Keith Auld custom cue for sale

[willytan]

if keith has packed up for good, then shouldn't this be a ***collector's item***?

Maybe you wanna buy it n collect before i upz the price and it becomes a "collectors Item"?

[teacup]

You're right - he has packed up for good, and sold his workshop on ebay (I was also told that Mike Wooldridge tried to buy some of his equipment, but by that time everything had been sold) - you may remember that a group of us was recently employed to look at the viability of small independant cue makers and report back to one of the government agencies and apart from others we contacted Keith who confirmed he'd sold his business after 30 years of trading and that he'd also cancelled his agreement with a tertiary college that was for the first time ever going offer cuemaking as a specialist night class for pupils wishing to learn. Now, I don't know who else in the country, was prepared to give up time to teach cuemaking, but he gave up cuemaking and teaching as a result of comments on this forum and the UK cuemaking fraternity is a great deal poorer. If anyone knows of someone or a school that is teaching the art of traditionally handmaking cues, please could you let me know

[poolqjunkie]

http://www.sarisburygreen-snookercues.co.uk/

Interestingly, the address is the same as the old Keith Auld address; the lathe shown is exactly the one he said he was buying from the US for himself; the front page goes on and on about him being the master cue maker building cues for unnamed world champions and so on--exactly what he used to do on his old web site.

. If anyone knows of someone or a school that is teaching the art of traditionally handmaking cues, please could you let me know

Tea cup, you must be very excited because the above link also offers cue making lessons. And I am sure you would have no problem finding the place because it is located exactly where Keith Auld used to be (perhaps still is?).

ouch! saucer of milk for pq....

methinks the nameplate may have been fitted via catapult also.

sorry willytan, think you have more chance of getting a good price on ebay than here....

I also would love to find a school to learn how to fit a name plate with a catapult.

[Neil Taperell]

I bought a Keith Auld cue about 20years ago when i started playing and he was then based in Wimbledon.Think it cost about £150.00 and it was a really nice cue . I also had the oppurtunity to play with Tony Meo and he had a fantastic cue made by Keith.
Reasonably new to this Forum , what is the issue with cues made by him . Appears a few people are unhappy.Please enlighten me.

[poolqjunkie]

I bought a Keith Auld cue about 20years ago when i started playing and he was then based in Wimbledon.Think it cost about £150.00 and it was a really nice cue . I also had the oppurtunity to play with Tony Meo and he had a fantastic cue made by Keith.
Reasonably new to this Forum , what is the issue with cues made by him . Appears a few people are unhappy.Please enlighten me.

Perhaps you could speak with some of his customers to see if they have yet received the refund they were promised. I would hate to think the cue world is indeed poorer if they are still owed money after all these years.

[teacup]

yes you're right that was his workshop - the other address was his home - as for who he made cues for; as a young girl I used to go with my Dad to his shop and workshop in Wimbledon (where he used to teach Robert Osborne amongst others). My dad used to practice with both Tony Meo and Jimmy White at the Royal Surrey snooker club near our home in Morden and Keith used to look after both of their cues, my Dads and many others, this was back in the late 70's. I had no interest in snooker, but used to love looking at all the pictures on the walls showing Keith with film stars, famous politicians and famous sports stars (my Dad got me Damon Hill's autograph once, although at the time I was too young to know who he was. Then one day my Dad and I went to the shop and it was closed and he was gone . It was only later that my Dad told me he'd been on this site and learned Keith Auld was dead, which turned out to be unfounded. My Dad and I subsequently contacted him and he invited us to a meal at his restaurant on the South coast of England. Now, I'm not a snooker player, for my sins I'm an investigative accountant dealing mainly with fraud, but my Dad used to say that Keith Auld was a genius with all the stuff he made in silver, crystal and wood and that was and still is good enough for me. It's a shame you've never met him, who knows, you might like him!!

[ChatLag]

When I have a look at the pictures of the "workshop" with all the "tools" and the "lathe" the sentence above the picures has it's sense:

"Our process for making cues is second to none..."

I do not doubt that...

[Neil Taperell]

Teacup , i live in Sutton [used to live in Morden]. Who was your dad? Might know him.
Jimmy is back practising in the Royal Surrey , as is Marco Fu and i believe David Gray.

[Burwat Champ]

Robert Osborne says Keith did not teach him how to make cues.

Maybe he was once a good cue maker I dont know, what I do know is I saw a batch of cues he sent to Hong Kong and they were shocking.

And it is that quality of work that made people go off him a little along with the fact he felt it necessary to continually make snide comments about how other cue makers went about their business.

That said I hope he is doing well health wise as I believe he was having a tough time.