5 x macassar customised cues

[crispian jones]

im not in the same place as i was last year jrc so i cant see me getting carried away, just a shame really that i am the only guy who has the balls to say what everyone else wouldnt

anyway each to there own, i will do my thing and what others do is there business, nothing for me to lose sleep over !

[Neil Taperell]

Spot on Crispian .......transparency is all we want and as Stevie says , no one is forcing you to buy the cue . At least we know what we are paying for .

[ADR147]

yawn! - i wish it were possible to buy them for £80 and add a badge sadly most of us have to pay vat & import duty etc and it takes a fair bit of time and skill to make them into a cue.

[coomsey76]

Spot on Crispian .......transparency is all we want and as Stevie says , no one is forcing you to buy the cue . At least we know what we are paying for .

Amen...... Your exactly right bud!!

Cracking work Crispian!!

[perpetualboredom]

yawn! - i wish it were possible to buy them for £80 and add a badge sadly most of us have to pay vat & import duty etc and it takes a fair bit of time and skill to make them into a cue.

It is definitely possible to import finished hand spliced cues at that price - unrelated to these cues but I heard it from a horses mouth so to speak.
If people are paying more than this, that's fine - likewise if people don't want the public to know their costs fine.
But to say you can't get them at that price as in intimating someone is talking out of their behind, is plain wrong.

[crispian jones]

i started using these cues as i was finding it difficult to source dry ebony, and after giving up my job and spending close to £15,000 on tools and my workshop set up, i found them fantastic quality cues that can be offered at sensible prices ! i wanted to add them to my website but have decided against that simply because i can sense a lot of mixed opinion on the pricing, my initial thought was to try compeeting with the gbl cues, but now i have decided that i will only buy in small batches from time to time to cater for freinds and local pool players as most guys i know are not going to spend £300+ on a cue !
i have never kept it a secret what i pay for my cues, i will tell any customer who asks, but as i run a business i also intend on making a profit (as any business does) !!!
these cues have always been unfinished blanks that i work on, this work includes straigtening them if needed, re ferruling each and every cue, bedding in the shafts to suit the ferrule size orderd, adding or removing weight to them, extending them at the butt if needed, and altering the taper to the shafts to within 0.1mm every 4" as reqested by many customers, changing butt diamiters and balance points where possible !

on top of this labour you can add the cost of the badges, base joints, tubes to post off in, upkeep of tools, electricity, walking to the post office, the 6 different items that i use on the finish alone, the sandpaper, super glue, filters for my hoover, filters for my extraction, batteries for numouros tools and face masks, the packs of stanley blades, selotape, printer ink, printer paper, late nights booking couriers, followed by waiting around all day quietly tring not to miss the couriers the next day when they come !

90% of cues sold are payed for with paypal so fees are lost, and the postage is also included as stated in the thread !

i can confirm that the £80 is pretty close to what i pay for these cues, but i can assure you that there is not even £100 profit made on these cues once you work out the total costs incured !

Anyway my next thread will be started this coming week where i will post pictures of my work, something that i will ask my lad to do for me as i dont want to spend to many evenings on here

[ADR147]

It is definitely possible to import finished hand spliced cues at that price - unrelated to these cues but I heard it from a horses mouth so to speak.
If people are paying more than this, that's fine - likewise if people don't want the public to know their costs fine.
But to say you can't get them at that price as in intimating someone is talking out of their behind, is plain wrong.

not at the quality crispian is using you can't. i can get cues for £40 in thailand but they are not the same thing.

[Andy Travis]

Obviously you've only fitted a customised badge on these cues without any work, unless your 5 friends ordered them to their specs then changed their minds

[walkerpool]

I think we need a cue off i will buy the winning cue for £500

[Andy Travis]

Do you mean a Travis/Jones cue competition

[walkerpool]

Do you mean a Travis/Jones cue competition

Yes i want a new cue lets see who can make the best cue

[walkerpool]

Ru on for it Andy

[Andy Travis]

It would'nt work. i dont know where to import them from

[walkerpool]

Lmfao but ru up for it my offer is real.

[Andy Travis]

If you want a 100% handmade cue contact me on my email address below