Ray Schuler Cues
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Cue-maker signatures on cues are a great addition and add a special touch for the cue's owner. I only have one signed cue right now and it's Paul Mottey. Richard Black also has an exquisite signature as does Kenny Murrell and others as well.
The cues in the photos look great but someone should suggest to write a whole lot smaller and you do not need to write "by" when you are the cue-maker. Ray needed a logo for the cue butt sleeve and to write neater and a whole lot smaller like so many other cue-makers do. The signature on these cues look more like it was a book signing and just needlessly distract and diminish the cue's attractiveness......IMO.
p.s. Oops.....didn't know about Ray's passing so obviously his signature penmanship is what it is.
The cues in the photos look great but someone should suggest to write a whole lot smaller and you do not need to write "by" when you are the cue-maker. Ray needed a logo for the cue butt sleeve and to write neater and a whole lot smaller like so many other cue-makers do. The signature on these cues look more like it was a book signing and just needlessly distract and diminish the cue's attractiveness......IMO.
p.s. Oops.....didn't know about Ray's passing so obviously his signature penmanship is what it is.
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Ray passed in 2002...
I have one that has a small autograph. I own 4 and love them all.
I have a nice Schuler Butterfly cue, with 3 of his different taper shafts, including a snooker shaft with a brass ferrule they made specially at my request (even though Ray didn't want to use brass on it).
It used to be my player, before I started building my own cues.
In fact, the first shaft I made, was an additional shaft for my Schuler cue.
Might have to dig it out and take a few picts in memory of Ray. Nice guy, we met him in Vegas around 99 or 00. I remember great customer service from them. Just my 2c ... as they say !! :thumbup:
It used to be my player, before I started building my own cues.
In fact, the first shaft I made, was an additional shaft for my Schuler cue.
Might have to dig it out and take a few picts in memory of Ray. Nice guy, we met him in Vegas around 99 or 00. I remember great customer service from them. Just my 2c ... as they say !! :thumbup:
Ray loved three cushion billiards. Ralph Guest introduced me to Ray at a BCA trade show in the late 1980's. Ray would not sell me a cue at the show for less than full retail. I was probably going to become a dealer if he would have sold me that cue for wholesale. But he would not budge and I never became a dealer. We probably both lost out on that deal. I remember Ralph teasing Ray telling him that he was not going to have time to build any cues anyway since he spent all his time on the Billiard table. I saw Ray several more times before he passed away. He was inducted into The International Cuemakers Hall of Fame not too long ago.