Pretty dam strong beginner to have taught more cuemakers the ways than any other.....and many are very well known. You don’t think all those carom players and trick shot guys wanted one of his cues because he had pretty ****ing hair do ya?
Probably in hof and selected with a dozen makers to be in the Smithsonian display pre2011 because he had all that pussy in his house.....
Go get you a something like a carmelli with ivory vomited all over it you should be happy with that masterful tasteless ugly shit.
Dennis’s cues tell a story about himself the player and the wood......that is very rare for many and I’ll use his own words in describing it “wood butchers”.
Money didn’t just get you a wand from the man.....he wasn’t for sale you had to earn that wood and his work.
There’s not another maker alive I believe that so many tears will be shed when they go as has been with the passing of a wild haired strange old man wearing tape measure suspenders.
For years while everyone was sleeping around following a crowd Dennis was beating his own drum in his way and did just that till he parted this place.
Tho totally different in just about every way I always found to Dennis to be the same exact type as another famous wood worker Sam maloof...he never got why people paid so much money for his work but what he didn’t see was everyone wanted a piece of him to hold onto it just came in the form of chairs and tables....Dennis was captivating and stoically believed what he believed, and stuck to those guns till his last breath, most ain’t got that kind of spine and sway when the breeze changes letting others dictate what they should and are gonna do.
One of my favorite possessions is a titlist forearm that has some cracks below the points Dennis had turned down years ago....and a little bundle of maple for butts wrapped in duct tape with sharpied address but no sender name (someone may have known name at post office and stole the wood he said lmfao) and my name and address on it. He was weird as **** and so am I and I loved the man for it....showed many of us it’s ok to be...and should all be....strangely different.
At least for a beginner lol he was never a copiest.....he single handedly kept the saw art of vignuax Alice to live on when it was basically at deaths door.....and man I love that cuz I get tired of looking at all these cues that seem to look the same over and over and over. What an loss of craft that would have been if not for food like that.
I could keep going on all day but I got a river to sort.
-Greyghost
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. It was just maybe last year I remembered finally to ship Mark the money for the 3/4 butt. 
