opinions on cuemaker tactics

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southpawSW

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I recently have had a cuemaker fix a tip that mushroomed. I purchased the tip from him and gave 40 dollars total to have it installed. When it mushroomed it took it to him to fix. Upon fixing the tip he explained that he must sand the ferrule some as well. I expressed that I wasn't in favor of that. He then explains its the only way. The ferrule is ivory by the way. After fixing mushroom tip, I again play with it and only a day or so later it mushrooms again. I take it back to him again. He again fixes the mushroomed tip in the same manner. Upon receiving it I noticed that the ferrule looked pointed. Therefore I put a mic on it and sure enough the tip is 12.2mm and the shaft side of the ferrule is 13mm. When I bring it to the cuemakers attention he says I need a new ferrule and has the nerve to try and sell me a new ivory ferrule my original ivory ferrule was perfect until he worked on it. Just want some opinions on whether I'm out of line for thinking he should replace my ferrule with no charge since he messed it up.
 
I don't understand why he needs to sand the ferrule at all. Maybe for some leftover glue but that can be avoided with some Scotch tape when gluing tip on.. did this guy use a lathe or change tip by hand?
 
That's terrible service. I can cut the mushroom off by hand reburnish the sides of the tip without a lathe. And never touch the ferrule. He owes you a new ferrule in me opinion.
 
That is horrible service and you dont have to sand the ferrule to cut the mushroom. I agree he owes you a ferrule.
 
He did it on a lathe and sanded halfway up the ivory ferrule when he fixed the mushroom. I noticed the pointed ferrule after purchasing and letting him install a new moori soft. This tip has not hit a ball cause I noticed the pointed ferrule. Now gonna have to cut off new tip and ferrule to fix.
 
southpawSW said:
I recently have had a cuemaker fix a tip that mushroomed. I purchased the tip from him and gave 40 dollars total to have it installed. When it mushroomed it took it to him to fix. Upon fixing the tip he explained that he must sand the ferrule some as well. I expressed that I wasn't in favor of that. He then explains its the only way. The ferrule is ivory by the way. After fixing mushroom tip, I again play with it and only a day or so later it mushrooms again. I take it back to him again. He again fixes the mushroomed tip in the same manner. Upon receiving it I noticed that the ferrule looked pointed. Therefore I put a mic on it and sure enough the tip is 12.2mm and the shaft side of the ferrule is 13mm. When I bring it to the cuemakers attention he says I need a new ferrule and has the nerve to try and sell me a new ivory ferrule my original ivory ferrule was perfect until he worked on it. Just want some opinions on whether I'm out of line for thinking he should replace my ferrule with no charge since he messed it up.
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Out him.

And never let him touch your cues again.

Freddie
 
Almost anyone with a little patience and manual dexterity could repair a mushroomed tip by hand without touching the ferrule. He definitely owes you a new one. Get your old one back from him too; it can probably be turned down to cylindrical again and re-used.
 
At least he didn't tell you it'll be another $40 for a tip that don't mushroom!Get rid of him and find someone with half a brain.
 
Back when (for me at the time, anyway) a cue was just a cue...

I was in Las Vegas back in '04 for the BCA tournament. I was shooting with a 13mm. The tip was on it's last legs, and the ferrule had always seemed to have little pits in it. So once our team was knocked out (NEVER change a tip in the middle of a tourney), I gave the shaft to one of the repair shops right outside the Riv ballroom to replace the ferrule & tip.

Picked it up the next day and it looked great, so I paid the guy and I hopped on the plane...

I was all 'pooled' out when I got home. A couple of weeks after getting back, I uncovered the pool table and started shooting with my brand new ferrule and tip... and couldn't make a ball to save my life. :confused:

Meh, ok, maybe I need to warm up... Maybe I'm tired... Maybe I need a little "somethin' somethin'" :thumbup:...

Over the next month, for some reason I couldn't get used to the new tip and ferrule. We started back up in league a couple of months later, and I was still in (what I considered at the time) a slump !!

A teammate looks at my cue, shoots a couple of shots, looks up at me and says, "Geez, you shoot with a thin shaft". I just kind of looked at him for a second, and after a few measurements I realized that the repair guy in Vegas TURNED MY SHAFT DOWN TO 11.5 MM !!!! :eek:

Like I said, back then a cue was just a cue. But I still kick myself in the @ss every now and then for not knowing what I should have been looking for :mad:

He owes you a new ferrule. No charge. That's where I come out...
 
Woah.....

Getting already upset by reading about this "wannabe-cue-repairman"......

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He owes you a new ferrule, but try and get the money. If he can't install a tip, what do you think he'll do with a ferrule? If you can't get the money, send it to RATcues, and chalk it up to a learning experience.

Rodney
 
I'm surprised you would let him touch it in the first place. Guy sounds like a clown to me. Do yourself a favor, have a real cuemaker put on a new ferrule, and don't let that guy even look at your stuff again. Chalk the loss up to lesson learned.


best,

Justin
 
destroying ferrules tips and shafts

ratcues said:
That's probably what this "repair" guy thought. Now there's a hundreds of these morons "repairing" cues and giving the rest of us a bad name.[/QUOTE

Hi Ryan
I forgot one very important option was to send it to you.

You do work and give sound advise.
I am not at your level of experties on cue repairs.
There are alot of un seen problems that come with repairing cues.

MMike
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People are making reference to the culprit as a hack cue-repair guy, and the OP refers to him as a cuemaker.
Either way if he is an AZ member it would be interesting to hear his side of the story.
Same for the guy who turned the shaft down to 11.5 mm at the Riv, even if it was in '04.
Naming names is the only way to go for the well being of poolplayers everywhere, as well as the cuemaker/cue-repair guy community.
At least people won't be going around suspicious of anybody who has ever repaired a pool cue.

For the sake of full disclosure I hope it wasn't us
 
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