Other Cue Case Makers:
Nittany Leather - Brian Bonner is a
relatively new guy who already executes like an
old pro.
Whitten - Dan and Joe and family make
the Jaguar of cue cases. Easily the sleekest
cases on the market a Whitten is very upscale.
Jim Murnak
- Jim is more my style with his willingness to
try new things. Jim has a variety of models and
specializes in funky pockets.
Instroke - My former company and my
designs of course. Not much has changed since
1993. Now a "classic" design and perhaps the
most copied design in cue cases.
Sterling - A
wide assortment of inexpensive pool cue cases -
(made with my input)
GTF Cases
- GTF has revived the Fellini and Centennial
style of case. - Shameless Plug - We did these
and added some improvements to an already great
design. GTF cases are now the best in class for
this style of case.
Ron Thomas - Ron has revived the It's George
and Centenial styles. His cases are available
through Indy Q Shop.
On Q Case - Garth Bair is making fine cases
and specializes in the inlay designs.
Dennis Swift
- I have never met Dennis but have seen plenty
of his cases. Swift cases are well crafted,
traditionally tooled workhorses.
Chas Clements - Chas holds a
special place for me. He is a leather artist and
casemaker of the highest art.
We collaborated on a few cases while I had
Instroke and each one was beyond compare and
sold within one hour of being offered. If you
can get any work done by Chas you will have a
treasure for life.
Wholesale Billiard Supplies -
www.sterling-gaming.com
Retail
pool cues and billiard accessories -
www.cuesight.com
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Frequently Asked Questions
Will you copy this from (insert case maker name) here?
No.
We would certainly look at any other case and draw inspiration
from it. We would never do a 1 to 1 copy of another maker's work,
provided that work is original itself. What we try to do is capture the
essence of what a person wants and reinterpret it in our own style.
If you want a case from another case maker then we suggest that
you order from them.
Can you do a metal band on the bottom of my case like so-and-so does?
Of
course we can. However we won't. Because those metal bands
are thin brass or steel or whatever and completely useless. They
tend to get dented and tarnished and look horrible after months and
years of use. People think that they do some protecting but they
don't.
Here is a prime example of the metal band after some hard use.
Photo snippet from public forum message board on this topic.
You left off so-and-so on your list of case makers you recommend, don't you like him or his work?
There
are several reasons why someone's name isn't on my list. One is
that they requested not to be there. This is the reason that one
particularly famous case maker is not on the list despite the fact that
I highly recommend his cases. Another is if I really don't like
the work. This is the reason that some brands are not mentioned
as being recommended. These brands are ripoff copies which don't
even try to achieve any decent quality and as such are completely
without any value. Most individual casemakers don't fall into
this category. And lastly someone might be left off because I
don't have any real experience with them or their product and as such
don't feel entirely comfortable sending people their way. If your
favorite case maker is not listed and you think they should be send me
detailed pics of their work and why you think it's great as well as
link to their information and I will add them.
Why are you such a jerk by saying your cases are the best?
This
is another loaded question. From my standpoint the primary reason
to own a cue case is to protect your cue. With that in mind I
have made cue protection the primary focus of my cases. I have
studied what other case makers do and gone further than they have to
provide protection for the cues. That is why I say that JB Cases
provide the most protection among similar cases.
Most
people have no clue what a cue case does to a cue. They don't
know what is beyond the first few inches of the case's interior.
Because of this they are inclined to just stick their cue in
without any thought that something might be in there that isn't good
for the cue. I happen to know what is inside just about every
case on the market. So when someone says that so-and-so's case
brand is "the best" and they include protectiveness in that statement I
have to disagree. I have never, and I never will have any
discussion about whose case is prettier, classier, more elegant, and so
on. The way a case looks and the way it performs are completely
separate. I am a bit of jerk when I get on the soapbox about this
issue.
Sorry, as the great cue maker and artist Thomas Wayne says, "passion is a hard thing to conceal".
I
have come to understand however that people will often settle for "good
enough". Given a choice between obtaining a "status symbol" and
having a better product they will often compromise with themselves and
opt for the status symbol. I myself have done it a few times in
my life. Sometimes I could live with the choice because the "name
brand" product was good enough and brought me lots of attention and
status. Other times I wish that I had chosen the better
performing product. It's all personal choice. However, I
was never foolish enough to claim that the lower performing product was
actually the better performing one simply to justify my purchase of it.
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