The only thing I know about you is the quality of "your" work from pictures posted in this thread, and "your" own words.
As I said before you come off as immature, and you are evasive when you post information. You don't answer simple questions directly.
All cuemakers I know are proud of both work and their equipment. When asked questions about how and why they construct cues using their methods they are glad to share the information. When you first came on this site you were asked some of those questions that would have been the time for you to explain why you use veneers in the cues like you do. People are still going to buy them if they look attractive and play well as long as they know upfront how you d things. On your website, do you have pictures of your shop and equipment, you have been on this board for a while, has any other forum member visited your shop? I would love to hear about that.
Is this fun for me, hell no in fact I find the whole affair distasteful. I have tried to offer you what advice I could in the other threads about customer service and full disclosure of your methods, which you have ignored or replied back with deception and spin. The posting record is there why don't you read it again? Why am I taking up this cause....because of your lack of honesty and your responses to your customers. Because of this you are making it even tougher for any new cuemaker who wants to get there own start. Now they are going to have to bear the suspicion of using veneers like you do in your cues.
In short, I don't believe a word you say because I have only two things to go on, the quality of you work, and how you treat these customers that have issues with you and have posted there problems. If you remember from my past posts this is all on you, as you "made" the cue and sent it out in the condition it is in. If you did not want this trouble, you should have sent out a better product the second time, and for the other person you should have sent out his cue by now. You are only pissed off about all of this because you were caught. Deal with it like a man. Since you have not been honest to you customers it makes me wonder what else you are not saying.
As far as the "China Connection" that wasn't even my own idea. I had a thread in another forum linking back to all of this. Another cuemaker opened my eyes to this. He is absolutely sure that the veneered cues were made in China, as he has dealer catalogs of 100's of these cues that can be ordered for under 20 bucks.
http://www.jimboarmy.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7871
Are you doing this? I don't know for sure. (I really want to believe you are not doing this) My post was a hypothetical. Why don't you post some pictures of your equipment and stock, and get someone from AZ to visit you and see and report on your cue construction abilities.
And Brian when you feel strong enough to punch in my teeth let me know.
Holy %&$% for the first time someone on AZ has made me feel like knocking their teeth in. I don't get pissed very often, but that is it. i am not going to set around while I am run in the ground. Don't accuse me of one more dirty or crooked thing Tony.
To follow up on your statement "If you think about it, he gets a cue to a customer in 3-4 weeks. He either has a lot of wood in his shop that has been turned for months and is ready to go or he buys these cues @ dealer prices from overseas, adds his ID information, rewraps them and ships them out. At a nice profit."
Haven't you noticed Tony, I have been unable to get the cues out that quick. That was one of my biggest mistakes was quoting too short of time frames. Had you been concerned with this issue, other than for your own fun, you would realize that that is a major complaint. I didn't get them out in 3 to 4 weeks. But I haven't told anyone 3 to 4 weeks, except when I had a bunch built ahead and ran a special on here, so be reasonable. I don't take orders and tell them 3 to 4 weeks. Just because I not going to get on here and get in a verbal fight you keep piling it on trying to coax me into a good ole fashion ***** fest. You have said more than the OP. You have ran me down more than he has. Were you the guy who knocked books out of people's hands in school to make other people laugh? I bet you were. YOU KNOW NOTHING about me, but I would be GLAD to introduce myself. Why don't you grow up. Say some stuff that is related to this post. You have made this your own personal mission to make me look bad and I am not sure why. Oh, and to take the fun out of it for you, don't bother putting in your next comment that I am making myself look bad, as that is a way to obvious comeback. To quote Mfarrey's tag line "Assumption is the mother of all f*** ups"
