i believe i upset a flipper

[desi2960]

easy answer

I one time put 9 racks of 9 ball together, I made 7 on the break playing 9 ball and have been playing for 65 years.

I play because I like the game, and have been a building cues for around 20 years. I have made an excess of 400 cues.

Would you answer this question, what qualifies you to ask that question?

 

[classiccues]

I one time put 9 racks of 9 ball together, I made 7 on the break playing 9 ball and have been playing for 65 years.

I play because I like the game, and have been a building cues for around 20 years. I have made an excess of 400 cues.

Would you answer this question, what qualifies you to ask that question?

For a cuemaker that has been making cues for 20 years and comes on AZ nameless, I think I can tell quite a bit from your answer.

What qualifies me to ask the question is that fact that there were statements made and I am asking for clarification, as any normal person would.

If I made a similar statement I would expect the same question back at me.

JV

 

[desi2960]

namless ?

I have never claimed to be the god almighty. I simply stated I did not want a flipper to screw up my cue.

would any of you that makes a product want anyone to screw it up then resell it using your name?

 

[avscue]

I want to ask a serious question... I am not trying to be combative, I am just curious. I have read that I build cues the way "I" want them to play, or the way "I" think they should hit, etc.. etc.. etc...

Can I ask you what in your pool game backs that statement up?

I ask that because I know guys that make cues that can run 100 balls, might string a 2 or 3 pack of 9 ball on you. Searing, Mottey, S. Weston, Tascarella to name a few....

But I am curious to how you qualify those statements. Don't bring any other cuemakers name into it, like this guy doesn't play, or that guy doesn't play... I want to hear YOUR answer.

JV (---doesn't gamble so don't say lets play some... :wink:

Well thats a valid question. I know for me, i will cut a shaft the way a customer wants but if it seems to "radical" (for the lack of any better wording), i like to go over why or how i suspect it might play. If its one of my hickory shafts, i will definitely do so because it changes significantly , i have done alot of experiments. If however its a design change to the butt section and i am not comfortable with it, i will pass.

 

[qbilder]

Once the cue is sold, it's sold. You cannot control what happens with the cue after you accept money for it and send to the new owner. The most you can do is refuse to sell to that individual again, if it really bothers you that much. I'm as frustrated as any builder when I see one of my butchered cues being circulated through the ranks of players, but what can I do besides buy it back? As soon as I do, there will be another. There will always be cues I made that get altered by someone else to the point where it no longer hits/feels like when it left my shop. Everybody that hits with it relates that hit with my name. Facts of life. All I can do is hope that those people have played with enough of my cues to know when one isn't right, but in reality that's not always the case. You either accept it as an unpleasant but unavoidable part of the job, or else you find a different job. You can't change it, sadly.