Production Monitering Tools

[Pool Player 101]

Question: Do you use any sort of production monitering/production control tools to track the cues being built in your shop? This would assure that cues go out of your shop in the same order as they were ordered/purchased.

Or, do you work on whatever cue you feel like, or the cue for whomever called you/talked to you/yelled at you last?

Just curious.

 

[vasilios]

my sneaky petes are processed as a partial group.the customs work at their own pace depending on what is involved with the design.

bill

 

[Mr Hoppe]

...or the cue for whomever called you/talked to you/yelled at you last?

Just curious.

Wow.
Mr H

 

[dave sutton]

Obv a facier cue takes more time. Most build batches of cues. Easier to spray 3-4-5 cues at the same time then set up for 1 at a time.

I do t k ow what to thing about your last line. It implies all of us are constantly missing dates or blowing customers off ect.

Without sounding like a jerk anything in cuemaking that is rushed is usually wrong. All a cuemaker can do is give you the best possible date for completion. Some think this date is set in stone like a court date and it isn't. Even court gets rescheduled.

There are exceptions that do disappear or miss by a year. They are excluded from my conversation.

 

[Pool Player 101]

Bump for more input.

 

[MINDSEYE153]

The wood tells me when to work it, regardless of when it was started.


Paul
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[Pool Player 101]

The wood tells me when to work it, regardless of when it was started.


Paul
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Paul, Sorry. You misunderstood. I meant for this to be a serious poll. Not a joke.

So, does it go like this? You walk into your shop each morning, coffee in hand .... and just wait for the first piece of wood to speak out??

Or, how does it work in your shot.

 

[TellsItLikeItIs]

Paul, Sorry. You misunderstood. I meant for this to be a serious poll. Not a joke.

So, does it go like this? You walk into your shop each morning, coffee in hand .... and just wait for the first piece of wood to speak out??

Or, how does it work in your shot.

he understood you and gave you the right answer.

 

[RocketQ]

With out tramping on any toes. The wood tells us when it is ready. It takes time in between cuts, facing, sanding, finish, We can only go as fast as the wood will let us. Sometimes you get to the last cut and something happens. Bang you gotta start over. That is completely out of our hands. Some go together quick simple cues. A date of completion is a best gues IMO. Sometimes $hit happens. So annonymous Pool Player 101 does this answer your question?

John

 

[TellsItLikeItIs]

This would assure that cues go out of your shop in the same order as they were ordered/purchased.

If the same design cue was being built over and over that may be possible but building customs it is not likely it will happen

Even with cues with the same design there can be oopsies that will cause one cue to fall behind others.

Start on a plain cue and a cue with twenty gazillion inlays and points and they would not finish at the same time.

Way too many people think building custom cues islike an auto assembly line.
The most important thing is they are delivered on time. Your questions make me think you had a cue that was late. Is that why you are asking?

 

[bdcues]

If the same design cue was being built over and over that may be possible but building customs it is not likely it will happen

Even with cues with the same design there can be oopsies that will cause one cue to fall behind others.

Start on a plain cue and a cue with twenty gazillion inlays and points and they would not finish at the same time.

Way too many people think building custom cues islike an auto assembly line.
The most important thing is they are delivered on time. Your questions make me think you had a cue that was late. Is that why you are asking?

Makes most of us think you think something should have been delivered before it was. Who ordered a cue first usually has nothing to do with which cue is done first. I bought a piece of Ziricote last November and the fellow that went with me said he wanted a cue out of it. I told him I would start to look at cutting it in about 2 years. Am I supposed to stop making cues for others because his will not be done for 2, maybe 3 years? Your poll seems to assume things that reflect your lack of knowledge about wood and cuemaking, asking cuemakers opinions while posting anonymously
and not endearing yourself to those you say your posting a serious question to.

Bob Danielson
bdcuesandcomix.com

 

[TellsItLikeItIs]

Makes most of us think you think something should have been delivered before it was. Who ordered a cue first usually has nothing to do with which cue is done first. I bought a piece of Ziricote last November and the fellow that went with me said he wanted a cue out of it. I told him I would start to look at cutting it in about 2 years. Am I supposed to stop making cues for others because his will not be done for 2, maybe 3 years? Your poll seems to assume things that reflect your lack of knowledge about wood and cuemaking, asking cuemakers opinions while posting anonymously
and not endearing yourself to those you say your posting a serious question to.

Bob Danielson
bdcuesandcomix.com

It sems we pretty much agree except for one thing. It aint my poll!

 

[bdcues]

Sorry, it was not directed at you, Tell. Just used your quote cause I liked it.

 

[Mcues]

The wood tells me when to work it, regardless of when it was started.


Paul
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I work on whatever cue is ready to be worked on. The only thing I can guarantee is that if I hurry the process something always goes dragstically wrong.

Mario