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Section XI

Introduction

Dear Cuenatics:

This book on building cues, which I call From The Tree To The Cue , has been a gleam in my eye since 1991. This is as far as it has gotten since then, despite all the good intentions in the world. What you will be getting when you download it will be 32 pages of text and 74 pictures showing and describing all the machinery and tooling in my shop. Best of all it is free. For your education and your amusement.

What I show and discuss in those many images and pages of text is all the machinery and tooling that I use to build cues. There is nothing fancy in these pages, no CNC machinery, just old machines that I have found here and there and retro-fitted to make work for me. As to how to use this stuff, well that is separate matter. At one point I thought I might write a how to section to go with what is already about what. Over the years I have written another 150 pages to that end, but it is far from done, and quite frankly vague and incomprehensible so far. And even if I do ever decide to sit down and re-write these pages again I will still need to take hundreds of pictures to illustrate this text. Quite frankly I am not feeling up to this task at the moment and doubt that I will ever feel so inclined. So it looks like I am going to come out with a Third Edition of my Cue Building Videos on the how to aspects of cue building in lieu of finishing this aspect of the book. Stay tuned on this one.

So download what I have written so far and study my words and pictures diligently. If you do so you will at least save yourself much time and money when it comes time to buy your equipment. That alone should be enough to get you started. If you are interested in hands on cue building experience, a fast track rapid learning experience, it is possible to come to my shop and study with me for ten days or so, build a few cues with me, at least one of which you may go home with. E-mail me if you are interested in attending, what some call, Dieckman’s Cueniversity and I will send details.

Good luck, good life, good cue building.

Dieckman, Cue Builder

PS: You notice that I do not call myself a cuemaker? The Egyptians didn’t make the pyramids, THEY BUILT THEM. You make things to make money, you build things to last, for the future, like the pyramids. Thus I am a cue builder, not a cuemaker, at least in my feeble mind.

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last updated May 11, 2006