Introducing a custom "Wheat" stock cue line !!!

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Introducing a NEW custom "Wheat" stock cue line !!!

I have mentioned this idea briefly on a pre-existing thread several months ago, however after giving this some serious thought and the overwhelming phone calls and PM's I have received from fellow AZr's and alot of the locals who really like my configuration of a good hitting cue, so I have decided to do the following :

I will have 2 lines of cues...

The first line also my current one with signature, will now show my logo of an engraved with 14k "gold-leaf" straw of wheat, this will indicate that the cue is completely custom-fitted to the customers specs 100% and made to order, numbered and dated chronologically...

The second line will feature an engraved "silver" straw of wheat which will indicate this cue is NOT custom fitted and is average balanced for the NOW avg. player's armspand and most of these cues will be 60" in length with my style hit and playability... and a dedicated numbering system as well....

This is obviously warranted, especially for the ongoing inquisitions of how do my cues hit, and I have to respond with "the exact way you want them to !"

So this pre-existing idea and what kind of hit and playability I like is now going to be incorporated in the world of "WheatCues" in the very near future...

Once again, I still don't intend on competing in the resale market and would not care to have my work sought after on that level.... remember, I build "tools" for players... not "art" for collectors and/or flippers !

These cues will still be the same base price with obvious price adjustments assessed accordingly !

Also I think this would be sufficient for the less critical players who just want a nice custom cue without having to wait for it to be built !!!

I would love to hear opinions and suggestions regarding my idea and improvements or changes would be greatly appreciated !

As expected there will probably be the few select "clowns" that will manipulate everything I stated and try to make me look bad or incompetent, but all I have to say about that is view the thread "REQUESTED PICS OF WHEATCUES" if you have any doubts and that should give you a real good understanding of what kind of quality and praises you can expect from my custom fitted cues starting at 350.00...


Sincerely, Eddie Wheat
 
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Hey Eddie,

I am in San Diego this week, but as soon as I get back to the home front I am going to confirm my order of that Hoppe style cue.

Josh
 
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Mr. Wheat
I think it would be nice if you paid for a membership on this site.
Also I think it would be nice if you started paying the web site for
all of your free ads you keep posting in the main forum.

Thanks and have a nice day
mrs.g
anyone else feel the same way?
 
Good idea and I like the idea of the gold and silver Wheat, neat idea.

But before moving further I'd hope you have your orders filled already instead of having guys hijack your threads looking for their cues. I'm not trying to flame I'm being serious.

I think you make good cues and I hear good things from the customers that are on the board. I'm with the others and would like to see your work, it would only HELP you sell more IMHO. I help run Jim's myspace page and we put about every pic he takes up. We dont tell who they belong to, we just post the wood combos, etc. just so customers know what certain woods look like and how certain combos would look like.

BTW-I'd like to see both logos when you do a gold and silver one.
 
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Talk is for show work is for dough. Lets see some of the straw cues, lets see some cues in the cue gallery, lets see some cue reviews. I would like to hear something other than one of your customers has been waiting 7 mos. for 2 shafts because you bought wet wood. If you are serious about cuemaking how about some product enough of the ongoing saga.
Pinocchio
!!!!!!!!!!!!!This is for you Eddie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Gunn_Slinger said:
Mr. Wheat
I think it would be nice if you paid for a membership on this site.
Also I think it would be nice if you started paying the web site for
all of your free ads you keep posting in the main forum.

Thanks and have a nice day
mrs.g
anyone else feel the same way?
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honestly? Not really. In my opinion the "club membership" is a choice. This is a free forum for all and until that changes, I don't think it is any of our business to tell people that they should buy a membership or pay for advertising. That is the job of the moderator's if they so choose to institute such a rule.

What you, or anyone else that feels that people that are active sellers on this site should buy a membership, can do is decide not to buy from people that are not club members. Perhaps even PM these sellers with a message that says that you are interested in their product, but you have a strict policy of not buying from AZ members that do not purchase a membership.

Short of that, I really wish that we could have this discussion without hijacking someone thread that has an idea that they are getting a feeler for interest.

But I'm still pretty much a newbie on this site, so what I think doesn't matter that much.

By the way Eddie, I like the idea. If you need someone to make the die for the wheat logo's let me know. I may know someone that will do it here. I would probably want the first production off the line in exchange though(plus his price of course)!!!:thumbup:

Edit: To make it legible. lol
 
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DukeOfAim said:
honestly? Not really. In my opinion the "club membership" is a choice. This is a free forum for all and until that changes, I don't think it is any of our business to tell people that they should buy a membership or pay for advertising. That is the job of the moderator's if they so choose to institute such a rule.

What you, or anyone else that feels that people that are active sellers on this site should buy a membership, can do is decide not to buy from people that are not club members. Perhaps even PM these sellers with a message that says that you are interested in their product, but you have a strict policy of not buying from AZ members that do not purchase a membership.

Short of that, I really wish that we could have this discussion without hijacking someone thread that has an idea that they are getting a feeler for interest.

But I'm still pretty much a newbie on this site, so what I think doesn't matter that much.

By the way Eddie, I like the idea. If you need someone to make the die for the wheat logo's let me know. I may know someone that will do it here. I would probably want the first production off the line in exchange though(plus his price of course)!!!:thumbup:

Edit: To make it legible. lol
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Sorry I thought I made myself clear. HIS post is yet another ad for his cues, ad's do not belong in the main forum.
Anything else?

thanks mrs.g
 
Gunn_Slinger said:
Mr. Wheat
I think it would be nice if you paid for a membership on this site.
Also I think it would be nice if you started paying the web site for
all of your free ads you keep posting in the main forum.

Thanks and have a nice day
mrs.g
anyone else feel the same way?
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I agree................:thumbup:
 
WheatCues said:
I will have 2 lines of cues...

The second line will feature an engraved "silver" straw of wheat which will indicate this cue is NOT custom fitted and is average balanced for the NOW avg. player's armspand and most of these cues will be 60" in length with my style hit and playability... and a dedicated numbering system as well....

This is obviously warranted, especially for the ongoing inquisitions of how do my cues hit, and I have to respond with "the exact way you want them to !"

So this pre-existing idea and what kind of hit and playability I like is now going to be incorporated in the world of "WheatCues" in the very near future...
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Ok, now I get it. You're going to mass market a cue made by you called Silver Straw or Silver Wheat or something like that, and have us believe it's a custom cue?

Will you offer any special combinations of woods in the butt and forearms or will they be a stock item, look alikes but numbered. If they will all be the same but with numbers, how many of each cue will you make?

Sounds like you're going to be cranking out the cues, without any customizing and selling them as custom cues. My question: isn't that by definition a production cue?

Flex
 
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Eddie,

Obviously true custom fit to each player is going to go out the window if you market nationally and internationally. However this thread hot on the heels of you protesting that letting ten people test one of your cues would guarantee that at least nine out of ten wouldn't like it leaves me scratching my head. Your message isn't consistent to say the least!

Why don't you build one of these generic cues and send it out for testing. Please note that nobody has suggested you send a bunch of cues out for free testing. One cue making the round is plenty. You are talking about making spec cues now so sending one on the road might be a very wise investment. That has worked far better for another cuemaker than just making a bunch of posts that while they may get you attention, it ain't all of the nice kind!

Do note that I am not interested in testing myself so I am not fishing here. Conflict of interest because I dabble with cues myself and as a machinist and former precision gunsmith my expectations are probably less than reasonable.

Hu
 
Flex said:
Ok, now I get it. You're going to mass market a cue made by you called Silver Straw or Silver Wheat or something like that, and have us believe it's a custom cue?

Will you offer any special combinations of woods in the butt and forearms or will they be a stock item, look alikes but numbered. If they will all be the same but with numbers, how many of each cue will you make?

Sounds like you're going to be cranking out the cues, without any customizing and selling them as custom cues. My question: isn't that by definition a production cue?

Flex
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SHENANIGANS!!!!!!!! It's not fair to actually read what he types...
 
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ShootingArts said:
Eddie,

Obviously true custom fit to each player is going to go out the window if you market nationally and internationally. However this thread hot on the heels of you protesting that letting ten people test one of your cues would guarantee that at least nine out of ten wouldn't like it leaves me scratching my head. Your message isn't consistent to say the least!

Why don't you build one of these generic cues and send it out for testing. Please note that nobody has suggested you send a bunch of cues out for free testing. One cue making the round is plenty. You are talking about making spec cues now so sending one on the road might be a very wise investment. That has worked far better for another cuemaker than just making a bunch of posts that while they may get you attention, it ain't all of the nice kind!

Do note that I am not interested in testing myself so I am not fishing here. Conflict of interest because I dabble with cues myself and as a machinist and former precision gunsmith my expectations are probably less than reasonable.

Hu
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Don't get your hopes up for the new line yet....he doesn't have shafts for these either...........:grin:
 
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