What cuemakers do you NOT have to ask, "Are the points straight?"

Impact Blue said:
Recuts, veneered, full-spliced...et cetera. Which cuemakers do you see in the FS/FT, or elsewhere of interest, do you feel the most confident about not having to ask about exacting ringwork and/or point work?

For example: Black Boar, Vollmer Cues
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In all honesty, there are TONS of cuemakers out there today doing great pointwork. To try and narrow it down to just a few names is kinda difficult.

For example, Mike Webb is doing AMAZING pointwork. Richard Harris (Bluegrass cues) does recuts. Travis Nikklich is doing phenonal full splices cues with near perfect points. The Tascarellas, Barry Szamboti, John Showman, Dennis Searing, Ron Haley..... you see what I mean? When you see cues by MOST of these guys, I'm not really checking for the exactness of their points. Chances are, they're spot on.
 
dick neighbors. put some really nice rings, inlays, and razor sharp points in my cue.
 
Fatboy said:
The real question is who can get the points/veneers straight by hand. NOT CNC, anyone exceot me-can get perfect points with CNC with a bit of practice, thats the question.


the answere, it dosnent really matter, if they are within .5-.7mm they are just fine, On my Black Boar there is a slight difference, same goes for Barry on sone cues, others are perfect. It has no effect on anything, thats what matters,

best
eric
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You are right on with the CNC thing, cant be in the same class. I took a 30 plus year old veneered cue to the DCC a couple years ago and had a dealer look at it to buy or take on trade and he gets out a jewlers magnifier and says " I can see the glue line in the veneers ". A friend of mine who is a great cue maker was with me and he says " give me a break the cue is over 30 years old ". He then says " I bet I could pick out something wrong with most of the cues in this booth ".
 
Fatboy said:
The real question is who can get the points/veneers straight by hand. NOT CNC, anyone exceot me-can get perfect points with CNC with a bit of practice, thats the question.



best
eric
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If they are truly spliced then CNC doesn't change anything. How the points end up in a spliced cue depends on how you work the cue after that are spliced in not how they got in there. Now if they are inlaid points , after the fact , like so many then its hard to not have them line up when CNC'd.

Either way , I'll put in a Vote for Nitti , Haley and Showman.

The Varney vote was pretty funny tho. ;) Has he ever even put his own points in a cue ? :D
 
Fatboy said:
The real question is who can get the points/veneers straight by hand. NOT CNC, anyone exceot me-can get perfect points with CNC with a bit of practice, thats the question.


the answere, it dosnent really matter, if they are within .5-.7mm they are just fine, On my Black Boar there is a slight difference, same goes for Barry on sone cues, others are perfect. It has no effect on anything, thats what matters,

best
eric
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Holey-Moley Batman, I can't believe I am agreeing with FATBOY.....everything he says is true......hell you should see some of my butterfly points......let alone my pointy points.......all cue by hand......NOT THE SOULESS CNC....F#CK WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE....play with one....that is where the true test is.
 
When I rec'd my custom from Jeff Olney, I used thread to string line end to end thru the rings, thru the points, thru the inlays, ... all the way down. There were essentialy two "line up patterns" in the cue/inlays/rings - 4 points/slotted rings w/ 8 ivory slots... So there was a line up centered on the points/slots/inlays, and a line up centered between the points, w/ slots/inlays.
Dead - solid - perfect. Every line.
(See butt in my avatar)
 
Michael Webb.
It is one of the reasons I chose to have make our cues.
I have seen him throw away (gasp!) what some consider "good enough" He is a perfectionist.

Jim
 
Patrick

ITguy said:
Michael Webb.
It is one of the reasons I chose to have make our cues.
I have seen him throw away (gasp!) what some consider "good enough" He is a perfectionist.

Jim
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Doug Patrick did a sporty job on my Ivory 4 point custom!
 
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