It took four months to get my cue building machines. Then four more months to arrive at this place, after acquiring my main cue building machinery… I saw all this 8 months ago…. I’m finally organized. I have a spreadsheet. A word doc with instructions for my way of stick building, so I do each […]
I haven’t posted for a while, but I’ve been busy. I just completed a lot of shop upgrades, making it easy to both build sticks plus take video of the work, so I can (from sticks 25 onward) create a 60-minute build-documentary for each stick. I now have 6 cameras in the shop, with four […]
This is a shop update, not a political or religious manifesto. I know the title could go either way. Briefly, the video shows the results of a few projects I’ve been delaying so I could finish BOB; things I needed to accomplish to make my operations smoother. First, I installed small shelfs to hold my […]
A random discussion of the author Ernest Hemingway, while gluing the stick Hemingway. I mention the author I read for fun, plus a spattering of bonus ridicule around the topic of Hunter’s Laptop. Hunter’s Laptop is the pink stick in the background. Oh, and yes, I have at least six gray tank tops. I’m not […]
I redid the finish on BOB 8 times. The trouble came as a result of cutting the neck 5 hundredths too skinny. That meant having to build up width using finish, which is a laborious and at times frustrating process. 7 times frustrating, to be honest. I loved the curly maple ripples, the black cherry […]
I lost my other Fucky Fucky hat, the blue one, when I rolled my 4 wheeler a month and a fortnight back. I went back looking for it after a month passed, but I didn’t find it. So I made this one. Corduroy, since winter’s coming. Prettttttty Slick. Also, I’m thinking about getting a logo […]
I had a vision of a different way to do my epic stick-build video (that I’m planning). My plan was to learn how to build (with high-quality craftsmanship) artistically unique spalted/stabilized wood pool cues, then once I had the process and the shop capable of doing the work at the level I wanted, create a […]
A moment away from the shop, so I can meditate, find the moment, etc. Right.
Pale Horse is Stick 23. The first video is a look at the stick on the Taper Shaper after 4 passes. The second video looks at what I can only describe as spooky shit. I called the stick Pale Horse without knowing what patterns the wood would reveal, and the patterns will change before it’s […]
I’ve been feeling more and more the gentle tug at my heart. Sometimes it feels more like a chain that’s been grapple-hooked through my left ventricle, this insisting awareness that it matters more and more how we conduct our affairs, these days.
