Beauty Trumps Decay
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.
2 Sticks “ready to ship” This Week
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 […]
Hemingway Glued; Hunter’s Laptop
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 […]
Proud of BOB
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 […]
Five Utterly Gorgeous Images and One Longish Video
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 […]
End Times Pool Cue?!
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 […]
MISS SARAH PHIM!!
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.
Bruiser After 3 Turns, Update on Carrot Cake
Bruiser is my first Blue/Gray stick. The other will likely be called something recalling the War of Northern Aggression. The first video shows the first pass on the Taper Shaper. The second shows the stick after three passes, then gives a quick update on another stick build: Carrot Cake, a delightfully orange/cinnamon/white frosting stick. Also […]
Dizzy Christmas First Turn Makes Snow
Just beautiful. This is Dizzy Christmas getting its first turn.
