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Vice City Classic enters 32-entrant Stage 2, single-elimination phase tomorrow (Sat. Aug. 1)

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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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Figured BEM handle, on a Players PureX pool cue. Real, or Fake / Decal / Graphic Overlay?

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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):
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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.
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Weekend Mystery Cue Club

Benelli
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.

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What do y'all think?
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Where are all the CF butts?

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iusedtoberich said:
Why haven't we seen carbon fiber butts proliferate the market? I'm talking about a CF tube with no paint on it, so it will look just like all the CF shafts. Would they be too light? I suppose they could be filled with something like the shafts are to get the weight right? Is there some other reason?

The closest I've seen is one of the Chinese brands I believe has an ugly painted CF tube with wood inside, and it was the old style CF with the cross hatching from the 1990's. I may be remembering wrong on this one.
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A CF tube for a butt probably weights from -3-8oz depending on the diameter and wall thickness. Light, but they can obviously be weighted
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Figured BEM handle, on a Players PureX pool cue. Real, or Fake / Decal / Graphic Overlay?

VarmintKong
vintagecollectibles831 said:
You do not understand. People here are laughing at me, and making fun of me. I am just very angry.

I do not like being laughed at.
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Figured BEM handle, on a Players PureX pool cue. Real, or Fake / Decal / Graphic Overlay?

VarmintKong
vintagecollectibles831 said:
Have you seen the advertising for Pechaur cues? They advertise Simulated Ebony, on any cues that have any black in them. Basically Black stained Maple, I believe. Even in a lot of their high end models, priced over $1k.

Easy to simulate Ebony (just paint it Black, or stain it Black…
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I have a Pechauer cue with simulated ebony, but it is just what they call the outline of the points. It’s not like they are staining “poplar”black and calling it “tulipwood”.
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