Ok just wanted to do a run down of the cue that Jimmy Lee is building for me ... First I did a run down of cue makers that I wanted to use and had alot of intrest in. I did'nt want to wait a year or two and did't really want to tye up thousands in one cue and I would rather split those thousands up and have several nice cues. Not to mention several of the top cue makers don't do customs that a customer designs you get what they make for you. I came up with a final four Jimmy Lee , Doug Patrick , Joe Baker and Jeff Eason ... I also have Brent Hartman making a J/B cue for me ... This is the Jimmy Lee custom he is building for me he keeps me updated all the time so this should be easy for me to do ....
First thing I did was shoot Jimmy a pm telling him I was very interested in him building me a cue . Late that night he replied saying he would love too. Jimmy works all day and works on cues at night so most of his replies come at night. He told me to call him and I did we talked for a couple hours about pool , some cue makers he knows never nothing bad always positive , about our family's and he had me rolling on the ground about a prospective customer who thought he was Chinese because of his name Jimmy Lee ala Bruce Lee ... We talked about the cue I wanted and did a build sheet on it for him for future refrence ... We discussed price which is very reasonable with Jimmy, A time frame for completion of the cue etc ...etc ... Jimmy is very easy to talk to and has some of the best customer service I have seen him and Jeff Eason are awesome in that respect.
The Cue in my mind is going to be a looker it is designed by me and Jimmy has given me some good ideas along the way. The most important one so far is I was going to go with Birdseye in the forearm and Jimmy sent me some pics of other woods to use in them one was quilted maple which I opted to change the birdseye to quilted maple ...
The Cue itself will have a Gaboon ebony butt sleeve with Gaboon ebony points going up into a quilted maple forearm. With 4 veneers, White against the ebony ... Then Turqious , Blue then Black ... It will have ring work at points A,B,C,D, and E ... It will have cross like inlays (Ivorine) with dots surrounding them in the butt sleeve and points ... A black embossed leather lizzard wrap ...Ivorine Butt cap.... It will have two shafts built to the specs I requested 13 mm and 12.50 mm with matching ring work of course. The cue will wiegh 19.5 oz's I think the cue will look awesome and I am really looking forward to it ... Below are some pics of the birdseye Jimmy sent me ...We later decided on Quilted Maple ....
First thing I did was shoot Jimmy a pm telling him I was very interested in him building me a cue . Late that night he replied saying he would love too. Jimmy works all day and works on cues at night so most of his replies come at night. He told me to call him and I did we talked for a couple hours about pool , some cue makers he knows never nothing bad always positive , about our family's and he had me rolling on the ground about a prospective customer who thought he was Chinese because of his name Jimmy Lee ala Bruce Lee ... We talked about the cue I wanted and did a build sheet on it for him for future refrence ... We discussed price which is very reasonable with Jimmy, A time frame for completion of the cue etc ...etc ... Jimmy is very easy to talk to and has some of the best customer service I have seen him and Jeff Eason are awesome in that respect.
The Cue in my mind is going to be a looker it is designed by me and Jimmy has given me some good ideas along the way. The most important one so far is I was going to go with Birdseye in the forearm and Jimmy sent me some pics of other woods to use in them one was quilted maple which I opted to change the birdseye to quilted maple ...
The Cue itself will have a Gaboon ebony butt sleeve with Gaboon ebony points going up into a quilted maple forearm. With 4 veneers, White against the ebony ... Then Turqious , Blue then Black ... It will have ring work at points A,B,C,D, and E ... It will have cross like inlays (Ivorine) with dots surrounding them in the butt sleeve and points ... A black embossed leather lizzard wrap ...Ivorine Butt cap.... It will have two shafts built to the specs I requested 13 mm and 12.50 mm with matching ring work of course. The cue will wiegh 19.5 oz's I think the cue will look awesome and I am really looking forward to it ... Below are some pics of the birdseye Jimmy sent me ...We later decided on Quilted Maple ....
... I was concerned about putting two blueish veneers together in the turqious and the blue then I wanted the fourth veneer (Outside) to be black to tie the veneers back into the Gaboon Ebony .... Here is a pic I saw yesterday of my points and veneers in the quilted maple and how my cue is coming along... 
