David Kikel cues HELP!!
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Difficult person to deal with. His cues are well made. Most every Kikel I've ever seen has rounded points, so I assume CNC'ed.
dey is be good... what more do you need to know? Are you asking if you should buy that local one and try to sell it here?
As easily as you posted this, you could look up David on google and read hundreds of comments. He makes gorgeous cues that play well. He is a student of Bill Strouds, which is a fairly strong pedigree.
What more would you like to know?
As easily as you posted this, you could look up David on google and read hundreds of comments. He makes gorgeous cues that play well. He is a student of Bill Strouds, which is a fairly strong pedigree.
What more would you like to know?
half fast bankr said:
Agreed, Dave Kikel's precision and detail is very good. His shafts I will note also IMO have very very clean grain and hit still very consistent. His cues always hit consistent!!! His detail again is one of the better makers out there. Just IMO
Contact jamie @ new2youqs.comJFORNEY36 said:
He sells Kikel cues.
I bought 1 from jamie, excellent cue, excellent cue-dealer
Salamander said:
I do not believe Dave is difficult to deal with. I have worked with him for 3 years, and if he was difficult our partnership would not have lasted that long I can assure you.
Dave does not use CNC. He uses a pantogragh and constructs his cues with similar techniques as Bill Stroud and Ernie Gutierrez. He is a true perfectionist and his cues are well built, and play even better.
Wormy one, Excellent point about the Panto. For the 'new to cue' fella's, they would both appear to be the same thing, but as they will learn, are very different.
Duane remick said:Contact jamie @ new2youqs.com
He sells Kikel cues.
I bought 1 from jamie, excellent cue, excellent cue-dealer
Thanks Duane! You must have posted that while I was typing my previous post.
We will have a large selection of Kikel cues at Valley Forge in booth 41, including a very high end Kikel in the $7,000.00 range.
John Wright first introduced me to Kikel's cues back in 98-99. Among the many 'thank you's' I owe him, this is just but one more!
half fast bankr said:
What is the difference? I've only purchased and played with cues that have spliced points, I lik'em sharp. At any rate, aren't pantographed points and cnc'ed points basically inlays?
As to Kikel being "difficult" to deal with, to each his own. I'm not the only one around here that thinks so.
Hmmm, let's say a pantograph is like a painters brush whereas a CNC/CAD/CAM are like printing presses. The above analogy may open a small can of worms, but it would be the general conveyance of the ideology behind it.
half fast bankr said:
I know that with a pantograph you can "trace" out what you want to have cut. Kikel would use for instance a "mold" (template) for a point, trace and cut, and inlay the wood. Isn't that the basic idea?
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Dave's cues are very nice. His work is very clean. We conversed about a problem customer and he couldn't have been nicer. I think this problem customer is a clown, and I don't believe a word he said, as opposed to what Dave said.
JV
JV
Salamander said:
All the points on these cues look nice and sharp to me!
http://www.new2youqs.com/cues/kikel.html
Lisa
ridewiththewind said:
Look a little closer
ridewiththewind said:
Lisa,
The last point is definitely rounded. Trust me, they are flat bottom points, similar to the points Bill Stroud does. The inner veneers are pointed.
JV
Need better pics, but I'd guess their rounded. His mitre work and alignment is pretty strong though!!!