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Michael Wagner, cuemaker and owner of RAVEN Custom Cues, has varied interests and aptitudes. From an early age he immersed himself in the things that interested him. He was always naturally athletic. Through high school he excelled in baseball, football, track and wrestling. His other interests included art, drama, chess, swimming and of course one of his first loves, playing pool. In the summers he worked for a local shoe store, the local newspaper and when he was 16 he began to work at a local bowling alley that had the largest poolroom in town. That is when his pool playing really got its biggest boost. In college he studied Philosophy, Theology and Psychology at Mercer University (Macon, Georgia) and the University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia). To support himself he worked at local hospitals first as an attendant on medical and surgical floors as well as the intensive care unit. Later he worked as a technician in Psychiatric units. It was while he was in college in Athens, Georgia, that he started playing golf he learned to scuba dive. He enjoyed golf but was fascinated with scuba diving. In typical fashion he read everything he could on the subject, took advanced courses and quickly logged hundreds of hours underwater. Within a matter of months he was assisting local instructors in teaching their classes. In just over a year from his very first class he passed the NAUI scuba diving Instructors training course in Palm Beach, Florida. Later he went on to own a successful scuba diving business and teach over 500 students to dive. After college Michael moved briefly again to Florida and then to Galveston, Texas. It was in Galveston he worked on a crew building sailing yachts. There he apprenticed to master craftsmen and got his first serious exposure to building as an art form. He then spent a year in the Colorado Mountains snow skiing and teaching scuba diving at Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge. From Colorado he traveled to most of the Western United States and into Mexico. After his time out West, he returned to Athens, Georgia where he began a Scuba Diving business. He taught basic and advanced dive classes and conducted scuba diving trips and tours to Florida and the Caribbean. Somehow he always found time to play pool. When he married his wife Diane and he suddenly had a wife and 10-year-old daughter the scuba business, which was great for a young single man, no longer fit his married life style. So, he took a job as a district manager in the circulation department at one of the local newspapers. From there he quickly progressed to newspaper management positions in Florida, Vermont, Alabama, Georgia, Minnesota and Iowa. During those years he settled into a routine of playing golf in the warmer months and pool in the colder months. After the conclusion of this 20-year career in the newspaper business, Michael and Diane moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and then purchased their home in Marion, Iowa. That is where RAVEN Custom Cues was founded.

 

Address: RAVEN Custom Cues, 1083 6th St, Marion, IA 52302
Website: http://www.ravencues.com/