Dead even points and veneers

[jazznpool]

Yep, Skip was definitely the MAN...............no question :thumbup:

Barenbrugge's points are seamless milled channels too. Most people have no clue or appreciation for the labor involved in precision milling the individual channels. Dennis Searing also has been doing milled channels for the last 4-5 years.

It's too bad Skip faded away from the cue making scene. I think he got fed up with it and the relatively low money involved while he was moving up the ladder.

 

[Sloppy Pockets]

They actually found that the woods he selected were effected by some tree blight or fungus.

Scientists have been working on replicating that kind of fungal infected wood for instruments.

No, that's not what "they" found out. They found out they could reproduce the Strad tone in new instruments by using wood deliberately infected with certain funguses. Stradivari himself never used rotten wood or they would not have stood the test of time, having been played literally non-stop for over 300 years.

Sorry for the hijack, I was just trying to point out that some aesthetics favor the hard-crafted item over the machine-fabricated one. That doesn't mean I'm not in awe of what some of these guys can do with points on cues.

 

[cueaddicts]

Barenbrugge's points are seamless milled channels too. Most people have no clue or appreciation for the labor involved in precision milling the individual channels. Dennis Searing also has been doing milled channels for the last 4-5 years.

It's too bad Skip faded away from the cue making scene. I think he got fed up with it and the relatively low money involved while he was moving up the ladder.

Agreed....they really are a beautiful effect. Skip was doing this style of seamless milled channel points back in the very early '90s. Hard to imagine that was almost 25 yrs ago. I think he was the first and his master machinist background allowed him to really perfect his method. Yeah, it's sad that he did kind of fade away but real life sometimes requires you to have other priorities...

 

[ddadams]

Are Steve Dunkels points in line with the others mentioned in this thread?

 

[skins]

I don't think Dennis's veneers are done exactly like Dave or Skip did/does them...

 

[jazznpool]

I don't think Dennis's veneers are done exactly like Dave or Skip did/does them...

I've seen channels get milled with my own eyeballs at his shop in Wellington, FL on more than one occasion but you can think or believe whatever you want to think and believe. My Border Brothers cues from 2010 were among the very last cues out of the Searing shop that had mitred veneers within an ebony recut. Barenbrugge generally does not dye his channels but he has done so and I have dyed several sets for him years ago. With the exception of black, which is ebony, Dennis does dye his channels and went through quite a learning curve to learn a satisfactory process.

 

[classiccues]

Here is the thing. They all get to the end of the same road using a different car. As far as the end results being better or worse than the others, not likely. This technique is also not new to industry as it is very similar to the WICO channels of vinyl.

So there is no magic fairy dust here, its just guys utilizing there machinery as they have learned to. But Skip's limitation is his color palate, not the machining. Dennis doing his own dying is great, because his colors are in his hands.

JV

 

[jazznpool]

I agree Joe that if well executed any of the 4 methods for veneered points is acceptable in my book. It's just one aspect of the overall construction.

Here is the thing. They all get to the end of the same road using a different car. As far as the end results being better or worse than the others, not likely. This technique is also not new to industry as it is very similar to the WICO channels of vinyl.

So there is no magic fairy dust here, its just guys utilizing there machinery as they have learned to. But Skip's limitation is his color palate, not the machining. Dennis doing his own dying is great, because his colors are in his hands.

JV