In 1968 I walked into small billiard

supply in Royal Oak, Michigan and never left. It was a new small business. Al and Josie Saffron were the owners and the thought of a business dedicated to pool, billiards and snooker was just fascinating to me. A summer part time job turned full time and eventually into a career. My life as a billiard mechanic was also helping me get through college studying art. This is the time of my life that I leaned the basics of my future career, the rudiments of cue making with a foundation in art.

In 1977 I made a move to California to join a family business and started to raise my family. But pool was in my blood and I started recovering and repairing pool tables where I played in the area. This small business fed itself for many years and where there were pool tables there were pool cues that also needed repair.

By 1985 a small cue business was starting to grow. I had made my very first cues about 10 years earlier but now it was becoming more serious and it seemed that everything I’d done in my life up until now was helping form this new business. It was true serendipity.

The American Cuemakers Association was formed in 1992. I became a member in 1993 and served on the board of directors for several years. The Showcase of American Cue Art was held at the Biltmore Hotel in Las Angeles in 1995. I was an original participant. I have also been included in every Gallery of American Cue Art show held in the past. I was also instrumental in organizing the first cue show at the National Arts club in New York City in 1999.  The Showcase and Gallery shows lead to the creation of the Academy of American Cue Art of which I am a founding member along with Thomas Wayne, Jerry McWorter, Jim Staddum and Richard Black. In 2002 the International Cue Collectors Show (ICCS) was created by Bill Stroud  of Joss West. I have participated in all of their events to date.

rc3 cues have appeared in all of the major collections commissioned by ICCS members and this can all be capped off by being invited into the collection of cues in the Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution.