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mareh · Aug 1, 2026

straightline said:
It's not bad advice but what of it?

Maybe
deception, fake news.
Step out of the cage, rethink, regroup, reengage.

azhousepro · Jul 31, 2026

Gorst, Meglino, Hollingsworth, Bergman, Bregu and Styer will represent USA At 11 a.m. tomorrow morning, Sunday, August 1, the WNT points-qualifying Vice City Classic will begin its Stage 2, single-elimination phase of the $20,000-added event that beginning on Wednesday, July 29, drew 106 players to Classic Billiards in Lauderhill, FL. It is the first of two, back-to-back WNT points-qualifying events to be hosted by the Sunshine State. It will be followed by the 2nd Annual Florida Open Pool Championships, scheduled to begin this coming Wednesday, Aug. 4-9 and hosted once again by the Caribe Royale Orlando Resort in Orlando, […]

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RonnieRose · Jul 31, 2026

Bob Jewett said:
Brief quotes for instructional purposes are usually within the fair use guidelines of copyright law. Of course the source should be acknowledged. Usually the "borrowers" fail to point out that the info is someone else's.

Correctamundo
~Fonzie

Wasn't that difficult

vintagecollectibles831 · Jul 31, 2026

Chris said:
Yes, if the decals were not applied perfectly straight.

The black points do not look like ebony. Real ebony is not uniformly black, and it also has visible grain. Even if stained black, there would be visible grain. The black points pictured don't show any grain, nor do the rings. That suggests the black we're seeing in the points and rings is not real wood.

The maple borders around the black points are definitely not veneers; there's no seam. Even without seeing glue lines, we'd see a seam. To accomplish that with real wood, one would need to splice points into spliced points, creating an 8-point cue that looks like a 4-point cue. That's not going to happen in a budget production cue, and is very unlikely in even a high-end cue. More likely, the maple "veneers" are simply the underlying maple forearm not being covered with decals or paint.

Since the ad copy indicates 100% maple, it's nearly certain that anything that doesn't appear to be maple is overlayed onto a maple butt.

All that being said, according to ChatGPT (emphasis in original output):

Hi, that was all really interesting. So, they took a nicely figured(?) piece of Birds Eye Maple(?), and put Overlays over it, to create the design.

Is that Handle Birds eye (or Curly) Maple, or is that is Overlay design too?

I understand there are far nicer looking figured maple out there, but it seems pretty nice to me, to use on a cheap cue.

Joss does not even use nicely figured maple wood in their forearms anymore. Not in their production line of cues anyways.

I wonder if all of the Overlay were sanded away, if the entire handle would have a similar figured maple in it.

And, for whatever it is worth, this cue is dead straight. Perfectly straight. Seems they used nice aged wood, to build a really cheap cue.

Thanks for all your time.

bob b. · Jul 31, 2026

Bump.

CMarshall · Jul 31, 2026

Slow & low…is the…tempo

Runnin9 · Jul 31, 2026

MarkDT · Jul 31, 2026

Benelli · Jul 31, 2026

So picked this up from a friend that acquired it from a Japanese collector who was into JW and TAD and at the time was living in Hawaii. It came with a batch of cues and he never got to ask about it so it just sat around with no shafts with all the other cues he bought until he got around to piecing out the collection. I bought it on the cheap with a beautiful JW BEM Merry Widow.

Cue itself is Coco or some other type of Rosewood, into Purple Heart forearm. Notched diamonds in the points and sleeve with dots and a "thick" Hoppe style cap to finish her off.

I showed these pics to some collector friends I know, who are not on this site, and the general consensus was "possibly" an early Randy Mobley...

So with out further ado, the pics.