Cue ID Help... (possible west coast maker) very odd cue

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Here is a cue, in curley maple. Floating barbells, backend with bordered pearl racetracks, delrin cap.. cue has 60's/70's feel. Maybe the ring above the wrap and below the wrap would help ID this unknown beast, or the short delrin joint ring. Delrin butt cap. When I get the cue in a few days, I will post important pics.. butt cap / joint etc..

Cue is coming in a Whitten case, but the owner was an ecclectic collector and case could have been bought off ebay for all I know...

JV
 

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classiccues said:
Here is a cue, in curley maple. Floating barbells, backend with bordered pearl racetracks, delrin cap.. cue has 60's/70's feel. Maybe the ring above the wrap and below the wrap would help ID this unknown beast, or the short delrin joint ring. Delrin butt cap. When I get the cue in a few days, I will post important pics.. butt cap / joint etc..

Cue is coming in a Whitten case, but the owner was an ecclectic collector and case could have been bought off ebay for all I know...

JV
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JV

Cool looking weird cue.

Kevin
 
hey joe

Is that a pin in shaft type cue but anyway I don't much as you know but I was just reading about some frank costa cues and the shaft looked similar to that one jay n
 
So the cue measures...

joint .833 diameter
ring is delrin .25 +/- thick
forearm is 9" lg
ring above wrap is .25 wide
wrap is 14 .25 +/-
.25 wide ring
5" butt sleeve
1.5 lg delrin and the butt cap has a little flair
butt is 30.5 roughly lg.

shafts are 29.5

60" cue...

Will do some updated pics...

JV
 
Aside from my initial "Robinson" contribution to the question about pins in the shafts...I don't have much more to offer.

BUT....

Wasn't Perry Weston pretty well known for using a flared buttcap on his cues???
 
I just took the wrap off and the handle appears to be black phenolic. Could be an early Corsair and I have e-mailed Roger and we'll see what he says. Hank Corsair did a pin in shaft when he started out in the late 60's which is when I believe this cue was made.

JV
 
classiccues said:
I just took the wrap off and the handle appears to be black phenolic. Could be an early Corsair and I have e-mailed Roger and we'll see what he says. Hank Corsair did a pin in shaft when he started out in the late 60's which is when I believe this cue was made.

JV
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That would be neat.

This one is a stumper for me but I think it really is an interesting cue.

The same names went through my mind as well but I didn't really feel comfortable with any of them.

I hope you nail this one down. It's obviously quality work as well as unique. If you can demonstrate it as an early work of a known maker that gives it historic significance as well.

Nice find. :smile:


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This cue now registers as a 10 on the wierd sh*t-o-meter... or the bizarro cue....

Couldn't get the brass screw out that held on the bumper.. so fiddling with the butt cap to see if it whas glued it started to unscrew.. well it unscrews leaving 3/8 of the cap on and its on this threaded aluminum tube. So now this piece of brass is on the end. so I pull it out and its screwed to a dowel that runs all the way to the wrap area. This was the rattle I heard. The black maybe a dyed piece of maple, hard to tell, but I have to tell you this is the oddest custom cue I have ever come across. The dowel reminds me of a plunger for a musket.. the brass screw that held the bumper on has a NUT on the inside of the delrin.

YOu have to see it to believe it..... you would think it would be easier to identify.. lol

JV
 

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From what I can tell the aluminum core runs to the handle at the A-joint. I would love to know how that was fastened together.

JV
 
Maybe a Laube? I know he had a weird method of weighting his cues, and the elongated inlays in the butt seem familiar.
 
You can fill the tube and use it as a flask, hide some weed, Cuban Cigars this cue has endless possibilities.. lol

JV
 
classiccues said:
You can fill the tube and use it as a flask, hide some weed, Cuban Cigars this cue has endless possibilities.. lol

JV
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There must be some kind of a strange cue prize...... :eek:

I have seen some strange ones....but I think this one wins the prize.

The really strange ones are generally not very well made. Swords in cues, canes in cues, home made cues...we've all seen them. But somebody put some thought into this....and had skills...and good materials....

Yup, that's a weird one. :eek:



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Not a Corsair and not a Robinson according to their sons. So I guess this will go down as a cool unclaimed cue....

JV
 
Joe contact Bert Schrager, Harvey Martin did some similar modifications on some of his later model cues. This was done so that the balance point could be moved to the front or the rear by the player.

I may be way off base, I know it doesn't look like a Martin but who knows.
 
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