new GOLD RUSH CUES

[GoldRush cues]

hello and welcome to GOLD RUSH CUES. as alot of you remember i closed my pool hall back in may. everything i sold, i invested into my cue equipment. for the last four years ive made about 12 cues a year with my partner Alan sutton, we called them A.K.C. CUES.(alan and kevin custom cues). the name just wasnt working for both of us. so we went with gold rush. we are both born and raised in northern california.
a couple of these cues are already sold and i dont feel this is the right place to try and sell these cues, so i will repost these cues, individually, in the for sale forum with prices and details.
please let us know what you all think. thanks for looking
Kevin McClain & Alan Sutton
GOLD RUSH CUES

from left to right
#1 break cue with polished aluminum butt cap
#2 wrapless tulip with curly maple handle and silver dash rings
#3 wrapless mun ebony with curly maple handle and silver dash rings
#4 mun ebony with birdseye floating points and silver dash rings
#5 tulip with ebony floating points recut with amboyna burl and silver rings
#6 cocbola with ebony floating points and silver rings
#7 jet black gaboon ebony with floating snakewood points and silver rings
#8 gaboon ebony with tulip points and reconed ivory and tulip diamond inlays and silver rings
#3

 

[Big C]

Very nice looking cues.

I like the two with the curly maple handles. I would like to know more about your building processes. How long have you been making cues?

 

[GoldRush cues]

well a quick history on me, i was in high school in the late eighties early nineties and we had an adult R.O.P. program in my wood shop. there was a man there learning how to build cues and i was hooked!! he is a well known cue builder which i will leave nameless . i mess around for a few years after high school doing repairs at our local pool hall and really didnt build my first cue until about 1997. i sold it to a guy who still carries it in his bag for something like $80 bucks.i bought a pool hall in 2003 which afforded me the time to really start building . its been 10 years of buying wood, making saw dust (and plenty of fire wood LOL), picking a lot of machinist, cue repair guys, and builders, and sawers brains to finally put a cue out there that i can stand behind 100%. my family owned a body/paint shop for years where i learned how to paint. i still use my cousins spray booth to paint all of my cues.
now for the comstruction of my cues. i will only attach the "A" JOINT with metal if the wood in the cue is too light. none of the cues in this picture have metal in the "A" joint. i do have a titlest converstion which will be done next month that does have a ss stud to help with the weight and balance. all of my cues are balanced about 2-3" above the wrap.all of our construction is done on a 13x40 machinist lathe and am currently in a machinist class at yuba college to increase my knowledge. glue tolerances are exact . we have a cnc taper machine so now our cues have repeatability.
so my short story kinda got long, but i hope you understand ive been doing this for a long time and my parter alan got about 8 years behind him. weve learned so much but feel like we have just chipped away the first layer and have soo much more to learn.
if you have any more questions please feel free to ask.it means alot to both of us when people are starting to take an interest in our passion!!
thanks , gold rush cues

 

[BlowFish]

As I am partial to Tulipwood, I would say that those Tulipwood cues look really nice. How about some pricing and full specs of those cues? Here or via PM will do. Thanx

 

[GoldRush cues]

i have been listing these cues in the for sale section with full specs. and pics.both tulip.
thanks, kevin mcclain