jerry mcworter
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Hey Jeff,
Nice looking cue...
Nice looking cue...
iconcue said:
They are CNC and they are not hand sharpened, but they are cut with a very tiny cutter (think smaller then a tooth pick, a bit bigger then a pin)and you do have to look close to see just how small. Most of the top guys today use CNC in many capacities, some designs you couldn't splice even if you wanted to. Once again I feel education is key since many people think bad thoughts with CNC and equate it to fat rounded points and inlays. I don't think it's my place to educate, but someone needs to I guess.
Jim
JimBo said:
Jimbo's reply is right on key. To expand, the larger cutters can run faster, therefore more cues per hour. The thin blades break very easily, so most cuemakers who want more production use the larger cutters, and the highend guys use the small cutters at slower speeds. JP
iconcue said:add one more on the left and that will do it?
Love the the work in that q .Very very nice ..
Hay xmas is comin HINT HINT >>>
iconcue said:thank you jim! as always appreciate your educating comments! i assume you are speaking from first hand knowledge of jerry mcworters methods? i'm going to have to give him a call and see if he brings up having a picture of you that he would like to send me
I do have some nice pictures of me in Jerry's shop, maybe I'll get one right out to you. As far as the cue goes, I always like Jerry's designs, I liked this one the first time I saw it at last years DCC, your buddy Bill had the cue. I always see Jerry's mentor TW's influence when I look at his work. Jerry is second to none when it comes to siver work. Many makers DO hand cue points, but in this case the design doesn't really call for it IMO.
Jim
iconcue said:the hair thin strands are some of the silver work jim mentions jerry being so good at! but i can see where you could think it was ivory. guess i need to take a better pic of this one!
someone came up with a good name for the cue "whiskers"
Oh! I can see it now, thanks. Kind of an optical illusion.
Chris
TATE said:
The funny thing is one of the things I liked best about the cue when I first saw it was the bands of leather and looking at the picture (and it's another great one) you can't even notice that's what they are. Talk about optical illusions, very odd.
Jim
iconcue said:all right! all right! i'll try to do better next time!
you'll are turning into a bunch of photography critics
you got to remember the original is about four times the size of these pics displayed and any time you reduce or enlarge a file you are going to lose something.
i could post them as original but you can imagine how long they would take to load - but the silver lines and leather rings would be very appearent. but at this size to bring them out it would require a lot of photoshop time.
and jim if you look close enough you can see some leather dimples. plus when you were examining the cue you probably had it closer to your eyes than as displayed in the pic.
I wasn't being a critic, just pointing out it was hard to tell those were leather.
Jim
Matt_24 said:
I have put together a few cues in different shops and am in the process of building 2 right now, but I would never (ever , ever) call myself a cuemaker and I have no plans to become one. Due to certain circumstances I have been lucky enough to spend lots of time in some shops and have gotten to meet some very awesome cuemakers over the past 15 years. I find talking cues with these guys to be great fun and very enlightening. But I can say that I am better at starting trouble then sharing info here.
Jim
