Maybe he has a friend who has a stake in this deal. Are you familiar with this whole situation or are just providing your 2 cents because it is a cuemaker posting about another cuemaker? Jim saying it needs to stay at the top until it gets resolved is hardly bashing and if it is putting a little pressure then well maybe you should do a little research on this topic before you ask that question.
To answer your next question no I do not have a stake in this as well but I have a very good friend who does so that puts me on the playing field and I am ready to tee off on this topic but am holding my breath as long as I can.
Are you a cue maker? Are you Jim Baxter? My post was directed at Jim, nobody else. It wasn't a knock on him. It was friendly advice if anything at all. Heaven forbid he may ever be in a bad situation with life that prevents him from completing work. I don't know what's wrong with Jim Lee, don't really even care to know. I'm not taking up for him. If his customers want to form a mob & go after him then by all means have at it. But for a so called cue maker to join the mob, it's not his place. Shit happens to EVERY cue maker at some point. It will happen to Baxter just like the rest of us. How will he feel when we all start climbing on his back while he's down? That's my point. The pissed off customers are more than enough stress on Lee. He doesn't need his "peers" busting his balls, too.
I have been there & know what it's like having life "issues" that prevented me from even stepping foot into my shop, let alone shipping cues out. It's nobody's business, nothing for anybody to know about. You'll get your cue when i'm ABLE. If i'm unable then i'm unable. I can't miracle a cue into existence. And i'm not really interested in sharing personal issues with people I don't know, especially when there's a good chance they'll gossip it all out in public forums. So the best solution would be to focus on getting things straight & well, then resume the work and take the heat for being late. Of course everybody uninvolved has opinions & solutions that are better. Everybody knows what's best for me except for me. Yeah yeah yeah. It's a spectator sport. Until you are on that side of the fence, you don't know what you'd do or how you'd handle the situation. That's pretty much all i'm saying. It's the perspective that customers don't ever get to see or experience.
I feel for anybody who feels they are losing money. I would do everything I could to correct the situation & make things right. But it would be once I corrected things with myself so that i'm ABLE to fix everything else. How long that takes is unpredictable. I assume Lee will make things right just like anybody else would do. But he has to be able. That level of ability is not for you, or me, or anybody but Lee to determine. Judge not least ye be judged. We all fall down. If you don't, you're not human. Getting back up is easier for some than others. Doesn't make people bad or wrong.
I used myself in a lot of this post because I have had a terrible past year that I barely survived, and I know all too well how people jump into mob threads to bash on me & assume i'm a crook or scammer or whatever, when the reality was that I simply had things in my life to heal from & correct BEFORE I could even go into my shop to work. I also know exactly who the folks are who are so quick to judge & join the mobs. It's easy to pattern. People did it to me that have never worked with me before, nor even know me personally. They haven't even met me. But here they are, throwing out their opinions of my character & integrity, not realizing any thread of truth of the actual situation. And that's fine. There are douche bags everywhere. But for cue makers, who should know better, to get involved with the mob is worse, IMO. That's all I got to say about it. Heaven forbid Baxter ever gets in a bad situation. Hell will fall on him, too, and he'll know exactly what Lee is feeling right now.
