opinions on this cues please

worxcustomcues said:
hi,
thank you for your comment, we are trying different designs and we will see what most players want. we also want simple designs.. and hoping by next year we will have different designs on our cues, we will use imported wood like bocote, purple heart, pink ivory that kind of wood.. and i have a question, if anyone here can help us, where can we buy joint pins? like 5/8x10 that kind of pins.. your reply is greatly appreciated.

thanks
worx
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5/8-10 joint pins??? Those are gonna be pretty big pins I must say... do you mean 3/8-10? 5/8-10s are commonly used as lead screws in small CNC machinery... you could get 3/8 at prathers or atlas... I make my own pins in SS, brass and aluminum
 
worxcustomcues said:
hi,
thank you for your comment, we are trying different designs and we will see what most players want. we also want simple designs.. and hoping by next year we will have different designs on our cues, we will use imported wood like bocote, purple heart, pink ivory that kind of wood.. and i have a question, if anyone here can help us, where can we buy joint pins? like 5/8x10 that kind of pins.. your reply is greatly appreciated.

thanks
worx
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Here's a supplier of all kinds of parts:

http://www.cuestik.com/

Here's another:

http://www.prathercue.com/page%20cue%20parts/cue%20parts.html

and another:

www.cuecomponents.com

The 3/8 X 10 is a popular, classic joint and it is fine, but the newer joint, the Uniloc Radial pin, is quite popular and is more advanced. Both are for flat joints.

Chris
 
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undertaker said:
hello, this are two phillipine made cues. the makers name is worx. this cues are not flawless but build much better than most of the ph. cues that i know. please tell me what you think, know about the maker...
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I believe these cues were done on a pantograph. The dagger inlays in the butt and forearm are a copy of the same design that Mike Bender has used for years. It's almost his trade mark.
 
hi, we do not use those machine and to be honest i dont know what that is. all our cues are hand made, if you do not believe its up to you..
 
classiccues said:
Don't worry.. if they find there way into a certain dealers hands they will be the best thing since sliced bread, they will all hit a ton and better yet.. they will all cost 8-30k.

JV
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What will his customers think when they resell:(
 
wincue said:
I believe these cues were done on a pantograph. The dagger inlays in the butt and forearm are a copy of the same design that Mike Bender has used for years. It's almost his trade mark.
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How right you are! Mike has been doing those Dagger inlays for the last 10 or 12 years. So many people try and copy that design, but never looks quite right. Mike is the master.
 
The best Phillipine Cuemaker is Viattorre, I used two Cue from them and this Work is awesome and hits great.All does per Hand,him build for me now a very high end Cue and I have a Lock In -so I can see the Cue is building step by step.
All Azer's can see when my Cue is here.It is really a knock out(belive me).
Thx,Ralf
 
hi, i know we have a personal choices about cue, which one is better than the other, i didn't say we are the best of something like that. i know viattorre and they make good cues. most of the cue maker here in the phils are good and trying to make a few bucks to the US market. but there is saying goes we all start small right? all cue maker tries to make a signature cue. we are just a small company trying to make a few bucks in the US.

thanks!!
 
Big-Tattoo said:
The best Phillipine Cuemaker is Viattorre, I used two Cue from them and this Work is awesome and hits great.All does per Hand,him build for me now a very high end Cue and I have a Lock In -so I can see the Cue is building step by step.
All Azer's can see when my Cue is here.It is really a knock out(belive me).
Thx,Ralf
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I disagree, I think the best Phillipine cuemaker is Edwin Reyes!
 
worxcustomcues said:
hi, what designs do the typical players want with there cue? and we are planning to open a store in the USA and in if given the opportunity we are going to make our cues in the USA. So we can reach to your standards.

thanks
worx
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less inlays for one. it requires a lot of time and skill to do all those inlays and i am sure you are proud of that fact but in the end the ordinary buyer does not even think about all that effort the cumaker put in the cue. all the buyer cares about is how the cue plays, and primarily how it looks and to be honest the cue looks too busy its gawdy. i suggest more classic looks. Oh and instead of "Worx" on the buttcap how bout sign it instead or a logo perhaps.
 
i have respect to all the cue makers, especially filipino cue makers, like audrick, viattorre, edwin reyes many more. we have having a hard time breaking thru US market. but slowly we are trying. thank you for your comment, we try to make simple design cues but it seems they do not like them. we are trying a wide variety of designs and still looking what sells the most. we are trying to get many comments and suggestion so we can improve our designs and playability of our cue. would you prefer a signature instead of a logo? or it doesn't matter.

thanks
 
Worx, seems to me you are spending too much time in trying to make your cues look pretty before you earn the reputation for their construction quality OUTSIDE of the Philippines.
 
I have seen several cues from the phillipines. Several different makers and all warped to some degree. What procedures do you do to your cues to ensure they will not warp? I would be far more interested in this than how many inlays are in one.
 
This is just My curiousity here, but If no pantograph or cnc was used, why go to all the trouble to round the corners of the inlays? It seems like It would be easier to cut them in sharper if done By hand, and would also bring a better price in My opinion.

Before alot of the phillipine cues showed up on the market in the US, there were a few that had already been imported to the US, and were for sale at auction. This was before I started seeing them selling direct from the phillipines. They were much different then the majority of them that I see on there now. I was so impressed for the price, that I actually bought 2 of them back then from a dealer here in the US for over $100 a piece. They were'nt perfect, but nice, and definatly hand inlayed , they were beautifull with very sharp inlays made from exotic woods, and what looked to be ivory. They were'nt marked with any signs of the maker, so have no idea who made them. One of them sort of resembled the Bings I use to see on ebay.
A guy that plays in the leagues here bought one this past year for under 50 bucks on ebay, and It was shipped direct. The cue was probably well worth the money he spent, but not quite the same quality as the 2 I had years ago. He had me rework the shaft and install a good ferrule & tip on It for Him almost as soon as he got It, because the ferrule had split fairly quickly, but He shoots very well with It, so he was happy with it for the money he had into It.
 
Cue Crazy said:
This is just My curiousity here, but If no pantograph or cnc was used, why go to all the trouble to round the corners of the inlays? It seems like It would be easier to cut them in sharper if done By hand, and would also bring a better price in My opinion.
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what he said:
worxcustomcues said:
hi, we do not use those machine and to be honest i dont know what that is. all our cues are hand made, if you do not believe its up to you..
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poor joe

classiccues said:
Don't worry.. if they find there way into a certain dealers hands they will be the best thing since sliced bread, they will all hit a ton and better yet.. they will all cost 8-30k.

JV
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They might end up into a certain dealers hands and become bushkas with letters of auth from certain a dealer, they will have orig shafts ,better yet.. they will cost 8-30k.
 
Very Pretty Cues-- Turned to Junk in less than a month

A freind in Vancouver Wa bought 2 cues from the P.I. and both warped in the handle area , and one warped 2 inches back from the joint. Junk but very pretty. I better not say the name now, I'll look it up and post it later. All the guy that made it is willing to say is he rolled it on a mirror with felt lots of times. I told him I didn't care how many times he rolled it, it's still JUNK. :confused: :confused: :confused:
 
Pardo is the name of the cues that turn to JUNK and Seve Urate is the person that said he rolled them many times. Jim:mad: :mad: :mad:
 
thank you again for your comments, we choose only the best wood for our shaft and chemically treat our shaft so it wont warp, before when we do not treat our shaft we have complaints, now we have not yet recieved any compaints about our shafts. we are doing our best to improve our cues, we are making extravagant designs so that we can attract buyers or dealers, i know that playability comes first but will you buy a simple cue thtat you barely know? we hope that we will be recognize in the states and wil be given the respect as a good and honest cue seller.

thanks
 
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