Tonkin Curly Purple Heart Gambler cue w/ 2 terminator hp shafts ,Gator wrap and custom JP's
- By Pjmac73
- For Sale Items
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Deal of the weekend $6100 shipped in US
Yeah.If offer a shot of Booze after playing pool, do you accept?
After a win in a pool match . Do you accept a drink (booze) from the the losing side?
Curious if anyone here knows any info about this cue?
I think it looks really interesting, and I love the style of the points, and veneers.
Looks really old. Antique? I do not know.
To answer my own question, I believe that these cues were made in Japan. I am not positive about that though.
Thanks for any thoughts, or info about the cue.
Welcome! Sounds ike your project is right up my alley. I restored my Gold Crown I about 5-6 years ago: https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/gold-crown-barn-find.497624/A few years back I picked up a 9 foot Gold Crown for the ridiculous price of $400. The owners had the table set up in an open carport here in South Florida and every year or two they slapped a coat of paint on it. I think they used a cat as a paintbrush.
Unfortunately, I hired a local billiards store to disassemble the table at the sellers home and then take it to their store for restoration. In two years the only thing they managed was to find new legs for it. I finally have it back in my possession and I am retired so I have the time to do a very cautious restoration on this table just so long as my age and doctors don't wreak havoc with my free time.
Anyways, I am involved in a project that I needed a spray booth for so I figured it was time to get moving on restoring this thing myself and made the booth 10x10 to I can work on all the apron pieces. There was about 6 coats of paint on everything and I have the aprons and skirts (yep! They painted these too. Same cat brush I imagine) cleaned up and ready for spraying a finish. The stretcher will need two or three small veneer repairs.
The aluminum trim still needs to have the paint removed from it (yep! They painted the aluminum trim on the aprons). I will have to replace 2 or 3 boards in the ball return box as they used huge screws to attach the triangle holder to the bottom of the box and left 14 or so torn out screw holes. The ball storage box will need disassembly to strip the paint and refinish properly. The bezel surrounding the ball storage box really needs to go to a chrome specialist as the finish is bumpy and rough. Any referrals one a chrome specialist would be appreciated.
Now the tricky part. All the paperwork from the seller describes the table as a Gold Crown II. Original bill of sales from August of 1976, service manual, receipts for new cloth being done twice, and delivery and set-up bills. However, I have been reading the forums for about a week and what I read makes me think the GC II might not be. The table has glossy formica rails, aluminum feet (all 8 of them), chrome bezel, and the full ball return system. No bronze color on the feet or trim.
I tried to keep track of the number of coats of paint on the aprons as I removed it all. Looks like a white (primer?), tangerine, blue, and fudge brown (2 or 3 coats of brown). The oddest thing is that they always painted around the decal on the stretcher but when I finally got everything the decal had been scraped off like they used a paint scraper. Don't know if the seller of the company I hired did that.
Rosewood stain is on the way here and I will spray a satin polyurethane on the aprons and a white satin on the skirts. Maybe, white on the ball return box but not sure yet.
I am taking photos as I move along but so far they are of the dreadful condition of the ball return box and skirts and aprons before and after paint removal.
And, danged if I didn't see photos here tonight of someone re-doing the formica on their rails. Might have to see if I can find any Rosewood formica to pretty up the rails. I have a little bit of experience in doing formica for some home projects years ago so I know I can do that if I decide on it.
I guess that is about it for tonight. I am hoping to get moving on this and I may be posting some questions so any replies, suggestions, and/or criticisms are welcome.
I'm curious too if you don't mind.sent you a DM with the information.
As a seller and buyer, I have only ever used check, or postal money order, and just the other day did a sell with zelle. I have no problem sending photos a buyer requests or video calls, I'm an open book. I've only had one purchase of a cue on here go slightly off track, but chose to live with it. If a buyer of what I am selling, or seller of what I want to buy doesn't want to deal with my method of payment, that's ok, not the end of the world. When buying or selling on here I only deal with established members. Twice I've had new members want to buy what I was selling and I told them I don't business with new members. Also when buying I do a search on the picture.PayPal goods and services makes the video chat unnecessary. It favors the buyer
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