Vintage Adam Cue Identification – Looking for Model, Year & Catalog Match

I think all production cue companies made some ugly cues back then but a lot of good looking cues were made also. There are so many more made today that I can't stand.

I always liked playing with Meucci and Joss cues but here's a 70's McDermott that I think looks great

best shaft for ball pocketing/accuracy?

Well, yes, but what diameter of tip?
much thinner than pool players, Gary mentions his snooker tip is 9mm in that video. But they are also hitting smaller balls so not sure it transfers, he uses an 11 mm tip for pool. He also mentions needing a longer cue for pool than snooker as you need more power. So not convinced you can say just copy snooker players for a different sport when even snooker players change their equipment for pool.

Not sure if it relates to accuracy, but I don't think I've ever seen a snooker player use a closed bridge, although that's going into technique rather than equipment

Oddball hueblers

You do not get any nicer or rarer than this 1970's Custom Shop box cue with 3 original shafts. Here is a link for the post for the cue: https://forums.azbilliards.com/thre...e-with-3-original-shafts.586861/#post-8468513

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AZ OG’s?

The advanced search function has dates so you can find early threads. Here's one of the first of the new forums. AZB seems to have started in the 1990s, but the posts before March 22, 2003 were lost in the transition to the current site.


And if you click on someone's avatar, and get to their profile, you will see their member number in the URL. I'm 1686.

Earl Strickland is member 156, as noted above.

Frequent poster @Matt_24 is member 91

Not many from those days made it into the 2020s.
I'm still here. Been a long time. I'm much more mature now.

Vintage Adam Cue Identification – Looking for Model, Year & Catalog Match

Well, a lot of styling was wild in the 70's including cues.



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Schon are definitely production cues, though they will fill custom orders. I really don't want to get into it over what is custom vs what is not or what is production. Personally, I am not into Schon, do not own one, and I have over 200 cues. The one you posted is particularly ugly with those hideous metal rings in the butt sleeve and the A joint. Those rounded CNC points are hideous. I can't recall that I have any cues with such points. Seriously, with over 200 cues I don't know that I have any with ugly rounded points like that. I have cues made in Taiwan with beautiful sharp pints, perfectly even, even some full splice. Really refined and beautiful next to that ugly garbage. You can, and many do, make sharp points with CNC.

The kind of features you talk about that you don't like can be found on cues made by great respected "biggest name" legendary "custom" makers, as well as various well respected more common makers, and "mass producers". It was the style of the times, like orange or green shag carpeting.

But the styles and design types you are talking about were definitely made, and were definitely available from Adam.

Do you actually want to see them? You will find things like full splice with veneers, real ebony, real wood dashed rings, and other such features you might not like.
I can dig that style

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