Give me your 2 pence worth please.

Wity

Wity

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Yeah the saying is 2 cents worth over here too but it seems appropriate as i'm asking Americans for advice on a Snooker cue. :D

I have this Trevor White one piece cue. Very few of you have heard of him i expect but he is regarded as one of the best snooker cue makers in the world and has a waiting list that's 10 months long or so. Anyways the problem is i want to sell it and as it weighs 20 0unces the price it will get on ebay is going to be I imagine as much as £100 lower than if it were the more normal 18 ounce. The solutions pretty simple normally, just have some of the lead weight removed which will cost about £20 to be done but I fear it may not be advisable.

The cue weighed 20 ounces when i bought it 2nd hand and i had Trevor add a female fitting in the butt for extensions. At the time I asked him if he could reduce the weight too. The brass fitting added around 1/2 an ounce but he returned the cue to me still weighing 20 ounces so little of the lead was actually removed. This did not bother me one bit as I knew i'd get used to it pretty easily. In the three years since then i've got the bug for cues and have at the moment around 20 or so 6 of which i play with regulary which are all much the same spec and between 17 and 18 ounces.
I now find myself using the TW rarely as it's a case of playing terrible with it for a few frames at least as I re-acustom myself to it and as Trevors cues have in that time shot up in value it's become an expensive ornament in my rack.

The lead however is some 7" from the end of the butt considerably deeper in so i'm told than normal and drilling in that deep to remove lead may well cause the snakewood to fracture. Bear in mind the make up of a handspliced snooker cue being one piece of ash to which the splices are glued to do you think the risk if any is worth taking?

The snakewood splices are some 10" long btw followed by tulipwood then the ebony ones.
 

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A 20 ounce cue is okay but the majority of snooker players would think it too heavy and not bother bidding rather than bid taking the cost of a weight alteration into account. As such i reckon it'll go for best part of £100 less than if it were 18oz
 
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A 20 ounce cue is okay but the majority of snooker players would think it too heavy and not bother bidding rather than bid taking the cost of a weight alteration into account. As such i reckon it'll go for best part of £100 less than if it were 18oz
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I would reserve the weight removal option as the last line of defence.
Demanding under the best of circumstances, the presence of snakewood
makes it a very risky exercise indeed.

Is the demand for his cues perhaps high enough that some one might jump
on it to forego the wait time?

You could always calculate the least ammount you could stand to
accept, and list it with the 'buy it now' option. Or perhaps, try some
other option than ebay - perhaps some type of Snooker Forum?

BTW - is the use of lead typical in Snooker cues?
A pool cue maker who weighted his cues that way would risk being
drawn and quartered.

Dale
 
I A pool cue maker who weighted his cues that way would risk being drawn and quartered.
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LOL As would a snookercuemaker who inserts steel bolts.

Actually lead is the traditional way. When some guy came up with the threaded steel bolt method he was pelted with Lemons and told to naff of to America. :D

Seriously though i ask you guys because your more acustomed to coring a shaft. I'm told the main problem is the heat generated by drilling but i wonder if it's overstated seeing as theres effectively a seven inch hole already there one would be drilling initially through a plug then into the lead which would be glued in.

Trevors the man to ask obviously but i cant seem to catch him when i ring and he's well know for being late in answering email's probably because he has so many and no website. Maybe he's come up with some fancy new low throw gizmo of a cue and we have already deported him.

Ideally what i want to do is advertise it as it is but also state with confidence that for £x I can have the weight reduced. With that in mind I'm off out in a mo, going to take it to a local cue maker see what they think.
 
Since there is already a hole there, drilling out the lead weight should be easy. Lead is so soft that slowly drilling a hole a little at a time can be done without even getting it warm.
 
Wity said:
LOL As would a snookercuemaker who inserts steel bolts.

Actually lead is the traditional way. When some guy came up with the threaded steel bolt method he was pelted with Lemons and told to naff of to America. :D

Seriously though i ask you guys because your more acustomed to coring a shaft. I'm told the main problem is the heat generated by drilling but i wonder if it's overstated seeing as theres effectively a seven inch hole already there one would be drilling initially through a plug then into the lead which would be glued in.

Trevors the man to ask obviously but i cant seem to catch him when i ring and he's well know for being late in answering email's probably because he has so many and no website. Maybe he's come up with some fancy new low throw gizmo of a cue and we have already deported him.

Ideally what i want to do is advertise it as it is but also state with confidence that for £x I can have the weight reduced. With that in mind I'm off out in a mo, going to take it to a local cue maker see what they think.
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I would wonder why anyone would have a problem with lead either(besides it being a carcinogen). It could always be put inside a core.....anywhere you like.
 
I don't see any problem other than the brass insert for the extension . I would drill out the lead and replace with a wood core then drill and tap for a steel set screw weight bolt . No big deal . You want a stable core for that snakewood ...;):eek:
 
At the mo it's 57.5" 8.5-8.8mm tip (depends on how tight i hold the calipers) and 20 oz. Tommorow though i'm taking it to:

http://www.thesnookershop.co.uk/servepage.asp?page=7

I left it too late to go there the other day but i'll see what they reckon on getting it down to 18oz.

I expect it'll fetch £300-£350 £400 with it at 18oz inc it's mini butt and some good photos.
 
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