REBUILD A CUE

jdsons

jdsons

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I have a 1968-69 cue that is not straight. The lift or warp whatever is not bad. It appears to be at the joint and C ring area. I am not sure. I was lead to believe that a cue can be taken apart and put back together, rebuild. Are any makers offering that's service. If so, how much does that run???

Julian
 
A cue can't easily be taken apart and put together, it's not LEGO..
Can you replace individual components in a cue? To a certain extent. But if a cue has so much wrong with it that it doesn't make sense from a time or money perspective it's often best to leave it. Time does funny things to materials and it can be very hard to match colours, weave patterns etc.
 
Unless it's a one of a kind or stupid sentimental, I am not sure it'd ever be worth the time and money to try and disassemble a cue, hoping to un-warp it.

When cues warp, it's not because the joint gets tweaked or bent, it's because the wood was affected by moisture and has stressfully warped into a new shape. At this point, it's pretty much kaput.

It's probably possible, but the amount of time and money to do it, just buy a new cue.
 
RidgeRaider said:
Unless it's a one of a kind or stupid sentimental, I am not sure it'd ever be worth the time and money to try and disassemble a cue, hoping to un-warp it.

When cues warp, it's not because the joint gets tweaked or bent, it's because the wood was affected by moisture and has stressfully warped into a new shape. At this point, it's pretty much kaput.

It's probably possible, but the amount of time and money to do it, just buy a new cue.
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Do you work on,
Or build Cues???
 
Michael Webb said:
Do you work on,
Or build Cues???
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I do a bit of both.

If someone brought me a warped cue and a budget less than a blank check, I'm not sure I'd ever entertain deconstructing a cue to unwarp it.

This may say more about my skills as a cue maker, or it may say more about my customer service skills and setting expectations. I don't mind being judged.

In either case, I don't want to be on the hook for the time of deconstructing a cue, possibly discovering a disaster (even the greatest cue makers have sold disasters) and not being able to meet clients expectations with the reconstruction they'd be hoping for if everything didn't go perfect. All for what? It's not like someone is actually going to be willing to pay thousands to straighten a cue, like I said before unless it's insanely rare or sentimental, I just don't see the payoff being bigger than the risk. Not like I just go grab another TAD off the shelf if I find a disaster and get blamed for it.
 
RidgeRaider said:
I do a bit of both.

If someone brought me a warped cue and a budget less than a blank check, I'm not sure I'd ever entertain deconstructing a cue to unwarp it.

This may say more about my skills as a cue maker, or it may say more about my customer service skills and setting expectations. I don't mind being judged.
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Ok!
 
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