Anyone got any? 
Looking for Mason's Micarta rod or ferrules
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Hightower has them .
How many do you need?
A bunch. I am looking to use them as my standard. Rod preferred since it is cheaper. If you have a pile of them you won't use, let me know.
A bunch. I am looking to use them as my standard. Rod preferred since it is cheaper. If you have a pile of them you won't use, let me know.
Mason has allowed me to become the distributor for them now. I do carry the rod also. See my tips and ferrules page on the Cuesmith site below.
All I see is the yellow micarta. I r no gud with computers, though.
The Yellow Micarta is the Mason Micarta.
Oh, I was just worried it was like the Westinghouse stuff which is really yellow. Masons is fairly whitish.
The stuff I have from him is fairly yellow.
It has changed color . I still have an old tube from Mason. It's off white or close to ivory.
The new ones are much yellower with a hint of green.
I've bought tubes and rods.
The rod from CH seems to have better machining properties.
I wish we can tell the shift foreman at NORPLEX to add more white dye when you make them for cue makers. :rolleyes
It takes years for the Westinghouse stuff to become yellow - then, when
you turn it, it becomes white again. Must be magic.
Dale
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I have carried the Mason Micarta pretty much since he began having it made. And every single batch is a little different in color.
To set the record straight - the "Mason" micarta is nonsense. He may have been the first to handle it but others have now taken the lead. The stuff is available from the manufacturer for anyone wanting to buy it, can afford their minimum order and knows what to order. Hightower and myself are the only two known sources to carry it for a reasonable price.
Mason was selling it for substantially more until we undercut him whereby causing the profitability to scale downwards since we are selling so much more of it and have it readily available for sale whereas he did not.
Mason was selling it for:
the tube was $100 per 3 feet or $50 per foot
the rod was $115 for 3 feet or $55 per foot.
Those prices were out of sight! If you check current pricing you'll notice it is being sold for considerably less.
Mason was selling it for substantially more until we undercut him whereby causing the profitability to scale downwards since we are selling so much more of it and have it readily available for sale whereas he did not.
Mason was selling it for:
the tube was $100 per 3 feet or $50 per foot
the rod was $115 for 3 feet or $55 per foot.
Those prices were out of sight! If you check current pricing you'll notice it is being sold for considerably less.
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The 1980's stuff Schon was using turned yellow all the way through.
They don't think of us when they make them.
Maybe on the next batch, call them and specifiy you want it as close to white/ivory as possible.
The last rods I got from you machined really nice.
No. It doesn't. Westinghouse never sold anything called 'yellow' Micarta.
It was all marketed as White Micarta.
The Schon version had a faintly off cast ivory-ish color which
yellowed over time - suggestive of ivory. That is why knifemakers loved it.
The first ferrule I ever put on was nearly 35 years ago. It has no finish
and is sort of orange in color, has been for years.
The piece I have is now nearly 40 years old - it is yellowish, certailnly
not refrigerator white like Acetal.
I have processed dozens of ferrules and joints in the past few years -
ALL of them were off-white after being turned - but much closer to
white than anything else.
As I understand it, Mason wanted yellow color so it would look like Schon's.
HTH
Dale
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Isn't the product ONLY for cues? That is certainly what Mason said when
it was being developed. He claimed he worked closely with the company
tech people.
I have often wondered if he was using an Atlas material, who also claimed to have
come up with something 'just like' the old Micarta, as a guide for his Micarta.
Dale
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Isn't the product ONLY for cues? That is certainly what Mason said when
it was being developed. He claimed he worked closely with the company
tech people.
I have often wondered if he was using an Atlas material, who also claimed to have
come up with something 'just like' the old Micarta, as a guide for his Micarta
One wonders just how much they knew when they didn't evern know what
resin to use
Dale
Maybe the dying process , but not the material. Norplex lists it's different uses . No mention of cue ferrules. They couldn't care less about us .
Check the pic.
Mason's is on the left ( when he was selling them exclusively ) .
Pardon the lousy IPhone pic.:grin-square:
The next rod is from CH.
The small piece is the old micarta.
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Dale,
You may know Westinghouse material, (and I do not), but I do know Schon material. For you to tell me the Schon stuff does not turn yellow all the way through is wrong. I have my doubts that you actually have any 25 year old Schon material in your possession like I do. I just went and scraped deep into one of those ferrules and it was only slightly lighter in yellow color deeper in.