GTF - Bill Schick Renaissance Gods Cue

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Well I hope it's ok to show off a friend's cue and matching case.

We did this one to match Roy Malott's Bill Schick Cue. Bill did a masterpiece of a cue with four Renaissance Gods as Bill calls them engraved by Bill into four ovals on the cue.

This cue was made in 1993 and was delivered to Roy from Bill in 1994. Several month ago Bill made four ivory squares with new engravings of the renaissance gods and one with Bill's signature on it.

Roy commissioned us to make a GTF case to match the cue for his display at the ICCS. My interpretation was to take inspiration from the decoration often found in Renaissance architecture. So with that in mind we created a sort of fresco surrounding five windows housing Bill's engravings. We made the windows with snaps on either side so that the engravings could be taken out and transported separately from the case.

Here some detail pix of the cue and the case follows it. The full cue can be found here: Roy's Schick

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and the case.

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I think its an AMAZING CASE, and the cue is beautiful as well.. however the faces leave much to be desired. If they looked more like renaissance gods, less like crayon drawings.. then the case would be the best I have seen : )

just my opinion, not intending to be an ass. The case work is just amazing. I would love to own it, and just replace the engravings. The engraving that looks to be Pan , god of shepherds and flocks, is actually not bad.. the rest arent my taste.

enjoy it, will probably give you a lifetime of people asking to view your case and ask you about it.
 
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Wow, first McWorter and now Schick. You are on a roll today.


Destrukkt said:
I think its an AMAZING CASE, and the cue is beautiful as well.. however the faces leave much to be desired. If they looked more like renaissance gods, less like crayon drawings.. then the case would be the best I have seen : )

just my opinion, not intending to be an ass. The case work is just amazing. I would love to own it, and just replace the engravings. The engraving that looks to be Pan , god of shepherds and flocks, is actually not bad.. the rest arent my taste.

enjoy it, will probably give you a lifetime of people asking to view your case and ask you about it.
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Destrukkt said:
I think its an AMAZING CASE, and the cue is beautiful as well.. however the faces leave much to be desired. If they looked more like renaissance gods, less like crayon drawings.. then the case would be the best I have seen : )

just my opinion, not intending to be an ass. The case work is just amazing. I would love to own it, and just replace the engravings. The engraving that looks to be Pan , god of shepherds and flocks, is actually not bad.. the rest arent my taste.

enjoy it, will probably give you a lifetime of people asking to view your case and ask you about it.
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Sir Mr. Schick is one of the top Scrimshaw artists in the entire cue building industry. His work is generally flaw less and his reputation as a cue maker is beyond repute. In addition Bill is an incredible person who takes the time help anyone who asks for information or other help concerning cue building. If anything is flawed with the cue it is most likely the photo's.

You obviously have a great deal to learn, sometimes it is best is to quietly absorb the information you need than to speak about something you know nothing about.

By the way John, I love the case it is certainly a compliment to the cue, great job.
 
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pffffffff....

classiccues said:
look at the guys gear... are you kidding me..

It's like driving an Escort and knocking a Benz...

JV
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What's wrong with it? It says "SOLID HIT", that's sumthin' Schick is lacking, I'm sure...

Very nice case, I always liked the engraved ones but the last few you have posted are just of another level.
 
104 posts & already stepped in shit up to the neck.
"Just started...CAN'T STOP!"...now would be the time to try extra hard.
 
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I didn't really post this to become a critique of the cue. I think that when we do show and tell here courtesy should dictate that we withhold the critical comments unless invited.

I have been guilty of offering unsolicitied criticism and had my hand slapped accordingly.

That said, these pictures really don't show off the cue in it's best light. Here is a link to better pictures of the actual engravings that Bill did. http://www.indyq.com/custom/schick/index.html

At the recent ICCS show I did have the opportunity to hold and inspect this cue and it is a very well done cue. I don't know where Bill got the art that is on it, whether he created it or whether he got it from another source. For me though the main thing to remember is that gods have no faces. They are representations imagined by humans. Therefore no drawing that is made to represent an imaginary being or a being no one has ever seen can be said to inaccurate or any less than any other in terms of how "good" a representation of the subject it is.

Bill built this cue for himself, it wasn't a commissoned piece. Therefore for me personally it resonates more because it's all the expression of the artist. He agreed to sell it to Roy Malott because Roy pestered him until he did. :-) You know, the chase is sometimes as good as the acquisition. Because of the fact that Bill built this cue for himself and it commemorates the beginning of Bill and Roy's great realationship it is Roy's most cherished cue.

At the recent ICCS they had a roundtable of cue makers and I sat there and watched almost the whole thing. I guess there were about 20 cue makers present and they ranged from makers who started in the 60s to makers who have been at it for about a decade. I could be wrong about the decade because it's quite possible that no one at the table had less than 10 year's of experience. Anyway the thing that was quite evident at the table is that EVERYONE was clearly highly respectful to Bill Schick and deferential to him on the topic of cue making. Whether you as a player like his cues or not he definitely has the respect of his peers.

I was honored to finally meet him. He brought just one cue to the show and I believe that it won at least one of the awards given out, not sure if it was people's choice or cue maker's choice, but I do know that it was in a tie for collector's choice and the vote was taken many times before someone changed their mind to give the award to an AE Cue.

In conclusion it is a major honor for me to be allowed to do things like this. That Roy and others trust me to interpret their cues on expensive cases is really a dream come true for me. As you can see in this case I don't exactly march to the same drummer as a lot of my colleagues in this respect. I really try hard to get into the deeper meaning of the subject and for me this cue was not easy to interpret. To me this cue is sort of what art is about, not so literal, the faces of the gods leave it open to interpretation for the viewer. So we created the case to frame Bill's art in the period that the artist says inspired him and leave it at that.
 
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That is one great work of art in the case and it will truly compliment the great work that Bill put into the cue.
BEAUTIFUL!
Thanks for sharing these pictures with us.
 
JB Cases said:
I didn't really post this to become a critique of the cue. I think that when we do show and tell here courtesy should dictate that we withhold the critical comments unless invited.

I have been guilty of offering unsolicitied criticism and had my hand slapped accordingly.

That said, these pictures really don't show off the cue in it's best light. Here is a link to better pictures of the actual engravings that Bill did. http://www.indyq.com/custom/schick/index.html

At the recent ICCS show I did have the opportunity to hold and inspect this cue and it is a very well done cue. I don't know where Bill got the art that is on it, whether he created it or whether he got it from another source. For me though the main thing to remember is that gods have no faces. They are representations imagined by humans. Therefore no drawing that is made to represent an imaginary being or a being no one has ever seen can be said to inaccurate or any less than any other in terms of how "good" a representation of the subject it is.

Bill built this cue for himself, it wasn't a commissoned piece. Therefore for me personally it resonates more because it's all the expression of the artist. He agreed to sell it to Roy Malott because Roy pestered him until he did. :-) You know, the chase is sometimes as good as the acquisition. Because of the fact that Bill built this cue for himself and it commemorates the beginning of Bill and Roy's great realationship it is Roy's most cherished cue.

At the recent ICCS they had a roundtable of cue makers and I sat there and watched almost the whole thing. I guess there were about 20 cue makers present and they ranged from makers who started in the 60s to makers who have been at it for about a decade. I could be wrong about the decade because it's quite possible that no one at the table had less than 10 year's of experience. Anyway the thing that was quite evident at the table is that EVERYONE was clearly highly respectful to Bill Schick and deferential to him on the topic of cue making. Whether you as a player like his cues or not he definitely has the respect of his peers.

I was honored to finally meet him. He brought just one cue to the show and I believe that it won at least one of the awards given out, not sure if it was people's choice or cue maker's choice, but I do know that it was in a tie for collector's choice and the vote was taken many times before someone changed their mind to give the award to an AE Cue.

In conclusion it is a major honor for me to be allowed to do things like this. That Roy and others trust me to interpret their cues on expensive cases is really a dream come true for me. As you can see in this case I don't exactly march to the same drummer as a lot of my colleagues in this respect. I really try hard to get into the deeper meaning of the subject and for me this cue was not easy to interpret. To me this cue is sort of what art is about, not so literal, the faces of the gods leave it open to interpretation for the viewer. So we created the case to frame Bill's art in the period that the artist says inspired him and leave it at that.
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Good reply. I see your point of view, the pictures represent the artists views of the image engraved. Enjoy doing what you love, its rare!
 
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