Who are the best butterfly cue makers
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Dieckman, Barrenbrugge & others
Dave Barrenbrugge makes a magnificent butterfly cue. One of, if not the best, I have ever seen. And he is a contemporary of Dennis Dieckman. I would want to own examples of one or both of their work if I were in search of the best butterfly.
I have also seen devastating work from Paul Mottey, Richard Black and James White. Thus some of the top cuemakers known for traditional points do the butterfly as well.
More recently, I have been impressed with Andy Gilbert whose work is very precise, and Mike Webb, who has put out some beautiful work with butterfly splices too.
Dave Barrenbrugge makes a magnificent butterfly cue. One of, if not the best, I have ever seen. And he is a contemporary of Dennis Dieckman. I would want to own examples of one or both of their work if I were in search of the best butterfly.
I have also seen devastating work from Paul Mottey, Richard Black and James White. Thus some of the top cuemakers known for traditional points do the butterfly as well.
More recently, I have been impressed with Andy Gilbert whose work is very precise, and Mike Webb, who has put out some beautiful work with butterfly splices too.
Dave Barrenbrugge
All the names above do great work, but I would have to go along with Dave Barrenbrugge. Americans have not been exposed to much of his stuff, because of his relationship with Lucky. But the cues that I have seen in person are absolutely incredible!!
Just my opinion,
Jimmy
All the names above do great work, but I would have to go along with Dave Barrenbrugge. Americans have not been exposed to much of his stuff, because of his relationship with Lucky. But the cues that I have seen in person are absolutely incredible!!
Just my opinion,
Jimmy
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Dieckman is one of the early guys doing this. And made a set of videos, and really does it the old fashioned way. Glues blocks of wood together and turns them and voila, butterflies. Although I consider him a friend I have not had the pleasure yet of owning one of his cues but I did have the pleasure of hitting with one this year at SBE and it sure hit as nice as it looked.
Dieckman is one of the early guys doing this. And made a set of videos, and really does it the old fashioned way. Glues blocks of wood together and turns them and voila, butterflies. Although I consider him a friend I have not had the pleasure yet of owning one of his cues but I did have the pleasure of hitting with one this year at SBE and it sure hit as nice as it looked.
skins said:
I certainly would not argue with you, he builds a beautiful Butterfly Cue. He has also been at for long time, it is a shame that he took a break from Cue Making with his ability it is hard to imagin what he would be doing now.
I have always liked the wood screw joint that he and few others use for thier cues, I am just glad he is back building cues again.
In Russia, butterfly splice is most used technology. Look at this:
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showpost.php?p=1122513&postcount=2
This is a true butterfly full spliced cue.
Or this: http://www.cues.omsk.ru/galery2.htm
Although those are russian pyramid cues, it is possible to make a similar pool cue.
Cues in this topic are terribly overloaded. And in my opinion, "standard" points combined with butterfly splices look horrible.
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showpost.php?p=1122513&postcount=2
This is a true butterfly full spliced cue.
Or this: http://www.cues.omsk.ru/galery2.htm
Although those are russian pyramid cues, it is possible to make a similar pool cue.
Cues in this topic are terribly overloaded. And in my opinion, "standard" points combined with butterfly splices look horrible.
Simple said:
In my opinion, your opinion is not only biased but a little off.
I understand a sense of nationalistic pride but you have to open your eyes to the fact that these guys (mostly American cuemakers) are taking an age-old splicing technique and putting modern twists on them. They are pushing the design envelope. They are NOT just taking butterflies and adding more butterflies and throwing a few extra butterflies in until the onlooker goes into seizures from looking at a cue!!!
They may not be your taste but do not knock them.
Personally, even the ugliest of cues listed by other posters impress me far more than these which are the very definition of "overloaded" (to use your own words).
http://fota.mota.ru/view.php?id=197048&img=11
First of all, my opinion has nothing to do with my and cuemakers nationality. This is a question of taste. And I don't knock anybody, don't get me wrong. They do very good job, but I don't like their butterfly splice cues, that's all.pharaoh68 said:
manwon said:
You are definitely right! I never was much of a butterfly fan....but not too long ago, I started taking a closer look at some fancier butterfly cues and really noticed the amount of work in them. I then started liking them. All of the cues you posted are completely outstanding!
Thanks for posting those pictures Manwon!
johnf_34 said:
I posted them for Billy Webb, like I said his techniques are totally outstanding and Unique. The only person who makes Butterflys that over lap like Billy's do is Paul Fanelli, and even Billy says that Pauls work is the Best there is currently, and I certainly can't argue with that.
All I can say is get them soon because the price is certainly going up.
Thanks for the kind words and have a nice day!!!!!!!
