ScottR wrote:
Richard,
Like others, I want to thank you for your time and contribution to the forum.
1. What do you consider to be the major milestones in "modern" cuemaking; say over the past 30 years or so?
2. Are there aspects of cuemaking that you want to improve upon?
3. Who are your top 5 currently active cue makers?
Scott
Well Scott, it would be hard to overlook CNC as the tool for modern cue making. The Showcase of American Cue Art helped set a new standard for cues at all levels. Thomas Wayne's $100,000.00 Celtic Prince certainly was a milestone. The formation of the ACA and the ICCS helped organize a couple of disparaging groups. And of course the day my rc3 logo was trademarked!! Just kidding, a millstone maybe but not a milestone.
I'd like to improve all aspects of my cue making. Everything just seems to be getting better and better so why not me?
Top 5 active cue makers? In no particular order Jerry, Jim an Dave, Bill, Richard, Ron, Bob, Tony, Bill, Mike, Thomas, Mickey, Ernie, Ed. Ariel, Dennis, John, Barry, Joel, and I can't quite remember the last one. Oh, yeah...me. And if I forgot any one I apologize. I don't think I or anyone else can come up with just 5. There are just too many good ones. Sorry.
rc3
P.S.
I was thinking last night and forgot to mention Bob Meucci. He certainly is a milestone, The Taj Mahal, landscapes on cues, exotic ring work. Back in the eighties he made a pretty big splash.
And I don't know if it was a milestone but the Palmer cue, I can't think of the name or model, the cue with the curvy veneers, certainly was a departure from the norm at the time.