Schmelke clean up

DawgAndy

DawgAndy

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I just got a nice ebony pete with butterfly spilces and it hits great. I looked at it close and noticed the points aren't "clean". I'm not worried about them being even but there's little bits of ebony around the tip of the points and a couple of glue marks. One of the v's is not very square either. I called the guy and he said It was a blank and for the money that's what you get. Fine .My question is can this be cleaned up? Maybe some ebony v inlays at the splice or something. I didn't pay a ton and know the issue of blanks has been touched before so I don't want to start that again.

thanks guys

Andy
 
You can always lay inlays over the bottom where the points start or over the ends of the points you can inlay point caps. But all that plus a refinish will probably run you at least a couple of hundred dollars. So are the imperfections worth that much to you?
Chris
www.cuesmith.com
www.internationalcuemakers.com
 
Thanks Chris. The jury is still out on what I can live with.lol. I guess I was wrong thinking that a custom cuemaker would actually make the splice himself. A 300 dollar + assumption. Still might do some burl inlays at the splice. Maybe with some tax return money.
I guess I wish he would have been more choosey on which blank he was going to do such nice work on.
Andy
 
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There are only a handful of cuemakers that do the full splice themselves. And $300+ won't touch a cue from most of them. I farm 95% of my full splice work out also. The advantage I have over most cue makers is that since I sell full spliced blanks I do enough business to get some butts done special, the way I want them with longer points and different woods and such for my personal cues. The exception to farming out full splice work would be the full splice butterfly butts which I do in house. The straight grained butterfly butts I farm out also.
Don't be too hard on the guy for not making it all himself as Balabushka farmed his point blanks out also.
Chris
 
Not too negative

Chris,
it's not that he didn't make it and I like the cue I just wish he would have been a little more selective with his blanks thats all. The work he did on the cue is fantastic. BTW what is "wildwood"? My cue has a band of it along the bottom and it looks really neat. Is it man made? The cue also has one of the shafts from under water like timeless timber but has a different name. It is stiff plus a g-10 pin. All and all a good hitter. Now if Dave Barenbrugge would just send me a free sample my butterfly odessy would be complete.
Have a good weekend.
Thinking about you Blud.
Andy
 
Wildwood is a company that acrylic and color dye impregnates wood. He usually uses really nice pieces of burl wood and such. His pieces are usually very nice and very pricey.
Chris
 
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