Esoteric cue:thumbup:
Here is a 4 point player with 16 Ivory Inlays, Irish linen, box veneered rings with 2 shafts.
Butt: 13.6oz without weight bolt...
Shaft1: 3.5oz - 12.7mm (lightly used)
Shaft2: 4.0oz - 13.18mm (Brand NEW shaft)
$1650 - Shipping and Insurance included.
Esoteric cues are all designed to be slightly forward balanced so adding a rear weight and bringing it up to about 19.25 would not aft load the weight and balance.
Other Features:
Parabolic Tapered Shafts with modern pro taper climb
Parabolic Tapered Butt Geometry
Butts Built of solid laminated maple full core
Flat Face Joint with big modified pin 3/8" x 14
Garolite Shaft Inserts
Here are the progress pics of the build:
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=288424
Here is some info:
Esoteric's History
Our Company, "Esoteric Cue"is home to Cue Makers Ray Hernandez and Rick Geschrey. Ray, a Tool & Die Engineer of 40 years also happens to be the last cue maker to work in the Omega DPK shop and trained Rick in his cue making journey. Rick had a cue repair business in his pool hall and was ready to start building cues. After Omega DPK closed their doors, Rick put up the capitol to develop a Custom Cue Shop with Ray as the Master Cue Maker and Design Engineer. Over the past 8 years they have developed the shop equipment and machining procedures to produce what they feel is a world class product.
From the start of their operations Ray insisted that the 3/8"x14 Omega Style Modified Joint Pin with the Garolite shaft insert using the parabolic taper was the direction to pursue. Ray & Rick had the tooling developed for the pin to be manufactured to a high accuracy tolerance. Ray also programed a parabolic shaft taper on the CNC to produce a taper bar for the table saw shaft cutting machine to create a taper with a bit more spine than the Omega contour creating a very stiff hit.
While Ray sold his Esoteric "Hernadez Signature Cues", Rick personally built 50 cues as his beta testing model that he gave away free to his league members, employees and friends at his Billiards Cafe. These cues were observed in the field over years and slight adjustment improvements were implemented before Rick sold his first cue as he was then confident in his refined skills sets as a cue builder and the end product's standard for quality.
After building about 70 cues Rick re developed his in house shop procedures and QA QC program and changed the butt construction design of the Esoteric Cue to a 100% full cored units instead of the A-Joint Pin joinery. He also re designed the butt contour to have a slightly thinner handle as this new contour has a parabolic curve taper from the butt cap to the A-Joint area, then the fore arm is conical to the joint. This geometry, the shaft taper and full core construction creates the hit of these cue. Esoteric Cue have a quiet solid hit due the the laminated maple dowel core.
The cue shown here is cue 143 and Rick is now the sole cue maker producing cues at Esoteric but Ray now 72 years old comes into the shop and builds a custom cues now and then for his select local customers.
Here is a 4 point player with 16 Ivory Inlays, Irish linen, box veneered rings with 2 shafts.
Butt: 13.6oz without weight bolt...
Shaft1: 3.5oz - 12.7mm (lightly used)
Shaft2: 4.0oz - 13.18mm (Brand NEW shaft)
$1650 - Shipping and Insurance included.
Esoteric cues are all designed to be slightly forward balanced so adding a rear weight and bringing it up to about 19.25 would not aft load the weight and balance.
Other Features:
Parabolic Tapered Shafts with modern pro taper climb
Parabolic Tapered Butt Geometry
Butts Built of solid laminated maple full core
Flat Face Joint with big modified pin 3/8" x 14
Garolite Shaft Inserts
Here are the progress pics of the build:
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=288424
Here is some info:
Esoteric's History
Our Company, "Esoteric Cue"is home to Cue Makers Ray Hernandez and Rick Geschrey. Ray, a Tool & Die Engineer of 40 years also happens to be the last cue maker to work in the Omega DPK shop and trained Rick in his cue making journey. Rick had a cue repair business in his pool hall and was ready to start building cues. After Omega DPK closed their doors, Rick put up the capitol to develop a Custom Cue Shop with Ray as the Master Cue Maker and Design Engineer. Over the past 8 years they have developed the shop equipment and machining procedures to produce what they feel is a world class product.
From the start of their operations Ray insisted that the 3/8"x14 Omega Style Modified Joint Pin with the Garolite shaft insert using the parabolic taper was the direction to pursue. Ray & Rick had the tooling developed for the pin to be manufactured to a high accuracy tolerance. Ray also programed a parabolic shaft taper on the CNC to produce a taper bar for the table saw shaft cutting machine to create a taper with a bit more spine than the Omega contour creating a very stiff hit.
While Ray sold his Esoteric "Hernadez Signature Cues", Rick personally built 50 cues as his beta testing model that he gave away free to his league members, employees and friends at his Billiards Cafe. These cues were observed in the field over years and slight adjustment improvements were implemented before Rick sold his first cue as he was then confident in his refined skills sets as a cue builder and the end product's standard for quality.
After building about 70 cues Rick re developed his in house shop procedures and QA QC program and changed the butt construction design of the Esoteric Cue to a 100% full cored units instead of the A-Joint Pin joinery. He also re designed the butt contour to have a slightly thinner handle as this new contour has a parabolic curve taper from the butt cap to the A-Joint area, then the fore arm is conical to the joint. This geometry, the shaft taper and full core construction creates the hit of these cue. Esoteric Cue have a quiet solid hit due the the laminated maple dowel core.
The cue shown here is cue 143 and Rick is now the sole cue maker producing cues at Esoteric but Ray now 72 years old comes into the shop and builds a custom cues now and then for his select local customers.
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