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by Bilal Assaad on Jan 23, 2025
Here's a showing of well over 2,500 tapered shafts ready to go. Whether you need 1 or 1,000 shafts in any shape - Cue Components can ship yesterday!
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by Bilal Assaad on Jan 23, 2025
Here's some huge genuine elephant ivory slabs cut from a pristine tusk. These are slightly over 12" long and over 5/8" thick! These will be used for ivory points in cues and perhaps some pen blanks.
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by Bilal Assaad on Jan 23, 2025
Here's a shot of shaft wood hanging in various stages. That's a lot of shafts!
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by Bilal Assaad on Jan 23, 2025
Here is a shot of a section of our shop showing full splice blanks all made up and ready to go. We always have several hundred on hand.
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by Bilal Assaad on Jan 23, 2025
Here are about three to four thousand tapered hard maple shafts in various stages all ready to go. We can supply shafts in just about any stage and in just about any quantity. When it comes to quality shaft wood, we have the best and we have the most. Cue Components - your shaft wood source.
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by Bilal Assaad on Jan 23, 2025
The large photo is the most recent one of our back room which shows hundreds of cored fronts all ready to go. Without question, you are probably looking at the largest inventory of cored fronts of any cue manufacturer or supplier. We can supply any just about any species in almost any quantity for immediate delivery.The inset photo shows another area of our shop with more cored fronts all ready to go!
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by Bilal Assaad on Jan 23, 2025
Well, here is a picture of Russ with a few of his cored fronts. One day, we told Russ to core some fronts just to give him something to do. He got lost and we didn't hear a peep or see him for about 4 days. Friday rolled around and the results are shown here. He cored about 350 fronts! You can see outrageous curly, bocote, tulipwood, incredibly figured bubinga and goncalo all hanging (curing). There's also about 150 or so ebony laying around somewhere. They're all cored, tapered and dipped in Resolute. It was a very productive week. And, who said good help is hard to find. :-)
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by Bilal Assaad on Jan 23, 2025
From time-to-time we burn off excess woods. In this pile we have some Pink Ivory, Ironwood and a little Snakewood. We generate so much scrap that we'd need a separate building just to house all the off-cuts and scrap. We just cannot save it all. If you are ever fortunate enough to stop by and you hit us on a good day, we may load you up.Of course we cut effectively for squares, slabs and various other component parts but there's always waste. Much of what you see here is beyond use due to cracks or just being too narrow or any number of other reasons.
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by Bilal Assaad on Jan 23, 2025
Here's a small sample of some wood we cut today. Here you'll see Olivewood, Pink or Red Ivory, Desert Ironwood and Snakewood squares which range from 1.5" to 3" square by all sorts of lengths. These are all highly figured. The Pink Ivory is curly! These are all keepers.
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by Bilal Assaad on Jan 23, 2025
These cuttings are a small batch of others that have been sitting at our shop for about 8 years but never made it to the bandsaw until now. These will yield a bunch of dynamite turning squares. We don't advertise Ironwood as it's very expensive and we just don't get all that much to offer out. However, if you need some, feel free to email us for a quote. All squares are 1.5" to 3" square and 13" to 40" in length. We have them in all sizes. However, be prepared as they are not cheap. Just as a example: 1.5" square X 18" will run $50 to $250.
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by Bilal Assaad on Jan 23, 2025
Here are a couple of more shots of the shops main entrance. You can see that we're bulging with inventory. That's a small shipment of Bloodwood in the front of the entrance along with pallets holding thousands of shaft wood squares. Our volume buying power insures the best prices and highest quality.
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by Bilal Assaad on Jan 23, 2025
Here's about 10,000 shafts on pallets waiting to be processed. Granted we do sell a ton of shaft wood but there is no such thing as having too many shafts. We had an exceptional run of quality wood this past winter (2005-06) and as such we bought up a storm. We're happy with our purchase and have fabulous wood for our clients and our own use. We probably purchased at least 15,000 shafts this past winter.
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by Bilal Assaad on Jan 23, 2025
Here's about 600 or so shafts waiting to be cut and then hung. These are all .750 cones which will be taken to a tapered profile on the next pass. We randomly checked about a dozen and they're all running true. It's nice to have premium shaft wood!
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by Bilal Assaad on Jan 23, 2025
You can't sell from an empty cart nor can you make cues with wood purchased today. You need inventory, perhaps not quite this much but you need inventory to draw from. You need a flow of wood in your pipeline so that you can draw from it as needed.
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by Bilal Assaad on Jan 23, 2025
It's nice to know that everything has a place and everthing is in its place. Organization is a key to success. Put the stuff where it belongs and that alone will save you time from looking for things you should not be looking for.
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by Bilal Assaad on Jan 23, 2025
Here's a partial shot of our back room where we keep all our dirty machines. All the dust is confined. We have dust ports and sometimes multiple ports to each machine as well as two air filters to help keep the place manageable. You can see some of our 6" metal dust runs here with 4" metal down tubing to the various machines.
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by Bilal Assaad on Jan 23, 2025
This is our Craftsman tool cabinet where we keep all our essentials and not so essentials. They make a reall nice cabinet with plenty of storage. Their tools are pretty good too.
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by Bilal Assaad on Jan 23, 2025
Essential to every shop is powerful sounds to drown out the noise. With this system we accomplish that. 1,000 watts of power to Cerwin Vega speakers. It's earth shattering, wall rocking and just plain loud. We know how to rock and roll. :-)
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by Bilal Assaad on Jan 23, 2025
And here is another area showing some more shafts and various exotics hanging peacefully for their eventual use.
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by Bilal Assaad on Jan 23, 2025
Here is a section of four to five hunderd Cocobolo and Brazilian Rosewood aging peacefully for their eventual use.