BIG Cue Just Repaired-New Player?

Just back from a wonderful cuemaker Roland Becker.
This is a monster cue, hits like a cannon, and I have plenty of tip material from the soles of my old wingtips.
Vintage cue, good for certain shots.


This is a brass 3/8-10 flat faced phenolic joint
The brass pin is new, the old pin was a strange 3/8-10.
The shaft is a modified pro taper turned from a 140 year
old telephone pole originally installed by Alexander Graham Bell himself.

Specifications:

Butt & shaft an even split 44.5/44.5
7 ft. 5 in. cue

Butt weight..................33.00 oz
Shaft weight................12.60 oz 19.57 mm

45.6 ounce total weight
Need a couple more people to get an accurate balance point
The butt could be drilled for a weight bolt

pt109 said:

I was considering a substantial bid on this cue...until I saw the ferrule...
...I hate long ferrules...:angry:

...and then I also realized that there probably no 140 year-old telephone poles...
...it was probably a telegraph pole...

So my bid is only $800....you pay shipping...sorry, that's firm.

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The cue is upwards to seventeen years old.
Telephone telegraph it still has provenance.

ideologist said:

But is this cue subject to Operator Error? I want my cue's calls to Collect for me. I would always be Busy with this Trunk of a cue.

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The cue is straight together and apart

You think these cues are all fun and games until you're in a money game with the shot that you can't get over with a bridge, and you pull that 8 footer out
All of a sudden it's not so funny

I'm just sad that I threw away all my old Florsheims because I don't like the original tip
I like a medium tip, somewhere in the upper seventies.
67 is too soft, and besides, it doesn't hold chalk very well.