Female Cuemakers

Barry S. daughter started and made one back a couple of years ago and was even featured in their local paper.
 
ironman said:
I ain't touching this one
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Is there a stigma surrounding the idea of a woman cuemaker? You said you aren't touching this one, so maybe you won't respond, but I just wonder why it is something someone wouldn't touch?

Kelly
 
Ironman wrote:
> I ain't touching this one

Kelly replied:
> You said you aren't touching this one, so maybe you
> won't respond, but I just wonder why it is something
> someone wouldn't touch?


Beats me. Perhaps he doesn't like touching women...?

-- peer
 
Kelly_Guy said:
Is there a stigma surrounding the idea of a woman cuemaker? You said you aren't touching this one, so maybe you won't respond, but I just wonder why it is something someone wouldn't touch?

Kelly
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I think he just didn't feel like putting his FLAME retarded trousers on. Posting on the Male V Female boards has proved a battle ground in the past. If you were pro or con.
 
bandido said:
Barry S. daughter started and made one back a couple of years ago and was even featured in their local paper.
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It was for a school project and the cue came out great! :)
 
gnaroz said:
It was for a school project and the cue came out great! :)
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Actually, she made two - she sold one and kept the other. I was about a grand short of buying the one up for sale. :(

But like you said, that was for a school project and she has no intention of following her father's footsteps.

Barbara
 
Rob220 said:
Has there ever been a female cuemaker?
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I believe that depends upon your definition of what entails the process of making a cue? If it is a start and stop process beginning with turning a blank butte on a lathe through the final finish coat, then it may be hard to find a woman cuemaker who does it all. However, many fine cuemakers today do not turn the blanks and also rely on advanced numerical control machines to do what at one time was a purely manual process. If on the other hand one looks upon cue making as an art and judges the finished product by the design and beauty associated with putting those designs into inlays and finishing work, then I would have to say that Bev Madden, wife of Johnny "Get Back Jack" Madden, is a cue maker extraordinaire and I would place her finish work up against any of the top cue makers of the day. Anyone who doubts it, can send me their email address and I will send you some pics of her work on my Jack Madden cues!

Cross Side Larry

Learn from the best, and beat the rest"
 
Another one that I heard of is Bill Stroud's or Ernie G's assistant who got her hair caught in a lathes chuck which gave her lacerations on her scalp. But not sure if she continued to do so after that accident.
 
bandido said:
Another one that I heard of is Bill Stroud's or Ernie G's assistant who got her hair caught in a lathes chuck which gave her lacerations on her scalp. But not sure if she continued to do so after that accident.
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One rule that was always enforced in the machine shop was if you have long hair, it should be tied back or under a hat.
 
Michael Webb said:
One rule that was always enforced in the machine shop was if you have long hair, it should be tied back or under a hat.
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Unfortunately, not all cuemakers have gone through formal machine shop operation training. What more with their assistants.
 
bruin70 said:
i don't think laurie builds cues.
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Over her career, she's been part of every aspect of building the cues. But, she certainly isn't building them today.

Fred
 
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