I don’t think his plain Jane’s are particularly rare or seldom sold compared to his other cues. Maybe they are just popping up for sale less now that he’s passed away. I’ve seen plenty over the years, many on AZ billiards. He built them from maple, cocobolo, ebony, bacote, and probably other woods.

His earlier ones I have seen were maple with white delrin buttcap and 5/16x14 piloted steel joint. Often stained different colors.

Towards the middle and end of his career we saw a lot more built with a Hoppe style buttcap with ivory ring. These had both his 5/16x14 piloted steel joint and sometimes his big pin flat faced joint with 3/8x10 or radial pin.

It could destroy the shoRt cue market!

Everybody and their moms had merry widown/ plain Jane Scruggs in the mid Atlantic, a couple decades ago.

I'd gues exactly 1877637 were made.

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KenneyTran said:

I do escrow for many of my cue groups in Facebook. I barely charge anything because I’ll tried to helping people prevent getting scam. Exposing them scammers got my old Facebook account locked, so I slowing down on doing that. I’m just concentrating on keeping them out of popular cue groups and banned them from it.

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Sorry that happened to you, Kenney. Hate to see one of the good guys caught in the pinch from thieves. Better days!!

Good to know. Really good to know. But what about Scrugg's Plain Janes? Surely, enjoying the access you did . . .

Thanks for your reply. It really is good information for us all to have.

What occurs to me is that it is a simple hop, skip, and jump* from a Sneaky Pete to a Plain Jane, and if I was going to do one, why not . . . Am I wrong about the distance from one to the other? Perhaps it was simply a business decision -- was it that Sneaky Petes were Scrugg's bread and butter? If so, do other cue makers follow his example?

*In fact, a Sneaky Pete might require more work because of the points. I always assumed Scrugg's Sneaky Petes were full splice. If this is true . . .

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Looks like a little too pricey and hard to obtain or it would be fun to tuck in a corner and pull out for a certain shot at home. It would probably improve most people's shooting off the rail for example.

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fastone371 said:

I think the lighting is kinda poor to really see the color of the wood.

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Sorry about that, it was getting late in the day. I'll post more once the top coat starts going on.