Wrapped backwards like a Szam?
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I once built a right handed cue for a left handed player. I didn't realize he was left handed until I delivered it. He thought it played good anyway.
He probably had a hard time chalking it tho.
O crap! I ordered a cue and neglected to specify righty or lefty. I hope he builds it with the tip at the top and the bumper at the bottom, and not the other way around.
I once skinned 381 chameleon's, dried them out for months, hand sewn them togeather and made a wrap out of them. I chalked it with blue chalk and to my delight the wrap turned blue. A friend wanted to try it and put it on the rail of a red clothed table. It exploded.
Hmmm, don't know why this question is so amusing. It is my understanding
that Balabushka wrapped his cues "backwards".
Since Gus' cues were more or less a minor heresey of George's, wrapping
them the same way would seem likely.
Perhaps you should explain exactly what you mean by 'backwards'.
My understanding was he fed the thread under the cue(?).
Dale(enquiring mind, you know...)
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I've honestly never looked at the wrap on a Szam close enough to tell if it was wrapped backwards,just enough to tell that I've never seen one that has anything close to a gap in it.
If he did them backwards,it HAD to have been done by feeding it on from underneath the cue,which means he did it on a lathe that didn't have reverse spindle rotation,or it had reverse and he just didn't like doing it that way.
With all the people here with more knowledge and experience than me,and no one mentioned this
? Tommy D.
If he did them backwards,it HAD to have been done by feeding it on from underneath the cue,which means he did it on a lathe that didn't have reverse spindle rotation,or it had reverse and he just didn't like doing it that way.
With all the people here with more knowledge and experience than me,and no one mentioned this
? Tommy D.
You cannot look at a wrap and know if it was run under or over the top unless you know whether they run it left to right or right to left and which way the cue was held in the lathe.
I knew someone who worked at the Meucci plant for a short time and he said they put him on wrapping cues. The linen came down from overhead. He said he asked to be moved to something else as he was just making a mess things.
If someone did not have reverse on their lathe I could see them running it underneath.
I knew someone who worked at the Meucci plant for a short time and he said they put him on wrapping cues. The linen came down from overhead. He said he asked to be moved to something else as he was just making a mess things.
If someone did not have reverse on their lathe I could see them running it underneath.
Correctamundo - which is why I always assumed whoever was the
source for the 'wrapped backwards' story had, in fact, seen George
wrap a cue or two. In which case it would not have been difficult
to determine.
Dale
