Ok so ive been building for a few yrs now (been doing repairs for over 6 yrs) and have progressed into a decent cue builder and have talked to a good many diffrent makers about pet peeves and what not and figured id share some dont's for some new guys so as to stay on the right right of the tracks with fellow cue builders.
1. dont call every cue builder who's phone number you can find online and bagger them about every aspect of cue building moving from one builder to another until you get all the answers.
2. try to do it before you ask about it, i know you dont want to fu*k up what your doing but sometimes thats part of learning.
3. when someone is kind enough to share the knowledge with you on how to do something, DO NOT post it up as its old hat for you and your own knowledge when you havent even done it before.
4. dont name drop cuemakers who have given you hand here in there, it looks desprete and they may not mind helping but may not want to be affiliated with how your cues turn out
5. do not offer to help out another cuemaker with a wood transaction and steal the source for yourself, like a greedy dog.
6. try not to give yourself to much props until youve atleast finshed a cue from begining to end by yourself.
7. dont say that your as good as other makers that have been around for a while built tons of cue and spent thousands of hours figuring this stuff out when you havent finished a cue yourself yet.
8. dont talk about technical things like Zero backlash when you have no idea what it is, and have never even ran a CNC machine.
9. find your own style, for the looks and your own way to build a cue internally that fiits you dont just steal everyone elses idea and knowledge.
(if you have a mentor im sure you will be biased on how to build a cue)
10. well dont act like this certain person, and you should be fine. And dont use G5 for everything under the sun in cue building Epxy does not replace wood!!!!!!!!!!!
hopefully this helps some new people out in the future.
1. dont call every cue builder who's phone number you can find online and bagger them about every aspect of cue building moving from one builder to another until you get all the answers.
2. try to do it before you ask about it, i know you dont want to fu*k up what your doing but sometimes thats part of learning.
3. when someone is kind enough to share the knowledge with you on how to do something, DO NOT post it up as its old hat for you and your own knowledge when you havent even done it before.
4. dont name drop cuemakers who have given you hand here in there, it looks desprete and they may not mind helping but may not want to be affiliated with how your cues turn out
5. do not offer to help out another cuemaker with a wood transaction and steal the source for yourself, like a greedy dog.
6. try not to give yourself to much props until youve atleast finshed a cue from begining to end by yourself.
7. dont say that your as good as other makers that have been around for a while built tons of cue and spent thousands of hours figuring this stuff out when you havent finished a cue yourself yet.
8. dont talk about technical things like Zero backlash when you have no idea what it is, and have never even ran a CNC machine.
9. find your own style, for the looks and your own way to build a cue internally that fiits you dont just steal everyone elses idea and knowledge.
(if you have a mentor im sure you will be biased on how to build a cue)
10. well dont act like this certain person, and you should be fine. And dont use G5 for everything under the sun in cue building Epxy does not replace wood!!!!!!!!!!!
hopefully this helps some new people out in the future.
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