Robert Osborne

[cueman]

Yeah amazing, been on less than 12 hours and all gone, someone has a lot of money, RO probably made about £12k today from those, nice money if you can get it.

[Deepscrew]

Blimey...i can see why he wouldnt bother dealing with many UK customers fiddling with specs and pestering with emails when there is clearly no need.....fair play.

[narl]

Wonder how many months of work that was sold out in a few hours?

[Neil Taperell]

Yeah amazing, been on less than 12 hours and all gone, someone has a lot of money, RO probably made about £12k today from those, nice money if you can get it.

Sounds Good £12k , but if you see his workshop . He has lots of timber in stock and i was surprised at the cost of it !

[cueman]

Wonder how many months of work that was sold out in a few hours?

I'm not so sure that its months, probably about 5-6 weeks. Like all cue makers I'm sure RO goes through periods of working on shafts for about 2-3 weeks, then back to splicing adding joints, finishing etc. A cue really only takes a couple of weeks to complete and most do them in batches, hence why when Trevor finishes a cue for someone there are usually two or three other members getting theirs at the same time. Mike turns around his cue orders pretty quickly, did you see all those black spin ferrules the other week, all finished cues at the same time, think it was about a dozen or so.

[narl]

I'm not so sure that its months, probably about 5-6 weeks. Like all cue makers I'm sure RO goes through periods of working on shafts for about 2-3 weeks, then back to splicing adding joints, finishing etc. A cue really only takes a couple of weeks to complete and most do them in batches, hence why when Trevor finishes a cue for someone there are usually two or three other members getting theirs at the same time. Mike turns around his cue orders pretty quickly, did you see all those black spin ferrules the other week, all finished cues at the same time, think it was about a dozen or so.

Never really thought about it that way, id be interested in seeing if he makes any black plates how those take to shift, probably a quarter the time the green plates did. Black plates will probably be in the region of £800+ at the very least.

[Neil Taperell]

3months to make 40 cues i think he told me . I suppose everyone works at different speeds .

[superman32]

The price of Green aiming to Parris ultimate
So a plain ebony ultimate will cost you 530+SD joint which is around 20=550
I see the basic green plate is around that price.

But the VAT is too much. I am not from England so i don't know how many percent that is? may be 20 percent?
That is a lot.

[narl]

Yeah uk is 20% currently. Very pricey cues to say the least.

[Neil Taperell]

Plain black Parris Ultimate is £636 according to his cue builder i think

[raymo147]

If Robert could make a thousand cues tomorrow they would sell in no time!
He simply can't meet the demand but at least you know he is making the cue unlike parris!
His quality of craftsmanship is second to none and has poured his heart and soul into it all!
So in my view he deserves every bit of credit for making a success of himself and his business!
Same as parris,mike and trev also!

[Neil Taperell]

Well said Raymond .
I took a cue to him to have a minor bit of work done and i could tell by the look on his face thst he really did not want to do it , as he felt the cue was perfect .

Then i realised how passionate he is about cue making and a very top craftsman .

[raymo147]

Yes he sure is! He could probably have trained up more cue makers
to turnover loads more cues but he's simply content with what he's doing and worked for!
And his quality control is in his own hands!
His workshops a cue makers dream and has done it all off his own back!
The amount of customers over the world wanting his cues proves how class his cues are!
All cue makers on the forum work and run there business in there own way to suit them!
Simple!

[superman32]

Plain black Parris Ultimate is £636 according to his cue builder i think

they start at 530. I just checked

[Neil Taperell]

they start at 530. I just checked

Just been on Cue Builder ........uk price £636

Is it a different price depending on Country ????