Do any cue makers use English Ash any-more?

[trevs1]

Serious question as you're regarded as a decent cuemaker yourself, in all truth if you retired and thought you wanted a new cue but not one of your own which cuemaker out there would you choose to make you a cue?

None, I'd still make it myself, because I know what I would want and that I could produce it.

If you are trying to pin me down to a cue maker who I rate as being the best choice..... there isn't one.

Personally, I couldn't care less what I used as long as it fit my preferred specs and did what I asked when I used it.

[Byrom]

Are you copying my questions leo?

[trevs1]

Are you copying my questions leo?

It's a pointless question anyway because the medication required to get me to play snooker again has not been invented yet.

[Leo]

Are you copying my questions leo?

You will gather by now that I never tend to read previous replies so the answer to that is NO!!

[Byrom]

It's a pointless question anyway because the medication required to get me to play snooker again has not been invented yet.

medication - why injury - illness - or just had enough of the game mentally?

You too busy anyway - the Balabuska of the UK - if I where you I would take a leaf out of history every now and again make yourself some extra special cue put them all to one side as a retirement fund - His cues from a certain era sell for over 40k you know.

You missing out in the future if you don't do this.

[trevs1]

The meds thing refers to my lack of interest in playing any more. I have not owned a cue for maybe eight years or so.

[Leo]

The meds thing refers to my lack of interest in playing any more. I have not owned a cue for maybe eight years or so.

Maybe you were the wrong person to ask which cuemaker you would choose then.

[Byrom]

The meds thing refers to my lack of interest in playing any more. I have not owned a cue for maybe eight years or so.

You used to play and you make hundreds of cues for people and have not owned your own cue for eight years - and I think I am complicated.

I suppose if you work in a cake shop you get sick of looking at them?

Shame - for me a man needs an escape from the women in his life - I have the snooker club - you have your cue making shed.

I don't get how you are not tempted to play though after making a great cue - are you not curious to try a few out? I mean you have knocked out a few nice cues in your time and I believe you used to play to a decent standard so this is curious - I don't think I would not sleep at night if I did not try out a few on the table before sending them on.

[vmax4steve]

Here are the two boards that I just bought off ebay. The one on the right has a dead straight close grain all the way through it, the one on the left has a wavy grain that will produce lots of chevrons. What's best is up to the customer I suppose, but to my mind the close straight grain ash is best for snooker cue shafts as I have an idea that the resonance one feels through the wood doesn't dissipate off through the grain that comes to the surface in the form of a chevron, but travels all the way to the joint at the 3/4 mark or the weight placed at that point on a one piece.

That could be a fallacy but it seems righht to me so it's what I go by when selecting timber for cues.

I should get three shafts from each board, how they react to cutting and planing is unknown and it's entirely possible that none will stay straight or all three will. £40 for the two, £150 for each cue when finished so that's a great profit margin until you take into account the labour involved of about fifty hours for each cue. That's not a very good hourly rate when you think about it.

A ready made Thai blank only needing a hardwood splice or two with a named badge going for £800 and you can see the attraction to those for whom money is their god.

[bigandyg]

You used to play and you make hundreds of cues for people and have not owned your own cue for eight years - and I think I am complicated.

I suppose if you work in a cake shop you get sick of looking at them?

Shame - for me a man needs an escape from the women in his life - I have the snooker club - you have your cue making shed.

I don't get how you are not tempted to play though after making a great cue - are you not curious to try a few out? I mean you have knocked out a few nice cues in your time and I believe you used to play to a decent standard so this is curious - I don't think I would not sleep at night if I did not try out a few on the table before sending them on.

I never had my own cue, as soon as I made one someone saw it and bought it, I often borrowed a cue when I played pool.

[bigandyg]

Hope they turn out well for you, I very much favour the tight grained one on the right but you never know.

[Byrom]

I never had my own cue, as soon as I made one someone saw it and bought it, I often borrowed a cue when I played pool.

interesting - John Parris, Trevor White an Big Andy don't own a cue - I have a mate who is an electrician and in his house the bulbs and switches don't work - good job none of you work in a sex shop I suppose

[Leo]

Did you try your cues out Andy before you let them go?

[vmax4steve]

interesting - John Parris, Trevor White an Big Andy don't own a cue - I have a mate who is an electrician and in his house the bulbs and switches don't work - good job none of you work in a sex shop I suppose

Nobody likes to take their work home, if your partner was a porn star I doubt you'd get any after she's had a hard day, pun intended btw.

[Byrom]

Nobody likes to take their work home, if your partner was a porn star I doubt you'd get any after she's had a hard day, pun intended btw.

I'd wake her up in the morning and send her on her way

Interesting though - once asked the guy in KFC if he got freebies and he said he works around it all day cant stand the stuff but he did like it before he worked there, maybe to cure a cue or snooker playing fetish you need to buy a snooker club or go into making cues.