WHO ARE GIVING ADVICE, LIKE TO HAVE SOMEONE PICK YOUR CUE FOR YOU, OR WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND?" But this is how most people make up their mind, by researching and word of mouth/ratings. If they here only good things about brand "A" then obviously they would most likely lean into buying it. But hey if ones a good cue-maker then that person has nothing to worry about. Isn't this how cue makers get good reputation, by being rated. Like you yourself Mr.Blud, when i first started learning this game, you're the first cue maker (custom) that i've heard of and only good things, until the past azbilliards forum but still, first impression last longer.
 
Zims Rack said:
A Ford owner educates their friends that Ford is the best thing out there! Chevy does the same thing, Pontiac...same thing, they all say theirs is the best...well for a 16 year old female, she's going to believe who she trusts and buys what they have or say, then 2 months later it's not her style!
All Blud is saying is give everyone the chance to decide for them selves, they need to test drive more than a couple to determine what fits them!

...Zim
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yes it is true but a car is way different than a cue. How is it exactly possible to shoot with alot of cues. Not many people shoot with a custom let alone a certain custom you want to inquire for. Well I guesse it's not just custom but all cues. First you gotta find a guy that owns one then you gotta ask the guy and if he's kind enough he would let you try and shoot, and that's an if. That's why most people rely on word of mouth, might tnot be a good choice but you can only do so much to find out if something is right for you. For instance, i want to save up money to buy a cue and one of the cues i'm leaning towards to is Jacoby. How in the world am i suppose to know if this is the right cue for me, and as you probably already know in your Domiak cue thread i am kinda interested in them aswell. I live in Toronto, it would be impossible for me to find anyone that shoots with either. That's why you just ask people like wut i did in your thread on how they shoot, but i just don't ask any people for opinions and so should other people, always ask people that has experience with something to have at least an idea on what it is like.
 
Cardinal_Syn said:
yes it is true but a car is way different than a cue. How is it exactly possible to shoot with alot of cues. Not many people shoot with a custom let alone a certain custom you want to inquire for. Well I guesse it's not just custom but all cues. First you gotta find a guy that owns one then you gotta ask the guy and if he's kind enough he would let you try and shoot, and that's an if. That's why most people rely on word of mouth, might tnot be a good choice but you can only do so much to find out if something is right for you. For instance, i want to save up money to buy a cue and one of the cues i'm leaning towards to is Jacoby. How in the world am i suppose to know if this is the right cue for me, and as you probably already know in your Domiak cue thread i am kinda interested in them aswell. I live in Toronto, it would be impossible for me to find anyone that shoots with either. That's why you just ask people like wut i did in your thread on how they shoot, but i just don't ask any people for opinions and so should other people, always ask people that has experience with something to have at least an idea on what it is like.
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that's true...it is very difficult. and you know what,,,,in the end, i have found that people are too lazy to invest the time. or many times, it doesn't even matter. they have $xxxx to spend, and they'll buy the nicest looking, not even caring to find out what suits them.
 
blud said:
You guys have surely gotten away from the subject matter. With your remark towards each other, you both should consider not posting or at least post in private.
blud
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well, the thread WAS going along nicely.....now it's turning into the "other" forums.
 
blud said:
Coming soon, what and how cues are made from, step by step.
Blud
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I'd rather read "The Bludworth name" by Geffner (in Billiard Digest).

Yours is an interesting career story. You built a reputation and raised a family, sold the business to someone who sent it on a downward spiral, and are now working hard to reclaim the glory that was once Bludworth.

I wonder if Geffner would be interested? I think so...there's enough juicy morsels in your career for Geffner to work with.

PoolMouse
 
good morning poolmouse, I guess that's one article that i missed, or just don't remember. What month and year? Leave me you phone number and i'll call you. Send it via my private e-mail

bludworth@direcway.com

thanks
blud
 
blud said:
good morning poolmouse, I guess that's one article that i missed, or just don't remember. What month and year? Leave me you phone number and i'll call you. Send it via my private e-mail

bludworth@direcway.com

thanks
blud
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Sorry if it looked like I was pointing to an existing article.

What I meant to say was that your career story is much like the stories Geffner likes to write about. Former champions with answers to long standing questions...or controversial, high profile competitors who are misunderstood.

In your case, you started a successful cue business and sold it to someone who clearly tarnished the company name...now you're back in control of the company, trying to whip it back into shape so it can regain it's position on the A-list where it belongs.

It's the long road back that Geffner likes to write about...the struggles against the odds.

I hope he's reading this...

PoolMouse
 
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Poolmouse, i am ready when he is. Just contact him and let me know when.
blud
 
Blud,

new here..not sure if this was answered before

1. How do I differentiate your work from the other bludworth cue ?

2. When constructing a cue is it normal to put the wrap on the cue before the cue is Finished ?, or is it the other way around, Finish First , then apply the wrap ?

Would there be problems if the wrap was done first prior to finishing the cue ?

thanks
 
The big differance in my cues and the others, is my glue lines are very tight, and my cues have a differant balance point. Some cues are not of my design also.I could look and tell which is which. Normally you paint and then wrap the cue. For some minor repairs, we cover the wrap area, and then apply the paint.
blud
 
Bluds cues

Though I dont own one of his cues I have played with several built in the mid-eighties to as new as Nov. 2002...they are pure dynamite!! Danny Diliberto, an old friend and proven player let me hit balls with his Blud...all I can say is WOW!!

Blud...you know like I do that opinions are like...ummm...uh...you know what I'm sayin'!!

Voodoo~~~coming outta retirement soon
 
Earlier on this page, someone was wondering who was first to x-ray a cue. Personally, I don't know or care. What mattered for me was the knowlege that I aquired about the different cue makers and the changes that they made in their work as time passed on. I was forunate to have many years of x-ray experiance and some very good friends with cue collections that are extensive to say the least. Many years before I had even thought of makeing or repairing cues when I was in x-ray school, everybody had to bring something to school to x-ray( it couldn't be people or pets) and then write a report on what we saw. I just happened to grab my TAD out of curiousity. I got an 'A' because I laced my report with some color about my experiances with pool and how I aquired the cue. I think it was the only 'A' I ever got in x-ray school. Anyway, when Hank Corsair took me under his wing many years later and showed me how to make sneaky petes, I remembered that old x-ray and dug it out to show to him. He thought that was pretty cool and asked me to x-ray one of his. The rest is history. I now have x-rays of cues that were built in the late 1800's. Some of my films are getting so old that the silver in the film is starting to tarnish so of course the films are unreadable. I've only showed them to a few people but they never fail to amaze. If ever a picture was worth a thousand words, these truely were. I only wish there was some way to preserve them. I'm now in my 23rd. year of learning about wood, buckhorn and many other materials that I use in my cues. I hope that I can continue to learn as long as I live and work in this profession. Like every other cue maker on the planet, I am opinionated about cue making. But not so full of my opinion that I can't learn. I think I would become bored with it all if there was nothing left to learn as I did with medical
x-ray some 8 years ago. Please feel free to contact me at zylrcue@yahoo.com if you have any questions about my cues or my new "Ivor-x" ferrules. Or if you already have my ferrules and would like to share some feedback. All opinions are welcome.
Kerry Zeiler / ZYLR Handcrafted Cues
 
Hi Kerry,
It is quite amazing for me to find out that there is another cuemaker/rad tech. It is really an advantage to have access to radiographic equipment as it's easier to discover internal components or construction type of any cue. It also is very helpful for r&d of our own cues. Did you get to try putting together the A-joint under fluoro using different thread patterns and watching how the metal dust impregnated adhesive travels within the cavity?

Regarding Ivor-x, thank you for answering my questions. I like its being cuemaker friendly (easy to work on). Reporting on its playability may take some time though so all I can say for now is that it didn't change the sound produced and the playing characteristic of my shaft that had the Ivorene3.
 
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