Iam glad this came up, i have been waiting to INFORM people of there misconception on this subject!!!
you could still get spliced points up till recently and pantagraph points were done in the 80,s this cue per evan was a late 80s cue. but just because it has spliced points does NOT make it runde
and because it has pantagraph points does NOT make it new
Bob still makes pantagraph points and did back then
evan the same!!!
This is the biggest MISCONCEPTION IN PRODUCTION CUES ON THE PLANET!
what really bothers is that one man said this and it continues as fact, i see this in the forum lives all the time . the facts are out here and now. check with bob or evan if there is doubt! thank you and feel free to call i will express the storys i have heard from both of them that i compiled this factual info from. I can only go with what the makers have told me personally. bob personally told me this info back at derby city aboud 6 years ago and evan confirmed it just before i listed the cue!
thank you and God speed Bill
i do know one thing... if you mention a schon to evan clark as being a "Runde Schon" , Evan goes absolutley nuts... he hates it when ppl refer to them like that.. i made that mistake once asking him a question about a schon i had years ago..
chris
I know he hates it. But then there is that whole mythical story about Bob Runde wanting to keep the production to under 1000 cues a year and Terry Romine wanting to increase it dramatically which supposedly led to Bob's departure. That's the legend anyway. Maybe someone here can tell that story and separate fact from fiction.
All I know is that I have owned two Schon cues from the time Bob was running things and both of htem felt like PURE gold to me. I have owned Schons from well after Bob left and they never felt as good to me. And this was LONG before I ever knew who Bob Runde or Evan Clark or Terry Romine were. Still though Schons from the beginning through now are SOLID cues that play fantastic.
In general I don't like it when people define cues by "eras". I especially don't like it when people refer to SWs as Franklin-Era and say that they are better. I have hit with both and I can't tell a difference. Bot other people have other opinions. And of course in shops for many other things in life the products of that shop have a certain character given them by the people who work there at any given time.
So I understand using era referencing to define the character of a product and I also understand that it invites discussion and debate.
All I know is I got cheated by E-bay as I had a 650.00 max bid on the cue. I have never had this happen before but just talked to a friend (cue buyer/collecter) who says it happen to him also 2 years ago.