another cue ID help post

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The knowledge of the all but forgotten game never ceases to amaze me on here. You guys really know your stuff. I'm glad I joined this forum and have gotten to pick up what little knowledge I have from enthusiasts like you all. Thanks for the help. And thanks TATE for hooking me up with that bumper for my "Rambow"
 
goin2bepro said:
The knowledge of the all but forgotten game never ceases to amaze me on here. You guys really know your stuff. I'm glad I joined this forum and have gotten to pick up what little knowledge I have from enthusiasts like you all. Thanks for the help. And thanks TATE for hooking me up with that bumper for my "Rambow"
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I forgot about that. Hope it fit OK.

Chris
 
Chopdoc said:
Oh yeah! Nice one!

You really nailed it.....down to the model name. Those imports can be so hard to nail down because there were so many different ones.

I think I had guessed Imperial...I have to go back and check.
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Yes you did - you know your imports!

I have a lot of literature. It's more a matter of having time to look through it. This one happened to be in an old Imperial catalog I had sitting near my computer.

Chris
 
Somebody was selling stacks of old catalogs recently on Ebay. Right before the holidays so I didn't have the scratch.

That's what I am lacking, the literature. I am working off of memory so much and saving whatever pics and scans I can find on my hard drive.

I have some old catalogs and brochures packed away somewhere. When I find them I will scan them and put them online. I have Cornhuskers, West Penn Billiards, McDermott, JOSS, Saunier Wilhelm, Mottey, Wright Cue Company (gotta love his cue pictures) and more, all from mid eighties up to about 91/92.

I just love researching stuff. I'm such a geek. :embarrassed2:
 
Chopdoc said:
Somebody was selling stacks of old catalogs recently on Ebay. Right before the holidays so I didn't have the scratch.

That's what I am lacking, the literature. I am working off of memory so much and saving whatever pics and scans I can find on my hard drive.

I have some old catalogs and brochures packed away somewhere. When I find them I will scan them and put them online. I have Cornhuskers, West Penn Billiards, McDermott, JOSS, Saunier Wilhelm, Mottey, Wright Cue Company (gotta love his cue pictures) and more, all from mid eighties up to about 91/92.

I just love researching stuff. I'm such a geek. :embarrassed2:
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And the information you've provided is helpful. It helps to have other experienced opinions.

It takes a lot of time to scan and publish this stuff. To do one Brunswick catalog, for example, I estimated a total of about 8 hours to scan, correct, resize, thumbnail, and download and layout the pages.

If you ever come to LA I'll show you my "library".
 
I actually designed, implemented, and managed one of the early corporate enterprise class scanned electronic document management systems. It included large scanner stations (big enterprise class production volume Canons), specially written database software, client software, hardware and software redundancies and backups, disaster recovery, staff training, and administration. That was nearly ten years ago.

I actually have a commercial scanner with a large document feeder at home. :wink:

I am (or at least I was) the scanmeister. :wink::D



It's still obviously time consuming but when I come across my old Billiards stuff I will scan 100% of the cue pics etc and post it online for the public and/or provide it for others to post.

I have a goal: To help get all the resources online and create a place with links to and/or hosting of all the available online resources for cue identification.

I already got a start: http://www.billiardsmarket.com/cue-identification-resources-thread-the-first-place-to-look-t45.html

I have are more links to make, I have to go through my browser bookmarks to do it, and they are substantial, I just have to sit and do it. I also have scans to post once I get them uploaded to a host.

If you have any links, please contribute.

I'm an Open Source kind of guy. :D
 
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