Need help identifying Unknown Cue

howardthedick

howardthedick

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Hey Guys, Just picked this cue up. Don't know much about it. I do know that the original owner was from the Pittsburgh Area, whoever he was. He owned this and a Scruggs. It has 3 shafts, 2 with yellow Macarta and one Ivory. I don't think that this big rubber bumper is not original.
Thanks for your input.
Greg
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Could be any number of builders. Scruggs would be a good guess. Could be a Dayton, too. Ideas already given are good possibilities as well.
 
mamono said:
I think better pictures are needed.
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I am with you, better pictures are needed. Photo's of the cues pin / joint, the cues butt with bumper in and removed and the shafts with clear pictures of the shaft inserts would certainly help. From the current photo's the cue could have been made by almost anyone.

The woods are very nice though.

JIMO
 
I'm almost 99% sure it's a Scruggs, an old one. It is dimensionally almost exactly the same as the one above it, just without the TS stamp. All components are pretty identical in length, so it's not a stretch to imagine the same guy built both cues. I have had a few old Scruggs without the stamp & they all had micarta ferrules. My guess is Scruggs. The more I look at it, the more it makes me think it is. Even the gap between the point bases is about the same, as well as point length, meaning if it were from another builder then they both have their point jigs set up almost exactly the same pitch.
 
The shaft collars appear to not match up with the collars on the butt w .o30 silver r

I think it's an old Scruggs butt that had the butt cap replaced.
The top Scruggs cue belongs to someone very special to me. l.o.l.
Hi Nick !
"country" Bob
 
hangemhigh said:
The shaft rings appear to be aluminum, while the butt ring looks to be nickle silver, so ID by shafts might not be accurate. I agree with you Troy, early Schon all the way.
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Agreed.
Early Schon's barely had any finish on the shafts. But did have normal finish on the butt's. So they aged alot different. The pin on this cue is a hair smaller diameter than a normal 5/16 14 pin. Which only Schon did that in the early R-series Schon's. The test is when you take a JW shaft and screw it on the R series butt. It will only fit loosely when screwing down. And if you take a R-series shaft and try to fit it on a JW, it won't even start to thread. (JW as an example). Now thats a easy way to identify a old Schon. I won't say my source on this, but it was a pretty good one. Lol! :D
 
shaft collars have different rings than butt rings

vinniebabarooch said:
Agreed.
Early Schon's barely had any finish on the shafts. But did have normal finish on the butt's. So they aged alot different. The pin on this cue is a hair smaller diameter than a normal 5/16 14 pin. Which only Schon did that in the early R-series Schon's. The test is when you take a JW shaft and screw it on the R series butt. It will only fit loosely when screwing down. And if you take a R-series shaft and try to fit it on a JW, it won't even start to thread. (JW as an example). Now thats a easy way to identify a old Schon. I won't say my source on this, but it was a pretty good one. Lol! :D
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You may be right about the butt being early Runde Schon but i don't think that those shafts are for that butt........Bob
 
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