King 2x4 custom prolight

[King]

Just curious if your question is going to have an answer Marcus

Benfica, thank you for the follow up, I sent marcus a pm responding to the
question.
Think I posted in another thread that interiors do run the length of the case.

Al.

 

[King]

wrldpro, pm sent

 

[King]

hello king.as a collector,professional player and a close friend to jack justis i am concerned about a few issues.first off the cases you are building look great and as a collector i would consider buying some from you.as a professional player those interiors are very nice for protection of my cues in the case i have from jack justis.next as you have stated jack justis is an inspiration to you and he is one of my friends i personally think that the cases you are building look to much like justis cases and feel that before you make many more you should sit down and think it over that building case designs to look that close to anyone elses cases is very bad.and last of all please dont use the word prolite.that is a word that is jack justis cases for sure.you build a nice looking case however i think you have copied justis cases and you need to change alot real soon or else you will lose respect from everyone in the billiard community and no one will want your cases anymore.

Thank You for expressing your concerns. Jack and I have already sent PM's and he is "OK" with my case designs. The use of"PROLIGHT" as a description of the interiors will not be used by me. I think it is very common to be inspired by the best of any craftsmen in all aspects. How many players look up to the pro's?. What about cue makers and their cue construction and design? The list is endless!! My cases have some ideas from Jack "YES" !!! Are they a copy "NO". If you look you can clearly see many differences of my own. Everyone likes to have an opinion. Thank You for yours and all the best to you.
Al

 

[wrldpro]

thank you for expressing your concerns. Jack and i have already sent pm's and he is "ok" with my case designs. The use of"prolight" as a description of the interiors will not be used by me. I think it is very common to be inspired by the best of any craftsmen in all aspects. How many players look up to the pro's?. What about cue makers and their cue construction and design? The list is endless!! My cases have some ideas from jack "yes" !!! Are they a copy "no". If you look you can clearly see many differences of my own. Everyone likes to have an opinion. Thank you for yours and all the best to you.
Al

inspired and copying are 2 different things king.by looking at the pictures it is obvious.there are only a couple of differeneces but when you have said you inspired and then your cases look to much alike what is someone supposed to think.after talking to jack today we both agreed that neither one of us really cares what and how you make your cases and i wish you the best of luck with them and they do look awesome.hopefully i can catch 1 for sale and have 1 in my collection.

 

[JB Cases]

Inspiration comes from many places. I personally use this case I own as inspiration. This guy "inspired" many of the case makers who have started in the past 20 years. Now some of those case makers are in turn inspiring others. And life marches on.

Al, I think your cases externally are drop dead spectacular and not a copy of anyone else's designs. We'll talk about the interiors later ;-)

 

[tattoosbyjay]

old swift cases,flowers cases, justis cases and many other all look very very similar in construction and appearance, who cares its a good structural design and as long as who ever is making it is making it well i don't see the problem keep up the good work your cases look great king