hope it generates interest with some new folks.

Mensabum said:

4 with cortland?? Lucky devil!!
Gotta be scruggs!!!

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Yup……and all of the cues would have Cortland but I couldn’t find any for my last cue made and Bob didn’t have any.
I could have waited but the ivory ban in CA was about to kick in so I was fighting the calendar deadline to receive the
cue. Jerry R. was also building me a custom cue at the very same time and he was able to find CL #9 and that was my last cue built using Cortland Linen #9 as a wrap. Both cues arrived Memorial Day weekend 2016. Five weeks later CA’s
Ivory ban took effect so it was a close call. I just didn’t have time to find some CL for the cue Bob was building for me.

BTW, I miscounted. Five of my cues use Cortland Linen and I forgot my ‘85 Runde Schon also has it too. The cue is a closet queen because I switched to ivory joints a couple of decades ago. 4 of the 6 cues in my 6x12 case use Cortland Linen. The photos of the Schon cue shows you a wrap almost 41 years old and still good as new. I played with this cue for 20 years before retiring it after I got my Scruggs cue and just kept adding more cues so my Schon remains retired.

in the past when there were not lots of tournaments and players were gamblers , there were so many very top players that never even entered one or tried to win.

most, few even knew their names because we did not have the internet.

just a couple// bernie swartz,, norm hitchcock,, joey spaeth, weldon rogers, richie ambrose ,mike euphemia, jimmy marino,
cuban joey, etc. all could beat anyone on a given day

LawVols said:

It’s available on eBay if you’re still

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I appreciate the 3 minute notice. lol I mentioned initially I would buy it, a message stating a price would have been kinda nice.

NINEBALLART said:

I heard Treadway retired and quit making cues.....I don't know if that is a fact but I was told that by a person that buys a lot of cues...

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I think you have been misinformed. Josh is still working. He is now one of USA's best. He apprenticed cuemaking many moons ago under Jim Buss.

Just sold on eBay at $775, for future value reference.

Island Drive said:

I just heard Oscar Dominguez is gonna do one at Hard Times.

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I wonder how you break the balls! Interesting. With the back tier of balls gone from the rack the breaker could more easily leave a cross bank.

u12armresl said:

Hmmm, I offered to buy it from you. Oh well.

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It’s available on eBay if you’re still

High level of buld quality as expected!

Ariel's cues are usually great players

New cue with Carmeli and Cohen lineage.

DJKeys said:

I am posting this in the Wanted/For Sale section as it seems most appropriate, mods please move it if necessary.

I have seen a lot of recent for sale ads here on AZ where the seller is charging extra for insurance of the shipment. These seems to be a recent thing, as I have been buying and selling here on AZ since 2005 and have never seen this. I know that shipping is expensive, especially for high-priced items, but I have always thought that it was the seller's responsibility to provide insurance, which I have always done.

I guess times are changing, sadly.

-dj

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Times do not change with regard to TRUSTED seller integrity. The seller of cues (or most anything of real value) with any business sense ALWAYS prices in insurance and SIGNATURE confirmation unless specifically told not to by the buyer in a written message to the seller. For domestic sales this is gospel. It is generally the sellers responsibility to have confirmation the product was delivered to the buyer. The exception is with overseas transactions or overseas buyers using an intermediary.

For overseas sales most buyers want to evade paying customs duty. Cues can only be insured for the customs amount declared. When a buyer wants to claim $250 value on a 4k cue, I can only insure it for $250. I only accept secure payments from overseas. So if the buyer wants to accept the risk of undervalued insurance, it is totally agreed beforehand that the risk is on them. For intermediary deals I am 100% out of the delivery once the product is received and accepted by the intermediary. With cue sales times only change with the shysters.