Found, thank you. I knew it started at 10am...I just mistook the timezone.

spliced said:

Points look like some Josswest I’ve seen, spliced but with rounded tips.

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The ones with rounded tips on the outside veneer are not spliced, but are flat inlaid pieces. Ernie G introduced that method and Stroud used it a lot. My guess is the bidders think it is one of those two.

Thanks for the replies... this is a Balabushka, with a Spain blank, incase I didn't make that clear. The original point of my post was it pays to PAY people with the knowledge to appraise and look at cues.

JV

LOL

Black-Balled said:

I.would have bet your whole bankroll he was an only child.

You almost went home broke, damn!

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Only child? What are you talking about?

I can't see what that idiot is telling you but I can see that he has said something.

Like I tell everybody, that guy is the shit stain of this Forum. Whatever he has said I am sure he is completely wrong. He has done this same stuff for years.

classiccues said:

Couple of things... This is why you pay people to ID cues AND write LOA's. This is a full splice Spain Brazilian rosewood cue. There is no joint under the wrap, it is a true Spain splice. The colors are the only ones we have seen with black, orange, purple and natural. It was purchased at the SBE THIS YEAR, from another "knowledgeable" dealer as a Petersen, but he said he really did not know. It came to him as an unknown from another long-time dealer. Between those two, there might be 50 years of "experience" as cue brokers. Another great restoration by the Tascarella shop. (Check out the birdseye shaft) Yes it now has a letter or two... and it has been x-rayed like a broken arm.

So Chop... what do you think?

JV

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Years ago I was approached by a gentleman in northern Mich that had been purchasing blanks from Joel for years (pre 2000) and building cues that looked very similar to this. He had said Joel was no longer selling just the blanks and asked me if I would be able to build him some similar blanks that I would sell to him.
Of course I told him no. His name escapes me at this time, however he did send me pictures of his work that is still in an envelope around somewhere.
Not sure if Joel ever did true FS or all of his had the maple V splice under wrap.
If I run across the pictures and envelope with the name I'll let you know. In a phone conversation I had with him he mentioned they were perfect replicas of (?) whoever he was attempting to emulate.

GoldCrown said:

I was asked to play a race… I asked Which Race.

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It is 2007 and you can still be whatever you want to be, friend.

Craig N said:

I have a set of excellent used Centennial balls w/3 different cue balls-red & blue dot original’s and a regular cueball. They are in a Aramith black nylon carrying case. The case has a compartment that holds miscellaneous items. I will throw in a trick cueball & eight ball. I have pictures if interested. I’m asking $325.00 w/free shipping & insurance.
Craig N. McBride
972-689-6247

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Will be contacting you via text and the forum message system.

Black-Balled said:

All Koreans where I go, except me.

If thats how it’s colored, thats how it’s colored.

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I was asked to play a race… I asked Which Race.

The new Centennials are here!! The new Centennials are here!