Yellow, orange, copper daybreak
Ron’s Cue… Going for a sunrise effect with orange and copper side by side, surrounded by yellow. Last image shows the rings fairly close…
Ron’s Cue… Going for a sunrise effect with orange and copper side by side, surrounded by yellow. Last image shows the rings fairly close…
Okay, truth is I only added the gold phenolic (which I bought thinking it was brown, since they named it brown, but like better gold) because ya never know… I like the gold collars with the white rings and the black rings/copper rings best of all the mockups. Top middle. It really grabs the eye, […]
For this custom build, I made 3 sets of rings to bookend the maple burl handle section, each going with a different color of end collar, white, black, and brown. The rings are within a few hundredths of their final size and the seagull pockets are filled with epoxy. Each ring has the same pattern […]
(The image above shows the shafts below when under black light. Notice the black locust glows…. Also, some time during this read you’ll want to see the table at the end. The terms are defined shortly before the table.) Folks are generally concerned with both the look of the shaft and the play. I’ll address […]
I’m just going to write some things that have been on my mind. Why on earth would a nobody cue builder talk about anything other than cues? Because you’re a nobody too. You have agency and a spark of the divine, yet we’re all nobodies and puerile conversations are being shoved down our throats so […]
Learning my CNC machine has not been as vexing as anticipated, but has easily given me all the vexation I need. Aristotle famously said A = A. Sometimes everything is perfect on one side of the equation so one expects perfection on the other. That rarely happens with a newbie on a CNC. I finally […]
IN THE POOL COMMUNITY… Chris DjKaoss Payne wrote to me a month or two back, and I was busy enough I only took a second to decide I didn’t have enough time to actually think about what he wrote. You know sometimes you make a mental provisional decision, a snap decision you’re trying on for […]
I present (first image below) the rough draft, which uses a blackish handle section made of beech, like the rest of the cue. The reason I like it is that because it is beech, it has the same movement going on. It’s like a black and white version of the rest of the cue. The […]
Clayton Lindemuth’s works have been smashingly reviewed by Publishers Weekly (starred review and best of the week), Indie Next List, Kirkus, BlueInk Review, Foreword Reviews, Seattle Book Review, San Francisco Book Review, Manhattan Book Review, Indie Reader, Reader Views, Spinetingler Magazine, Hardboiled Wonderland, various independent best of the year mentions, (Spinetingler and DoSomeDamage, among others). Clayton’s novels Cold Quiet Country and My Brother’s Destroyer have been published in France by Le Seuil, and have been charmingly reviewed by Le Monde, La Croix, Le Figaro.