Taking the plunge

[Deepscrew]

James Cahill's cue is the nicest example of a maple one piece i have ever seen. Not sure what wood the butt is but its not ebony. Think its a wooldridge.

[cazmac1]

Weird how 1 piece cues seem to be making a resurgance, seeing much more of them doing the rounds lately.

BTW caz what design did you end up going for? I can only recall snakewood being mentioned.

To be honest if my club hadn't closed down I would have stuck with the one piece, but as I now have to travel some distance with the cue on the bike. I didn't really have a choice.
The design is quite simple snakewood with a blue veneer

[cazmac1]

Did JP give you a reason why 1pc cues take 3 times as long? I can't see other cue makers struggling to find the requisite ash or maple for 1pc cues as the majority of them seem to make 1pc cues today.

Lets be honest a 3/4 cue should need the same property of ash as a 1pc, I was under the impression that all ash comes in standard lengths of board and is then cut to the required lengths. The reality is a 1pc shouldn't take any longer than 3/4, only when difference is a 3/4 cue can be worked on by more than 1 person at a time, 1 doing the shaft, the other making the butt section, still shouldn't be 3 times longer though! Very very confused.

I'm not sure how John selects his shafts, but I can only assume he is ultra fussy, as you would think that the end part of the shaft is covered by the butt splicing any way.
The one piece shaft runs from tip to butt.
The 3/4 with a joint at 12 inch's runs from tip to butt.
The 3/4 with a joint at 16 inch's stops above the joint.

[cueman]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/John-Parri...#ht_253wt_1399

I see cazmac had his cue and already listed it for sale! All this effort for a cue and he's hardly used it. Guess he is another that bought a cue with the sole intention to make a profit from it judging from the asking price!

[jrc750]

Anyone who pays that much for a cue needs to go see a head doctor

[luke-h]

Anyone who pays that much for a cue needs to go see a head doctor

100pc. i really can't stand people buying who have no intention on keeping just to make an outrageous profit, these are the people to blame for such a high waiting time....eughhh

[itsnoteasy]

Agree with that, nice looking cue though.

[cueman]

I have finally after years of experimenting with cue's finally feel I'm ready to commit to buying an John Parris Ultimate.
So as off today I'm going to place my order. Of course if it don't work out the cue's have great resell value. I will update this thread with feed back from John.

Well he pretty much spelled it out straight away!

[jb134]

Did JP give you a reason why 1pc cues take 3 times as long? I can't see other cue makers struggling to find the requisite ash or maple for 1pc cues as the majority of them seem to make 1pc cues today.

Lets be honest a 3/4 cue should need the same property of ash as a 1pc, I was under the impression that all ash comes in standard lengths of board and is then cut to the required lengths. The reality is a 1pc shouldn't take any longer than 3/4, only when difference is a 3/4 cue can be worked on by more than 1 person at a time, 1 doing the shaft, the other making the butt section, still shouldn't be 3 times longer though! Very very confused.

That's the impression you're supposed to be under.

[jb134]

Agree with that, nice looking cue though.

Just shows, it's all about opinions. I'd say nice shaft, horrible design.

[billabong]

Just shows, it's all about opinions. I'd say nice shaft, horrible design.

JB ! you made it home then ?

[jb134]

JB ! you made it home then ?

Just barely!

[narl]

Don't like the design at all, thought he was going for a single face splice of snakewood, not 4 of what appears to be olivewood, he's listed it as rosewood but it looks far too light to be rosewood unless its the flash making it brighter.

Id be amazed if by now he's not had an offer from our favourite Russian delboy spinning him a tale about how its only worth £700.

[cueman]

personally I think the spec is pretty crap as well for a 3/4 jointed cue. 17oz is way too light for a cue like this, the shaft must be very light as most of the natural weight will come from the solid butt. I reckon he is talking out of his backside if he thinks this plays well, he simply wouldn't sell it so soon after having it, especially waiting over 18 months for it.

[itsnoteasy]

Just shows, it's all about opinions. I'd say nice shaft, horrible design.

Looked again, and your right JB I think the last three pics swayed my judgement .