🎈Craig Petersen🎈

🔥Craig Petersen🔥

This is a highly rare 6 point with recut short points by late Craig Petersen. I was really lucky to add this extremely desirable, rare and collectable cue to my collection!😃

Specs:

Weight: 19.5 oz
Length: 58″
Joint: 5/16-18
Shafts: 13 mm
Inlays: Ivory
Wrap: EE Leather

♦️About Craig Petersen

Craig Petersen started making cues as a teenager around 1963. He had learned to play pool at the YMCA in Evanston, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. He soon became fascinated with cues, and started doing repairs in a local pool room. Soon, he had a full service shop in that room, but later ended up working in the cue department at Brunswick.
In 1967, Craig got married and moved to California. He was away from cuemaking for the next eight years, returning to Chicago in 1975. For the next ten years, Craig worked off and on for some of the top Chicago area cuemakers.
In 1985, he opened a shop of his own in Bartlett, Illinois. This shop relocated to Addison, Illinois in 1988, and to Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1990. Craig died unexpectedly in 1992, at the age of 46, having made less than one thousand cues. At the time of his death, Craig was in the process of completing his first five-point cue.
Today, Craig Petersen cues are sought after by cue collectors around the world. Later cues are easily identifiable by a "C.P." logo on their butt caps. Craig was famous for extremely sharp and even points. Also, he had a talent for getting inlays, rings, and points to line up perfectly. This was amazing, considering that all work was done by hand with very little equipment. Cues with piloted joints have very thick joints, usually of stainless steel, with very thin pilots.
Craig was a very influential cuemaker whose designs bridged the gap between traditional cues and cutting edge contemporary inlay patterns. Craig's design and construction influence can be seen in many of today's cues and he had a profound direct influence on the early work of Joe Gold of Cognoscenti Cues because of his having trained Joe in the late 1980s.

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leather wrap labor time?

My cue repair guy just put a leather wrap that I supplied on my cue.
He had to remove the linen and replace with leather for a very reasonable $50.
My question is he said it takes him 4 hours to do the job, is this about right?
only if he fell asleep about 20 minutes into it. I charge $75 + with me supplying the blank, with ALL the prep, and I do move slow, start to finish is about an hour. I am retired and do it for the passion.....but 4 hrs.....IDK....nap time?

Best 1Pocket Player of the 80's - 90's

there was one edition of the dragon world 14.1 that had in it hopkins, ortmann and mike davis, and they were all playing on the tv table the same day. it was a parade of funky strokes.

modern era, i guess soufi, gerson martinez and lee van sticks out
I was able to watch much of Gerson's matches this year at the DCC. At first I thought WTF, and after three days I was a big fan.

cue ID help

Regardless of their numbered status, or whatever name or brand is on the decal, they are mass produced.

If you are really that fussy, why are you looking at mass produced cues?

If you are really that fussy, stop bargain hunting and step up with a few thousand for a proper custom cue.

If you look close enough, even they are not perfect.

You want close to perfection? Get a Searing. There are others.

If you find a perfect cue, I will eat my socks.

If it is made of wood, I will eat my shoes as well.

I have good cues, but I have a more fun dabbling with the productions cues. Why? I dunno. Cheap. Variety. Lots' of "unknowns" to research.

I am not looking to replace my Joss or flip cues, so maybe I am different than most.
I am on the same boat. I have more cues than I can point a pool stick at, the only customs are the cues I have made myself.
I love collecting odds and ends. Still looking for a PBR cue like the two you have. :geek:

cue ID help

I find it very hard to believe that these 97 Series Helmstetter cues, for example, were made in Japan.


The quality just looked horrible, to me. Lop sided inlays, uneven points. The Japanese Helmstetter cues, like the 86 and 87 series, along with the VIP lines, and others, like the Balabushka line, just looked so much nicer, and higher quality.

Kind of makes me sick, thinking about the 97 series Helmstetter cues, for example, lol. They were kind of garbage quality, I thought. Well, not garbage, but just not that great.
Regardless of their numbered status, or whatever name or brand is on the decal, they are mass produced.

If you are really that fussy, why are you looking at mass produced cues?

If you are really that fussy, stop bargain hunting and step up with a few thousand for a proper custom cue.

If you look close enough, even they are not perfect.

You want close to perfection? Get a Searing. There are others.

If you find a perfect cue, I will eat my socks.

If it is made of wood, I will eat my shoes as well.

I have good cues, but I have a more fun dabbling with the productions cues. Why? I dunno. Cheap. Variety. Lots' of "unknowns" to research.

I am not looking to replace my Joss or flip cues, so maybe I am different than most.

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