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Originally Posted by brooklynjay  hi kenny,
i was wondering if you do anything else creative besides cuemaking. where do you draw your inspiration from? also what are your feelings behind cue design theft?
thanks
jay |
I am a collector of sorts, mainly cameras and watches. I used to turn bowls and spindles, but no time for it now. I love photograpy and used to be a portrait photographer, payed allot better than cue making. These days, I am a full time stay at home dad, cook, house cleaner, etc. I work around the twins, which will be 4 this month. Take my advice, have kids early! I will be past madatory retirement age when these 2 get out of high school. Anybody that says having kids keeps you young never had to deal with twins.
Design theft.......I am sure that out of the thousands of cues built over the years, I have used an inlay or design that was concieved by someone else. I dont go searching for cues to copy or designs to draw from. I use what I grew up with for most of my cues, simple with little or no inlays, let the wood speak for itself. I am sure that some of the designs that I have built for people have come from a desing someone else concieved, it would be nieve to think anything less. If I know it is a direct copy from another person, I will not build it for the customer. I do use some general shapes that I like with my own flair added of course.