ElCorazonFrio
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Justin, get some mental help. You get victimized so often that it is obvious you are the problem.
Why are some cue makers so rude and have bad attitudes?
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It never fails. The lowballers want the most for the least.
Raise your repair prices.
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Shafts
All this drama over a transaction that didn't happen when the OP could of just ordered one in from Schmelke for 65.00 new and bypassed this drama queen bullshit.
But then again Schmelke doesn't do low ballers either
And for all we know the shaft might be for a cue the OP is wanting to flip.
All this drama over a transaction that didn't happen when the OP could of just ordered one in from Schmelke for 65.00 new and bypassed this drama queen bullshit.
But then again Schmelke doesn't do low ballers either
And for all we know the shaft might be for a cue the OP is wanting to flip.
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I do not consider myself to be one of the nasty cuemakers. But your questions show you have doubt in his abilities. In my earlier years I have handed people back their cue at tournaments after them asking me about ten times if I am sure removing their dent with steam would not warp their cue. My friend said I seemed rude, but after someone telling me ten times they have no confidence in me I was tired of trying to convince them I know what I am doing. If I had been the cuemaker you dealt with I would probably have suggested to you that you find someone local you have confidence in if I felt you had no confidence in me.
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justinb386
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I did not mean 'directly' from a known cue maker.
justinb386
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The only reason that I made that request is because he is a cue maker, so he has the equipment to turn the shaft down to anything that a customer may ask for. It was only a request. He could have been nice about the way he replied back.
You can go onto Ebay and Find 3/8x10 shafts for, $50.00
But, almost all are low grains per inch, lots of runout on the grain and lots of Chruch Steeples and sugar grain or bleached wood.
Anyway, you usually find these at 13mm.
If someone brings in a 13 mm and asks me to do a turndown to 12.3mm, its, $30 for the first .25mm and then $5 for each .25mm and I only turn down 1/2mm at a time and then reseal and destress the wood and wait some time and then turn down again.
Anyway, each time I do a turndown, the customer is also getting a complete shaft treatment in the process,
They get a Sealed, Polished, waxed and Microburnished shaft polished out to 3000 grit, so there is an advantage to the turndown but there is a cost as well.
Just realize the good repairman are giving you something more than you started with for the money you are spending.
Hope this clear some of the questions, up.
Good Luck on your shaft search, but if you are just looking for a shaft to add to a butt and sell, then look on ebay and get one for, $40.00 plus shipping and call it good. They even come with a new LePro which costs, $10.00.
Mike 'acedonkeyace' Kennedy
But, almost all are low grains per inch, lots of runout on the grain and lots of Chruch Steeples and sugar grain or bleached wood.
Anyway, you usually find these at 13mm.
If someone brings in a 13 mm and asks me to do a turndown to 12.3mm, its, $30 for the first .25mm and then $5 for each .25mm and I only turn down 1/2mm at a time and then reseal and destress the wood and wait some time and then turn down again.
Anyway, each time I do a turndown, the customer is also getting a complete shaft treatment in the process,
They get a Sealed, Polished, waxed and Microburnished shaft polished out to 3000 grit, so there is an advantage to the turndown but there is a cost as well.
Just realize the good repairman are giving you something more than you started with for the money you are spending.
Hope this clear some of the questions, up.
Good Luck on your shaft search, but if you are just looking for a shaft to add to a butt and sell, then look on ebay and get one for, $40.00 plus shipping and call it good. They even come with a new LePro which costs, $10.00.
Mike 'acedonkeyace' Kennedy
justinb386
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No, I think he told me the shaft would be 13mm. So I guess I was a moron for asking him if he could make it 12.3mm for me. Is it so hard to just be nice? If you do not like a request a potential customer is making, then tell them how much extra that would cost, instead of getting nasty with that person. I could have paid the 50 for the 13mm shaft, but I would not have been happy with it. I was just wanting some old decent quality shaft that had already been used all to hell, and turned down to a very low mm over the years. I was not asking for a new shaft.
justinb386
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I was not trying to abuse the offer. Was just making a friendly request. This thread had nothing to do with prices of shafts or anything else. The point of my thread was about some of the nasty attitudes that people have. Not just cue makers obviously.
justinb386
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Lol, you are a funny guy.
justinb386
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Yeah, so please take it easy on mentally ill people like me, and lose the bad attitudes. Thanks
justinb386
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I never low balled anyone on here. I just created a wtb ad, and set a price. People just get angry when I do not want or accept what they offer me for the price that I set.
justinb386
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All this drama over a transaction that didn't happen when the OP could of just ordered one in from Schmelke for 65.00 new and bypassed this drama queen bullshit.
But then again Schmelke doesn't do low ballers either
And for all we know the shaft might be for a cue the OP is wanting to flip.
No thanks to a shaft from them. By the way, I do not ask cue makers to lower their asking prices.
justinb386
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Well, you are a well respected forum member on here, so I would have complete trust in your abilities. I have learned the hard way to only get my cue repaired by cue repairmen that I know have very satisfied customers. I am too poor to gamble on the unknowns out there.
Schmelke has some of the best wood in the country, why no thanks?
justinb386
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Oh, I did not know that. I just remember having a few of their cues back in the 90's, and I did not care for the ones that I had. I do not know. I just always thought they were a very cheaply made cue. I always thought they were like on par with a Mali for example (never liked Mali cues either). Maybe I did not know the good thing that I was missing.
You should have bought that shaft at 13mm and turn it down at 12.3mm and you would avoid all this mess
With using glass or emery paper it would take you 5 minutes if you would put yourself on speedy modeLike in movies!
With using glass or emery paper it would take you 5 minutes if you would put yourself on speedy mode
Like in movies!
What in the HECK did I just waste my time reading?
Yes . For $50, you should have jumped on it and not request it turned down some .7MM more . A good cue maker only takes down 1/4 to 1/2 of a MM and let it sit for weeks. Specially when you wanted A LONG TAPER.
He couldn't win with you. When he acted nice and professionally, you thought he was nasty.
But, you still asked him to turn the shaft down to 12.3MM.
After checking some of the threads you started, it makes me wonder.
You lost on a great deal on a BRAND NEW SHAFT. But, you claim you can't afford to gamble on a no-named maker.
So, move on .
The maker who was nice enough to offer you a new shaft for $50 learned a valuable lesson, I hope.
For every great buyer out there you will have just as many that will jerk you around for as long as you let them! Especially if you sell stuff online and even more so if you sell on forums!! If sellers are relatively new they will tend to miss a lot of red flags that experienced sellers will latch on to and move on to greener pastures. There's so many DCP types online that until you sell or sell in quantity you won't get a grasp of just how rampant they are.