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Oh! How nice dear Art! I follow your "Cue" posts with much delight as an old lover of nice woods and custom made objects employing them. This interest comes from my long love for ...
Dec 03, 2023,20:01 PM
... custom knives and collecting them, usually with exotic wood handles though I confess I have no experience with pool or snooker I admire their cues beauty and craftmanship.
I also enjoy so much viewing your magic at the pool table.
Congrats for your new additions to your cue collection!! Enjoy them so much my dear friend and thank you for sharing both cues and videos!! Abel
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Time for a pool cue . . .
By: Dr No : December 2nd, 2023-19:23
. . . update. Latest addition: camphor burl handle with canary forearm and butt . . . . . . walnut pool shaft and purpleheart snooker shaft. Yes, I'm playing snooker as well as pool. The upcoming project is a dedicated snooker cue with a handle extension;...
Aesthetically, the most pleasing to my eye . . .
By: Dr No : December 3rd, 2023-01:24
. . . is the bois de rose cue. I'll take photos of it tomorrow for you. As for aptness for playing, I'm partial to walnut shafts. From here on out most cue builds will have walnut shafts. Laminated maple is best for breaking, though. Art
Very interesting, I never would’ve imagined…
By: ArmisT : December 3rd, 2023-03:09
such a degree of difference that you’d prefer the break of one versus the regular play of another. I guess when it comes down to the surgical precision that characterizes the game, the subtle differences between the surgeon’s/player’s tools holds a lot of...
Here are images of the pink ivory . . .
By: Dr No : December 3rd, 2023-23:37
. . . and bois de rose ( aka Madagascar rosewood) cue. Both wood types are African; bois de rose is especially rare. Art ...
The darker wood is . . .
By: Dr No : December 4th, 2023-00:06
. . . bois de rose , commonly referred to as Madagascar rosewood, but it is not a true rosewood ( Dalbergia ). To say that it's beautiful is to understate its appearance. There are five cues in my collection that I never play with because they're so gorge...
There are several American wood purveyors, including . . .
By: Dr No : December 4th, 2023-17:57
. . . Cook Woods and Bell Forest Products, that supply Bob with most of the timbers in his warehouse. How they get these exotic woods is a mystery to me. Much of Bob's stock was acquired decades ago; some types are almost impossible to find now, particula...
True craftsman …
By: Cpt Scarlet : December 3rd, 2023-10:38
Congratulations Art on your latest addition. Looks wonderful đź‘Ś
Bob's attention to detail . . .
By: Dr No : December 3rd, 2023-17:42
. . . and dedication to extracting every gram of performance attainable reminds me of Kari. A few more video clips of his cues . . . . . . in action. Art
I'd never heard of Danish five pin billiards . . .
By: Dr No : December 4th, 2023-00:02
. . . until just now. The level of cue ball control required to avoid pins is exceptionally high. I'm sure Christian will challenge me to a game after plying me with few shots of Stauning. As for wood used in shaft construction: almost every shaft ever pr...
Very very interesting indeed I didn’t realize…
By: Derreck : December 4th, 2023-06:18
until now that wood usage could differ the performance of cues. I didn’t know of Stauning either, when in Copenhagen I always drank acquavit as hard liqueur. Let me know if Christian and you Sir, decide to have your billiards game in summer in Copenhagen ...