Rarity of Southwest under 19oz?
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Mine is 20+ oz. It is ebony which is heavy wood, but I would agree that SW (at least the older ones) tended to be over the 19.
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So how long before you flip it?
Thank you for the clarification.
@OP, when your cue arrives will you post a picture? Now I'm curious.
@OP, when your cue arrives will you post a picture? Now I'm curious.
I am not so sure about that. I spent some time there when Jerry was alive and the cues were being assembles with all the pins pre selected depending on what the final cue was to be. Some had larger pins and some smaller pins at the different connections including the butt.
They may have changed what they do since Jerry died I can't say, I can only go by what I was shown and had explained to me and saw with my own eyes.
If someone has a SW you can check with a stud finder if there are any weight pins as long as they are steel.
I've played with the cue since I got it in 2008. I ordered the cue in 1999. I played before that with a plain pauferro that was about 19.75 and 20 with the other shaft. I traded it for a Pruett.
There is no removable weight bolt like in so many other cues. If there is something internal in the cue I've never heard about it. Tads are the same way when you take off the bumper there is no bolt.
Cue weighing over 18,25 ozs but under 18.75 ozs are very hard to find.........It's taken me years to collect my cues and all my ivory joint cues weigh the same weight within 2-3 grams of one another....18.5 is my target weight and finding custom cues in that weight range is very hard and requires a lot of luck.......that;s why I ultimately ordered two custom to be made so I could get the specs I want for my pool cues.
My target is Cue Butt' 14.5 ozs........Shafts 3.8 -4.0 ozs (flat faced -no brass).....Joint: flat ivory 3/8x10 or radial pin..............finding cues by Joel Hercek, Ed Prewitt, Danny Tibbits, Bill Stroud, John Showman, James White, Tad Kohara, etc......is an exercise in frustration but there's lots of cues over 19 ozs.......its the under 19 ozs cues that it becomes a whole lot more difficult to locate based upon my experience.
Matt B.
My target is Cue Butt' 14.5 ozs........Shafts 3.8 -4.0 ozs (flat faced -no brass).....Joint: flat ivory 3/8x10 or radial pin..............finding cues by Joel Hercek, Ed Prewitt, Danny Tibbits, Bill Stroud, John Showman, James White, Tad Kohara, etc......is an exercise in frustration but there's lots of cues over 19 ozs.......its the under 19 ozs cues that it becomes a whole lot more difficult to locate based upon my experience.
Matt B.
I would venture to guess less than 10%, maybe even less than 5%, of all SW cues made are under 19oz.
The way it should. A SW cue under 19oz is sacrilege. Hell, I think just about any cue under 19oz is a travesty.. Don't even get me started on those under 18.5oz..
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i saw an all gaboon ebony sw with red veneers under 19 oz...for sale a few years back.
it was a franklin too...but i didn't think too highly of it because most players i know play with at least 19 oz and heavier.
SW cues are so well balanced i'd be afraid to play with something under 19 oz.
i saw an all gaboon ebony sw with red veneers under 19 oz...for sale a few years back.
it was a franklin too...but i didn't think too highly of it because most players i know play with at least 19 oz and heavier.
SW cues are so well balanced i'd be afraid to play with something under 19 oz.
Yes there are weight bolts on some,Laurie confirmed this personally to me when I called to see if I could have one lightened,she told me there was a bolt under the epoxy and that no the cue could not be lightened by taking the weight bolt out,she told me that she could lighten the cue some by thinning the shafts some on my cue.
Then you've shot with two that were butchered,I've gotten all mine from SW directly and they've all played fantastic.
Weight bolts bring to mind a bolt that can be accessed under the bumper of the cue and unscrewed. I know for a fact that you can't see anything when you remove the bumper but wood on a SW.
When folks think of weight bolts they think of removable ones. If it is a structural part of the cue and can't be removed then its another thing.
Most cues you can change the weight. I just put the bolt back in my Mezz cue cause I don't like it light. It is 19.5. Most professional players do not play with light cues.
