Wrap question

asiasdad said:
A custom cue with that cheap looking black with white spec wrap used on
production cues does not sell as quickly or for the money that the custom
cue would sell for with a wrap that is coordinated to the wood/veneers
of the custom cue.

Its that simple.

common sense on this site seems to be uncommon.
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For the last 15 years the only thing that I have built are completely custom cues. What the customer wants, I build. I have many different types and designs of leather, I have 28 different color combinations of Linen. Linen is picked over both leather and wood at least 6 to 1. The linen that is chosen is black/white about 8 to 1 over white/green which is #2 and goes on most traditional cues and third is single white/black linen. When I build cues with turquoise I usually us black/blue and when I use malachite I use black/green. almost all of the rest of my pound rolls are almost full as they are so seldom chosen.

Black/white is usually chosen because it appears to stay cleaner for a much longer period of time.

Dick
 
asiasdad said:
A custom cue with that cheap looking black with white spec wrap used on
production cues does not sell as quickly or for the money that the custom
cue would sell for with a wrap that is coordinated to the wood/veneers
of the custom cue.

Its that simple.

common sense on this site seems to be uncommon.
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Totally and what about that BEM! That crap looks like chicken skin.
 
asiasdad said:
A custom cue with that cheap looking black with white spec wrap used on
production cues does not sell as quickly or for the money that the custom
cue would sell for with a wrap that is coordinated to the wood/veneers
of the custom cue.

Its that simple.

common sense on this site seems to be uncommon.
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You are absolutely and completely incorrect in your assement.

It is that simple.

It is, at this point, painfully obvious that you are one of two things:

1. A delusional twit with an irrational prejudice against the most popular
wrap choice of all time(not to mention reality).

2. A clever TROLL.

It is that simple

I'm voting for troll and bidding you a fond adieu.

There was some good info in this otherwise waste of time, esp from Dick
who has prolly wrapped upwards of 1000 cues over the last few decades.
But who's counting?

Dale(acting head of the troll police)
 
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asiasdad said:
Why do some cuemakers go through all the work to find aesthetically
pleasing woods, veneers, etc to only ruin all their work with that
butt ugly black with white spec wrap ?

That wrap just screams: CHEAP PRODUCTION CUE
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When the choice of wrap comes down to a great match up or black with white, I go with the former, When it is B/W or one that looks lousy, then it's B/W. Most brown woods are hard to match. In the end it is sales that matter, not the taste of one potential buyer. If you like the cue get the wrap changed.
 
The other factor is probably cost. A nice lizard or elephant wrap adds 250 to 350 to the cost of the cue. Many don't wanna spend that on a wrap. If they do peel off the linen and have at it.

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Some of the readers know me to be an Irish Linen fan when it comes to pool wraps.
More specifically, it's actually Cortland Linen wraps I prefer on my pool cues.

PROBLEM: Cortland Linen Isn't Made Any Longer

SOLUTION: Search To Find Some......If Lucky, Settle For What You Can Find.

OUTCOME: Frustration, Impatience, and Joe Pechauer.....Thank God.


The only Cortland around anywhere, and the world's supply of Cortland Linen is almost gone, happens to be #9 (white with green speck).
I've searched since last summer and can attest to this fact. My challenge was I wanted a different Cortland color....Hah! The wrap I need
for my custom cue underway is Cortland #12 (white with black speck) but I'm not finding any. Fortunately, Joe Pechauer sold me some #9
for my cue and so I feel fortunate, but not quite lucky. If I had been, I'd have found some #12.

So back to the OP thread.......I wonder why manufacturers of Irish Linen. like Hurlbert, do not introduce pool wrap linens with different colors
since it's only a matter of the dyeing process. Maybe the market is too small to cater to any changes. It sure seems like in LInen wraps, it's a
very boring selection. And what pisses me off is today's linen wraps are inferior to the feel and overall quality of Cortland Linen that was a
manually hand-twisted, fishing line and not machine twisted or braided like other Irish Linens, including Hurlbert Linens made today.

Anyway, the black with white speck wrap is very popular with cue-makers but can seem sorta blah and boring when you see it all the time. But
when that wrap is on a really handsome cue, it doesn't seem to come across the same way and seems to show better. So I think it's the cue
design decides whether its black & white linen wrap is just ho-hum or really works well with the cue design. I sure wish there was more selection
in Irish Linen wraps because Cortland is starting to become more rare than hens teeth

Matt B.
 
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