Meet The Cuemaker
Joshua Treadway By MICHELLE HUGHES Social Media Specialist Biggelbachs.com
The best part about making cues? “Any customer that puts their faith in me and the look on their face when you deliver a cue. They just light up!” Joshua Treadway of Treadway Custom Cues is our focal point in this month’s Meet the Cue Maker.
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oshua Treadway, 35 resides in St. Louis, Missouri with wife Sarah and 5-month-old daughter Emmalyn. When he was 15, he started playing pool at the local Cue and Cushion pool room. He quickly developed a natural curiosity about the equipment and how it all worked. He still remembers at age 18 when he saw the Saint Patrick’s Nightmare cue by Thomas Wayne and he knew he wanted to venture into the world of cue building. In 2007 he began working at the pool room and took up pool table
repair and cutting his own tips. While working there, he met legendary cue maker Jim Buss and they became friends. It wasn’t long before Josh was invited to apprentice under Jim with the intent of taking over the business once Jim retired. In 2010 Josh established “Treadway Custom Cues” and it was in 2014 when Buss retired leaving Josh the business and enabling him to become a fulltime cue maker. Since then, Josh has kept his shop in the inherited 1300 sq ft commercial space
about an hour away from his home in Overland, just outside St. Louis, Missouri. Treadway cues focus on playability and how they feel and sound. Being more forward balanced, Josh says they provide a better stroke. He uses a short splice technique for the majority of his cues. This is when the builder uses a single piece of wood and creates a V shaped groove for the veneers to lay over and then be turned down. A couple of his favorite builds are either a 6-point or 4-point cue with bridged veneers. Because he has so many creative ideas, Josh finds the hardest part of cue building is not
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Joshua Treadway
