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What Is A "custom" Pool Cue?
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this guy in his post number 58 sums up what makes a "hand-made" cue..
http://www.thesnookerforum.com/board/showthread.php?t=11331&page=6
on a more serious side, people will argue til the end of time on what makes a cue custom or not. my honest opinion is that if the cue was built specifically for a customer, then it's custom. if it was already built, not one of one, and the customer bought it off the rack, then it is a production cue. (before the detractors start, yes it may have been built specifically for someone else, but......)
when I work on someone's cue and they proudly beam about it being custom, I smile and do the repairs. harping about custom/not custom does neither me nor my customer any good.
http://www.thesnookerforum.com/board/showthread.php?t=11331&page=6
on a more serious side, people will argue til the end of time on what makes a cue custom or not. my honest opinion is that if the cue was built specifically for a customer, then it's custom. if it was already built, not one of one, and the customer bought it off the rack, then it is a production cue. (before the detractors start, yes it may have been built specifically for someone else, but......)
when I work on someone's cue and they proudly beam about it being custom, I smile and do the repairs. harping about custom/not custom does neither me nor my customer any good.
Jack Flanagan said:this guy in his post number 58 sums up what makes a "hand-made" cue..
http://www.thesnookerforum.com/board/showthread.php?t=11331&page=6
on a more serious side, people will argue til the end of time on what makes a cue custom or not. my honest opinion is that if the cue was built specifically for a customer, then it's custom. if it was already built, not one of one, and the customer bought it off the rack, then it is a production cue. (before the detractors start, yes it may have been built specifically for someone else, but......)
when I work on someone's cue and they proudly beam about it being custom, I smile and do the repairs. harping about custom/not custom does neither me nor my customer any good.
This subject was beaten to a bloody pulp years ago on RSB.
The only point of concensus was that it made sence to classify
a cuemaker as a custom cuemaker - but determining what was
or was not, a custom cue had become meaningless.
FWIW - when the term was first used it ment contacting
Herman Rambow and specifying what weght and shaft diameter
you wanted.
IIUC - Herman only made cues to order, once he was on his own
and well established.
Two questions:
1. Why would a cue have to be the only one of its kind to be
classified as custom?
2. If I build a cue to your specs - we meet for delivery - me with the cue
you with the money. Before you can hand me the payment, you drop
dead from a stroke.
How then does the cue in my hands suddenly morph into
a production cue? What is the process?
Dale<maker of custom cues - with limitations>
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pdcue said:
I am aware that on several venues, we CUE MAKERS have hashed & rehashed this subject. I posted this to CUE BUYERS, to get a feedback of what THEY think they are looking for, when shopping for a "CUSTOM CUE"...JER
Since this is addressed to the Cue Buyers it should be posted in the main forum. Then post a link to it here for the cuemakers to see the publics answers. It should get more action on the main forum. Before I was a cuemaker I thought a custom cue meant there was something special about the cue, including it being just a less common production cue. Now I would narrow that more than then, but let's see what the other buyers think.
BLACKHEARTCUES said:
I uinderstood that, my response was more to Jack and those
who share his view, of which there are plenty.
FWIW - in these days of universal info, don't you think buyers
are strongly influenced by what cuemakers tell them?
Dale<who bought more than one>