I was born on January 12, 1957 and spent the first 18 years of my life in Western Pennsylvania, where watching the Pirates play at Forbes Field with Roberto Clemente in right field was a great event for me. During my high school years when I picked up a cue, going to Pittsburgh to see the Steelers working towards those 4 superbowl rings gave my peers and I many opportunities to prove that only "real men" drank that crappy Iron City Beer.
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I decided that the cue I would have made for me to represent surviving 50 years on this planet would have to be done by a cuemaker in the area that shaped my development.
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I wanted a fancy cue, yet I did not want some drill and fill special overpowering the natural beauty of the woods selected
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I now live in Portland, Oregon where I obtained this old Centennial case that once belonged to Portland road player Bill Cress who was amazed when he saw this cue how well the wrap matched his old case
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What is even more amazing to me is that Paul and Bill are friends from years ago in the Pittsburgh area, and that Paul had absolutely no idea I owned this case
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Thank you Paul for creating what hopefully someday a young man will walk into a pool hall and when asked will say "this was my grampa's cue"
-Danny Hepler
That is a great Christmas/Birthday Present, I hope all is well, and when you get sometime, I would like to hit ball or two with your newest member to the family!!!!