This is the stick that started me on the path to cue building. One thing I’ve learned and probably most cue builders would agree, it’s a path, not a destination. We’re always growing. Moving forward through new terrain. Developing and discarding processes. I knew when I built Ole Sassy Frassy that it would warp. The […]
This video shows Stick 24, Miss Sarah Phim, a stick made of spalted, (rotten) beech. The grain patterns are from the natural figuring in the wood as well as lines left by various strains of fungus, as they consumed the nutrients within. “Stabilization” uses resin to replace what decay removed from the wood, leaving it […]
I sledgehammer a block of treated wood, perform last rites for a mouse, burn my oven, and make pool sticks so pretty you’ll watch like the screen is dripping eyeball crack.
After the solemn ceremony vouchsafed for future generations in the video below, I returned Jovi to her flats and at the door insisted, “After you, Lady Jovi.” She peered at me through eyes set under deep brows, furrowed with canine intelligence gleaned from eons of her forebears standing beside their best friends. “This is your […]
Good thing for that period up there in the title, aye? Anyhow. I was screwing around shaving. My wife said if I had white hair I’d be a dead ringer — or rather the live ringer of the dead author — Mark Twain — a scribbler I set at the very throne of all that […]
