First, let me start off by saying that I love pool! I have done a lot of things in my life, and none of them for very long.-except for pool. I began doing tips and ferrules for friends with a homemade lathe that was a drill strapped to a board. Soon I was repairing house cues for the local bars and doing tips for all the players...

The first cue I built was made with the drill motor. It is 67" long!! (Can you believe that???) The guy that I made this cue for is 6'8" and his 58" cue looked like it was a jump stick in his hands. I made the cue for him and gave it to him for free. I knew at that point that I wanted to be a cuemaker. I found a used Porper lathe and soon began making sneaky petes for 80 dollars a piece. A few months later, I bought the rest of my equipment from a cue maker that decided to quit. It happened real fast and here I was with a CNC mill and a lathe and no idea how it all worked! The cue maker left the country the day before I bought the equipment and I had no one to show me how it all worked. Luckily, I did have some manuals and with a lot of trial and error and after cutting apart a few cues, I was in business.

Almost all that I have learned has been from ground zero. I have since talked to a lot of cue makers and feel that the way I learned gave me an excellent understanding of how a pool cue should be put together. I search for the very best materials, and do top quality work. I also stand behind what I do fully, 100 percent. I do not send a cue out if I am not personally happy with how it turned out. Each cue I make is special, and each customer is treated with respect. Most of my customers have ordered more than one cue!!

I have learned a lot and met a lot of people by reading pool newsgroups. rec.sport.billiard and alt.sport.pool are a great resource for information. Sometimes they are quite entertaining as well! There are some real characters hanging around. I make mostly one of a kind cues, by special order only, that's why you will see no cue "Series" on my site, or in my repertoire. I occasionally have a finished cue for sale and I can make jump cues and "break cues" as part of a set.. Feel free to e-mail me with any questions or comments (sheldon at sheldoncue dot com).

~*|*~ Those in the know play with a LEBOW ~*|*~