I agree. If he let it leave the shop with his name then there is no reason to keep it a secret.
Opinion on new custom cues
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I agree. If he let it leave the shop with his name then there is no reason to keep it a secret.
Redeem the situation? You'll be lucky to get your money back and fortunate to get rid of this junk back to the builder. Here's the "situation"... the cuemaker thought you were too stupid to know that this is extremely substandard work, even for a rank beginning cuemaker. He thought you were so stupid, you would just keep the cue without a complaint. He is obviously willing to associate his name with this level of work and charge a builder's fee that is at the level, or higher, of many top craftsmen and artists, so why don't you give him a hand with his craft and let us all know who this is, and that will "redeem the situation" and make it all as it should be, that is saving others on AZB from getting screwed like you did. Geesh, the gall of some "cuemakers" just astounds me.
Good luck with the cue maker redeeming the situation. I think you have confirmation this is a "botched job". You could protect others by outing this crook.
Glen
The inlays look TERRIBLE.....get your money back!
What do you guys think about the quality of workmanship on these 2 new custom cues, I just got these the day before Thanksgiving after a 10 week wait.
This is my first entry into the custom market and I expected a lot better then this! Am I just being pickey? Now these inlays are small, at arms lenght it looks OK but should I except this from a $1100 cue?
Also the spliced points look hacked up a bit to me.
I would like to withold the name of the maker untill I talk to him about it.
Just looking at the inlays makes me want to cry. That is totally unacceptable. You can maybe understand one or two tiny flaws that are only slightly noticeable, especially if the maker is fairly new. But, to know that a cuemaker is putting out that kind of work at such a price is very, very sad. I hope you manage to get your money back and the cuemaker makes this right.
Good luck!
Good luck!
How do the cues play?Do they play as expected?
I think you should contact the maker and see what can be done to rectify the situation.
The work looks rushed to me.
The inlays could be done bigger with a different pattern, but may not be what you had originally in mind.
I think you should contact the maker and see what can be done to rectify the situation.
The work looks rushed to me.
The inlays could be done bigger with a different pattern, but may not be what you had originally in mind.
The inlays are ridiculously BAD! It would have taken me all of two seconds after unwrapping these to be on the phone with the maker. There is so much great work being done out there for something like this to be leaving a shop. Simply no excuse in my book.
Lisa
Lisa
> I have to agree with the consensus here,you should demand and receive nothing less than a full refund,and I'd still out him.
That is a situation where a phone response wouldn't be strong enough.
Believe me,I'd be on his front steps in the morning,and he'd either make it right or he'd be WEARING that cue.
As someone that very badly wants to make cues,I'm offended that someone with more equipment,materials,and money than I have would waste all of the above and let something like that out of their shop.
I've never even done an inlay,and would happily bet all I have that my first wouldn't look like that,I have too much pride. Tommy D.
That is a situation where a phone response wouldn't be strong enough.
Believe me,I'd be on his front steps in the morning,and he'd either make it right or he'd be WEARING that cue.
As someone that very badly wants to make cues,I'm offended that someone with more equipment,materials,and money than I have would waste all of the above and let something like that out of their shop.
I've never even done an inlay,and would happily bet all I have that my first wouldn't look like that,I have too much pride. Tommy D.
I don't think there is nothing to redeem or remedy here. He took your money... sent something substandard. If he thinks this is up to par... he shouldn't be in cue making.
I am against not naming the cuemaker in this circumstance.
I wouldn't want cues like this for any price. I take pride in my cues and i'd be embarrassed to show someone a cue that belonged to me with this kind of workmanship. I hope that the cue maker who made these is a new cue maker who's still trying to learn because if he's well known and you let his name out on the forum his name will be "MUD". Work like this for the money you paid is just awful.
James
James
Only a ten-week wait? That doesn't seem long to me at all....
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Yea no kidding. My gilbert I put a deposit on yesterday has a 10 month wait to a year.
Just long enough to cobble together those two excuses for custom cues. At least the hack didn't string him along for almost two years before he screwed him.
I said it in Tickkler's thread about shoddy work, if the cue maker sends it out of his shop, it is in the public domain, and we should all be able to give him the credit he is due.
I agree!
Does the cue have a signature? a logo? Then that means that the maker is perfectly okay with being assosiated with this cue! He literrally put his stamp of approval on it! Even if it is unmarked, he knows that the owner will tell people who made it. The fact that he sent it to you, means that he feels that this cue is up to his standards, wherever those may be. HE is the one who made the decision to let this represent his standard, NOT YOU!
just my .02
Jw