Famous Billiard cuemaker series – Jerry Patrick McWorter, The multi-talented “Magician” McWorter Cues

Jerry Patrick McWorter was born in Glendale, California. His father owns a construction company, while his mother helped in the business and took care of the household with Jerry Patrick McWorter and two of his sisters. When Jerry Patrick McWorter was thirteen, Jerry was being baby-sitted by a mormon priest, he used a deck of magic cards and did a little performance in front of Jerry, to the astonishment of the little Jerry, he asked,”How did you do that?” The mormon priest answered,”Make a guess!” And Jerry Patrick McWorter always got it right most of the time, he even explained it to the mormon priest on how he did it. Since then, magic became Jerry's new found interest, not long after, he found the largest magic shop in town and relentlessly pursue a higher level of difficulty everytime. He came to know the 19 years old Eric Nolan, a mgic shop manager and magician. Seeing that Jerry's passion for magic is almost tangible, he showed him the best book about magic and even introduce a few of his friends who are also professional magicians.

Jerry Patrick McWorter spent 8 to 10 hours everyday practicing magic, at the age of 15, he performed in a magician restaurant making $100 every night. Soon he was performing in a celebrity hollywood restaurant Magic Castle. In 1981, the 16 year old Jerry won the best supporting magician title at a competition.

In 1982, when Jerry was 17, a colleague of his, a magician and also a barber, team up with a billiards champ, Dean Dill; they use to fix up a match with Jerry so that they can make some money out of him. As Jerry is a talented and fast leaner, it doesn't take him very long for him to win back his money, as he learn from his mistakes and through observation of top players like Ismael “Morro” Paez, Ernesto Dominguez and Keith Mcready.

Although Jerry Patrick McWorter has become a professional magician at that time, but his interest for billiards grew tremendously. Back in high school, Jerry made himself the first McWorter billiard cue stick with a cue case, though it is a simple piece of billiard cue stick, this is a start to a promising future. Soon, he got in touch with a cuemaker Santa Barbara and bought a beautiful Robinson billiard cue stick from him.

Between 1982 and 1983, armed with the Robinson billiard cue stick , Jerry went to compete in L.A.. After that, he left L.A. And went to do missions with the mormon priest for 2 years. In 1985 he went back to his home town and married his high school sweetheart and worked in his father's construction company, at that time, he seldom play billiards. In 1987, his son Christopher McWorter was born, because his marriage is always not a bed of roses, finally he divorced. Jerry Patrick McWorter also needs to get a new job as the construction economy is doing very badly.

Maybe he should make professional billiard cue stick for a living while waiting for the construction economy to pick up, he thought. In the beginning, Jerry Patrick McWorter thought of just designing the billiard cue stick and let John Robinson produce them, but John told Jerry Patrick McWorter that the cuemaking business is a waste of time because it involves a long time just to produce a billiard cue stick, and it can't be compared to the construction industry. But Jerry thought that his idea is workable and he went ahead with his plans.

In 1988, Jerry Patrick McWorter started visiting machinery shops, looking for the right machine and improve his knowledge of making billiard cue stick by doing research and studying for 70 to 80 hours a week. Soon his money were all used up, the rent is up, he is unable to pay his son's school fees and even his livelihood is greatly affected. After 2 months, Jerry finally sold his first billiard cue stick for $200.

Don Lee, a billiard cue stick supplier and also a former cuemaker, bought some materials to let Jerry Patrick McWorter produce some shafts. And Jerry used to frequent his shop to borrow his lathe machine and also ask him on questions of cuemaking. At the same time, famous cuemaker Ernie Gutierrez (Gina Cue) came back into the scene after stopped cuemaking for 15 years. Jerry Patrick McWorter knew that Ernie used to but lathe parts and went to him to get some materials, and Ernie started to take notice of him, soon he is encouraging Jerry and even gave him tips on billiard cuemaking.

Jerry Patrick McWorter admitted that his initial batches of billiard cue stick are performance billiard cues but lacks the aesthetics of other famous billiard cue stick. Since the day he decided to join the cuemaking industry, he has never thought of a logo, all he does is a signature on his billiard cue stick. Feedbacks from his customers are also quite encouraging as they claim that Jerry's billiard cue stick are high performance but lacks beauty, having said that, the players don't even know that the billiard cue stick were made by Jerry Patrick McWorter. After listening to all the feedbacks, Jerry Patrick McWorter decided to improve his billiard cue's quality, his billiard cue stick have to be high performance and Jerry started to introduce more intricate designs on his billiard cue stick.

Very soon Jerry's order from customers starts to flow in when his billiard cues started to improve and designs are getting intricate. Jerry started to partner up with Joe Salazar from AAA Billiards Supply to sell his billiard cues. At the same time, Jerry took part in competitions to create awareness and sell his billiard cues.

After 2 years, Jerry remembered that his friend John Robinson was right in saying that making performance billiard cue stick without the intricate beautiful designs can never sell well, you can only make a small living out of it. This made him to set a new benchmark for himself by producing better billiard cue stick and he ordered newer and better billiard cuemaking machines. Already a recorgnised performance billiard cuemaker, with added designs to his 6 point cues, it played into his hands very well.

Between 1992 to 1994 is Jerry's most important days of his competition and billiard cuemaking life. McWorter cues has already been famed aound America and with the support from professional players, it seems like everyone was carrying a McWorter cue.

At the same time, Jerry came to know a 21 year old Japanese student Yoshi Horigome, besides buying himself a billiard cue stick from him, he also hepled Jerry Patrick McWorter to sell his billiard cue stick in Japan. With the help and hard work from Yoshi, Jerry finally open his foreign market in Japan, and his orders increased tremendously.

In 1993, through his hardships in producing those beautiful billiard cue stick, Jerry Patrick McWorter was listed on the American Cue Makers Association. Without accepting his current status, Jerry Patrick McWorter continue to set himself high standards in his billiard cue stick. Jerry Patrick McWorter keeps giving praises to a famous billiard cuemaker on Alaska Thomas Wayne, very soon they got in touched and became good friends. Thomas introduced Jerry Patrick McWorter his friends and also gave him knowledge of the latest technology. In 1994, Jerry Patrick McWorter finally have his own logo embeded in his billiard cue stick.

In 1995 December, Jerry Patrick McWorter and Thomas teamed up with a famous photographer Chuck Montique, to launch Showcase of American Cue Art. Jerry's billiard cues stick was the main attraction, among were top players and makers from around the world. The response was over-whelming, it attracted enthusiasts and players from all over the world, and they decided to organise the second one in New York.

At that time, Jerry Patrick McWorter and Jan (his wife) gave birth to Ryan, his new born son. They moved to Ventura, Jan used to take part in WPBA competitions. Because of Jan's birth, Jerry started to move away from his cuemaking passion, soon he was drawn to music. His passion in music grew when he was mesmerized by a fast number in Ventura. Because Jerry Patrick McWorter is a fast learner, he started playing drums, and soon took part in competitions and staged performance regularly. In 1999, the artistic side of him side tracked him to motion picture industry along with his sister Kathy.

Presently, Jerry's billiard cue stick are high contrast in colors and modern, he only does one-of-a-kind billiard cue stick, in the future he will only devote himself into artistic billiard cue stick.

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