I have a golden opportunity here....
- Thread starter snipershot
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Since Im close to you..please let me be the first to try out your very first cue.
Well, I imagine I will try it out first, lol. I still gotta make it over to your place and check out your cues. You got dibbs on the early tryout though, hehehe.
Joe
Good Luck!:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
It'll e a lot of fun!
It'll e a lot of fun!
I had an apprentice that remembered everything I told and showed him. After a few hours I said you may want to take some notes for later. So he made notes while I was showing him what to do.
A couple of weeks pass and I notice , he never asked again how to be shown something,I only need to show him once.
I was sure he had been checking the notes regularly ,So I asked him how he did it where were the notes.
The notes were in top of a shelf gathering dust.My son piped up and said Dad , he has photo memory and an IQ of 154.
He was the best apprentice I ever had the privilege to teach.
i had a similar experience to you with Alex Brick.it was like you said a golden experience.
i bugged him about giving me a job for years before one he said,"come on in to work tomorrow."
i worked for free for him for several months and then he turned me loose to make my own cues and i still work in his shop and pay him a fee per cue for using the shop.first week or two i was doing tips and ferrules and a week or two later i was building a-joints and blowing out a Kingwood forearm with too much pressure.
anyway it is pretty easy to learn,but getting them perfect is a different story.it took me two years and secrets from other cue makers before i was totally happy with my finish.
after 2-3 years of doing it now the glamor has worn off and it is sort of like a job now,but still it is the best job i have ever had.
i bugged him about giving me a job for years before one he said,"come on in to work tomorrow."
i worked for free for him for several months and then he turned me loose to make my own cues and i still work in his shop and pay him a fee per cue for using the shop.first week or two i was doing tips and ferrules and a week or two later i was building a-joints and blowing out a Kingwood forearm with too much pressure.
anyway it is pretty easy to learn,but getting them perfect is a different story.it took me two years and secrets from other cue makers before i was totally happy with my finish.
after 2-3 years of doing it now the glamor has worn off and it is sort of like a job now,but still it is the best job i have ever had.
A little story:
A child with 11 years old asked his father "Can I do a cue?"
Answer: No son, you first have to know how to do a ferrule, butt cap and joints and collars
With 13 years old, the same boy asked his father "Can I make a cue now?
Answer: No son, you have to learn how to install a irish line and tip.
With 15 years old, the same boy asked again, Can I make a cue now?
Answer: Noooo son, you have to learn how refinish old cue
Whit 18 years old, the same boy, the same question
Answer: No, no , no son, you have to learn how select the best materials, the best glues, the best wood....
Whit 19 years old, the same boy, the same question
Answer: yes, son you can do a cue but you should forget everything and be original, only this way you get to be a real cuemaker.
Message history: cuemakers are learning a lifetime
A child with 11 years old asked his father "Can I do a cue?"
Answer: No son, you first have to know how to do a ferrule, butt cap and joints and collars
With 13 years old, the same boy asked his father "Can I make a cue now?
Answer: No son, you have to learn how to install a irish line and tip.
With 15 years old, the same boy asked again, Can I make a cue now?
Answer: Noooo son, you have to learn how refinish old cue
Whit 18 years old, the same boy, the same question
Answer: No, no , no son, you have to learn how select the best materials, the best glues, the best wood....
Whit 19 years old, the same boy, the same question
Answer: yes, son you can do a cue but you should forget everything and be original, only this way you get to be a real cuemaker.
Message history: cuemakers are learning a lifetime
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