Are you actually stupid? It takes an incredible moron to bring politics into a thread as generic as "unknown cue"
Yet another Unknown cue please help
- Thread starter RingKing
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Fucking supergeniosity is what it is.
The idea of interchangeable butt sleeves is brilliant. Need to end that wrap a bit earlier though.
I'd buy a few different ones and switch it up whenever I damn felt like it.
Wow that's a little harsh.
I thought of it more as a joke.
Someone posted that it was gaffe cue and I thought of Biden.
Hi-lo points.
That's what I thought too.
You and I are glass half full kind of people and the rest of them are negative nellies.
Let them fail to recognize the edge of anonymous brilliants and live their sad lives.
Lol.
Hate to burst your bubble or knock your high horse off its soap box ; )
It would be 1 high 1 low and 1 mid and 1 real high.
Black-Balled, don't let Ring burst your bubble. I hit the like just for creativity. Supergeniosity is outstanding. The applied blending of language to cue building is truly an art form.
He chose a bad cue to practice on. Looks like a first effort. I have the “3rd or 4th” cue Barry ever made. It’s pretty good-but he had a head start.
For a first effort cue, this is much better than I could do. I not gonna knock it, just papers to be a practice/learning thing to me.
Agreed, I've made one cue so far on my deluxe and I didn't bother putting a wrap on it, didn't want to mess it up.
That makes me think (crap) - I wonder if the builder of that cue some how messed up when spinning that down for the wrap and had to go past the joint? Or, he just thought the wrap needed to go further down the cue? Just thinking out loud.
It really takes anyone years of tinkering around to make good cues. And you also have to be handy with tools etc. I’ve been around many cue makers in their shops, seen a few trade secrets, seen some monsters come to life, the whole bit.
It’s a long road to making a $2000 cue and only a few people ever built $20,000 cues. Tremendous talent and working on them for years and years. There’s no shortcut. Sure the proper buy a kit and build a cue was a cool idea. Assembler stuff, great place to start.
I couldn’t build a cue with $5M in tools and the best wood ever. I’m just not handy.
I sure respect those who try and those who do. Would be a amazing feeling to be able to turn wood etc into cues.
I love cues
Fatboy
Its the one he made while he was driving semi's and going to civil-rights protests.
The points and their peaks are actually taken from a course profile of a near by bike race road course.
Glass half-full, yes..... put me in this camp too. Some are clearly glass half empty people! I have a relative(sister) who doubts the glass even exists most of the time.
After detailed measurements it appears that the points match precisely to the stars of the constellation Aries.
Moreover there are three pieces and 7 distinct part to the cue and a total of 21 threads. I believe at 7:21pm on March 21st i am to point the cue toward the setting sun and it will energize and return to its home planet.
Nice!
How many would appreciate Picasso points and windows?
Gus used to come to the pool room in Jersey as he was friends with Tony the owner.
Tony had about a dozen Gus cues and I moved away before Tony passed and I always wondered what happened to them.
There was a cue that would stand out it was a rosewood cue with an Ivory box in the butt that was engraved with Tony's daughter name Gina, she probably kept that one.
After Gus passed Barry would come in once in awhile.
He brought the first cue he ever made and I saw it, a good effort but it lacked the depth of color in the points that his fathers cues had.
But he got a lot better since then about 1988 or so.
I very blessed to have some of Gus and Barry’s work.
I would love to see a Miro cue, or an M.C.Escher.
Picasso would be hard to play, you would have to hit with the joint while holding the tip and butt at the same time.
DeeDeeCues
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It really doesn't take years to make good cues. I have a buddy who is making great players in less than a year. I helped him some along the way, and had the tools.
I was building decent cues when I was 19 using a wood lathe that I built tooling for. Never talked to another cuemaker, never read any books. The first turning experience I had was building cues.
There information and equipment available now should make it easy to build good cues. 20k cues is a different story. I don't aspire to make those and generally don't like them.
I could get you making good cues for only about a million or so.
Or just not pay attention to the shot lines. An Eschers would start at 10,000 for sure.