Painpools Workmanship

[rackem]

Sore your links can not be read. Don't waste your time. Mike Stacey you say is 25 minutes away. Have you contacted him? Is he even willing to get involved by doing an inspection. Maybe we could get a web cam from the guys at the pool hall. I think you might get a few extra for this weeks tournament.

 

[Sore_Aintya]

I have a large monitor, to read then you will most likely have to expand them. Hover your mouse over the page and a little window will appear on the bottom right hand corner.

 

[PAINPOOL]

Mike

Sore your links can not be read. Don't waste your time. Mike Stacey you say is 25 minutes away. Have you contacted him? Is he even willing to get involved by doing an inspection. Maybe we could get a web cam from the guys at the pool hall. I think you might get a few extra for this weeks tournament.

Well, Mike or what Sore????

 

[Sore_Aintya]

We will see. Ive been in contact with quite a few forum members that want to meet up and some that "may" show up Sunday.
AND, I'm out the door now to pick up a camera.

Be back in a hour or so with pictures of this "perfect" restore job!

 

[BHQ]

wow, 5300+ views on this thread already
we oughta get a pool going to guess the final tally
my guess is 5869

 

[Sore_Aintya]

OK here goes. Keep in mind these photos are taken with a 2 mega pixel camera.. But it is the best I can do until my camera gets back from Kentucky.

Posting links with full size pictures so you can zoom in to see detail on some of these flaws (if possible). Some such as the dark scratches in the butt cap and the cracked inlay wouldn't show up as I figured they wouldn't. Oddly enough, everything looks worse in person other then the wrap job, and these photos make the wrap look horrible!

Mind you, all this is under the clear, else you could feel it.
Scratches around the forearm.
http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/1301/img0768rx9.jpg
Dirt under the clear 1-3 inches above the Ebony point.
http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/9029/img0771du2.jpg
Other side of cue showing scratch lines.
http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/3282/img0774xm7.jpg
Exposed wrap seam.
http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/5357/img0777eq6.jpg
Gap at the top of the wrap.
http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/6042/wrapgapct4.jpg
Dog eared potion of the wrap, cracked inlay (2nd from the left) and the area of the very noticeable scratches.
http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/8422/img0757rh3.jpg
Another angle of the dog ear and a faint shoot of the scratches in the butt cap..or maybe I can see them because I know they are there.
http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/7852/img0761kc0.jpg

 

[TellsItLikeItIs]

OK here goes. Keep in mind these photos are taken with a 2 mega pixel camera.. But it is the best I can do until my camera gets back from Kentucky.

On my screen the gap at the end of the wrap & the open seam show, but the flaws in the finish do not.

 

[Sore_Aintya]

Like I said, 2 mega pixel camera so pictures are a tad drab, I'm sorry.
Here is a nice shot of the forearm scratches though.

Now imagine this on the white butt cap area, although there, they have had dirt or some other dark substance trapped in the grooves then cleared over. Disgusting really.

The ivory inlays look especially bad, the natural grain goes up and down, while these sanding lines(?) go round and round, making a checkerboard mess.

 

[skins]

no disrespect Sore. really

you can't really tell too much of anything from those pics except the forarm pic. they're out of focus and the lighting is poor. at least you tried though. no disrepect, but don't people see what's in the viewfinder before they push the shutter button? i thought they had made cameras (a better phrase escapes me at the moment), idiot proof a long time ago, but i guess i was wrong. i have seen more bad pics taken and posted on this site than anywhere. my thoughts are if the picture is not in focus to the area of interest don't post it. i'm sorry i had to vent....

 

[Sore_Aintya]

lol! You said no disrespect and called me a idiot in the same sentence pretty much.
I have a hard time believe that one can not see the scratches on the above photo!

Like I said, its a borrow, 2 megapixel camera that I had never used before in my life. Too close everything is a blur, to far and you cant make out the mistakes.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

BTW Skins, you never did call...

 

[Panhdlce]

Hate to tell you Sore but you sound like one of my wife's third graders, get a resolvement in private, then get a life, please! enough is enough of this post.

"Tune in tomarro, same bat time, same bat station, for the never ending saga of Sore Anita & Painpool".

 

[skins]

lol! You said no disrespect and called me a idiot in the same sentence pretty much.
I have a hard time believe that one can not see the scratches on the above photo!

Like I said, its a borrow, 2 megapixel camera that I had never used before in my life. Too close everything is a blur, to far and you cant make out the mistakes.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

BTW Skins, you never did call...

come on sore i thought i was very carefull with the way i worded that so even you wouldn't take it the wrong way. i wasn't calling you an idiot. the first part of my post said the first pic was ok. as far as me calling i just got back in the house for a recording session i'll try now.

 

[ribdoner]

It just dawned on me that I'm between a SORE and a PAIN. I'm outa here. If you can't resolve your issues you might meet in N. Judson for a duel at dawn. For a modest fee HOLLYWOOD HOWARDTHEDICK will referee. ENJOY

 

[bogey54311]

??

somethink i dont understand.
i see the pics of the wrap that you took sore.
looks rough.
if i got a cue like that, i'd be mad too.

ONE PROBLEM.

aaron took his own pics of the wrap and finish before he shipped the cue.
i would go after the shipping company who delivered it.
the first pic is of the wrap seam.

something stinks here!

 

[runscott]

somethink i dont understand.
i see the pics of the wrap that you took sore.
looks rough.
if i got a cue like that, i'd be mad too.

ONE PROBLEM.

aaron took his own pics of the wrap and finish before he shipped the cue.
i would go after the shipping company who delivered it.
the first pic is of the wrap seam.

something stinks here!

Bogey - the seam shown in Soreaintya's pics shows the seam going into a small diamond. Your first pic does not show the seam, nor do any of the others. If you have such a pic, then show it. I doubt Aaron would take any pics that would display shoddy workmanship, or that you, as his bud, would post any that did.

Edited to add: Wayyyy too much drama here. You guys have fun.

 

[rocitop]

somethink i dont understand.
i see the pics of the wrap that you took sore.
looks rough.
if i got a cue like that, i'd be mad too.

ONE PROBLEM.

aaron took his own pics of the wrap and finish before he shipped the cue.
i would go after the shipping company who delivered it.
the first pic is of the wrap seam.

something stinks here!

This is the best post yet on this subject.

I absolutely agree with it.... SOMETHING does indeed stink here!!

 

[bogey54311]

Bogey - the seam shown in Soreaintya's pics shows the seam going into a small diamond. Your first pic does not show the seam, nor do any of the others. If you have such a pic, then show it. I doubt Aaron would take any pics that would display shoddy workmanship, or that you, as his bud, would post any that did.

when aaron takes pics of the full wrap, he shoots at the seam. he has always done this as long as ive know him.

chris G

 

[ChrisOnline]

Bogey - the seam shown in Soreaintya's pics shows the seam going into a small diamond. Your first pic does not show the seam, nor do any of the others. If you have such a pic, then show it. I doubt Aaron would take any pics that would display shoddy workmanship, or that you, as his bud, would post any that did.

i dont see the seam in that top picture either.. but what i think bogey means is the ends of the lizard... where it seams to the buttplate and the forearm..

if he is saying something else, and i am completley wrong, i appologize.. but thats what i got out of looking at the pics..

chris

 

[runscott]

when aaron takes pics of the full wrap, he shoots at the seam. he has always done this as long as ive know him.

chris G

Well the Chris, go back and take a look at Soreaintya's pic of the seem, and the position of the diamond in the forearm above the seem, then look at Aaron's. As I'm sure you would admit, pictures don't lie and there is NO seem shown in Aaron's picture. And this last reply of yours, along with all of Aaron's, ensures me that opening this thread is a total waste of time.

 

[rackem]

somethink i dont understand.
i see the pics of the wrap that you took sore.
looks rough.
if i got a cue like that, i'd be mad too.

ONE PROBLEM.

aaron took his own pics of the wrap and finish before he shipped the cue.
i would go after the shipping company who delivered it.
the first pic is of the wrap seam.

something stinks here!

Just what does the shipping company have to do with the rush job on getting the wrap done. It lifted because Aaron has already admitted he rushed it and did not tape it and let it dry properly.
I would also figure that the scatches are there because Aaron freaked when he lost the signature. He sent the cue off to Russ to be resigned before he finish sanded it. When he got it back he could not sand anymore or he would lose the signature again. Just my take on what might have happened. At any rate if the customer is not happy refund the money and move on. I am pretty sure Sore is not making up the flaws.