What to do with a broken Gus Szamboti?

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What should I do with a Broken Gus Szamboti? Picked this one up recently with 2 decent full-size shafts, and now I'm thinking of sending this one out to be rebuilt. The butt on this cue was slightly longer than 58" from what I can tell, and the cue was broken from the joint collar down. It looks like the butt is salvageable if you add a new dowel and then have a new collar and joint added. Getting a quote to have this one fixed up.


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ouch...
You can probably repair it but it'll probably never hit and feel the same, especially mentally.
I wonder what abuse it took to break it like that.
 
So I showed the eBay photos to three different makers and none of them felt it was fixable without cutting the points out and resplicing the forearm.

So basically you have to destroy it to fix it.

If you want to keep it a Szamboti the.best suggestion I heard was making a short bridge cue out of it.
 
Benelli said:
So I showed the eBay photos to three different makers and none of them felt it was fixable without cutting the points out and resplicing the forearm. So basically you have to destroy it to fix it. If you want to keep it a Szamboti the.best suggestion I heard was making a short bridge cue out of it.
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Benelli said:
So I showed the eBay photos to three different makers and none of them felt it was fixable without cutting the points out and resplicing the forearm.

So basically you have to destroy it to fix it.

If you want to keep it a Szamboti the.best suggestion I heard was making a short bridge cue out of it.
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Luckily, it looks like a clean break, so it's pretty easy to insert a dowel and add the new collar and joint... if anything, it would just be slightly shorter. The points are all perfect, so really nothing to do there...just need a new collar and ivory joint installed. This will be more of a playing cue, and I don't really care about the value or resale on this one.
 
Cuemaster98 said:
What should I do with a Broken Gus Szamboti? Picked this one up recently with 2 decent full-size shafts, and now I'm thinking of sending this one out to be rebuilt. The butt on this cue was slightly longer than 58" from what I can tell, and the cue was broken from the joint collar down. It looks like the butt is salvageable if you add a new dowel and then have a new collar and joint added. Getting a quote to have this one fixed up.


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I had a cue break exactly like that which is one of the reasons I don't like birdseye maple. Billy Stroud was able to fix it. He built a new joint for it and where he cut it off ahead of the points created a decorative design that looked almost like maybe it was supposed to be like that. If I remember right he put in a ring with 4 dots and diamonds that lined up with the points.
 
Cuemaster98 said:
Luckily, it looks like a clean break, so it's pretty easy to insert a dowel and add the new collar and joint... if anything, it would just be slightly shorter. The points are all perfect, so really nothing to do there...just need a new collar and ivory joint installed. This will be more of a playing cue, and I don't really care about the value or resale on this one.
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You and I have very different definitions of the phrase "clean break".

Good luck with whatever you wind up doing.
 
Cuemaster98 said:
What should I do with a Broken Gus Szamboti? Picked this one up recently with 2 decent full-size shafts, and now I'm thinking of sending this one out to be rebuilt. The butt on this cue was slightly longer than 58" from what I can tell, and the cue was broken from the joint collar down. It looks like the butt is salvageable if you add a new dowel and then have a new collar and joint added. Getting a quote to have this one fixed up.


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Hurts my eyeballs just looking at that.

Lou Figueroa
 
Many years ago while breaking a rack of balls during a pool league game I snapped the shaft at the joint , thankfully I had a extra shaft later that night when I got home I glued the pieces together and wrapped it with electric tape and I still shoot with it to this day .
This was my Dufferin Sneaky Pete cue !

Had this happened to me and that was my cue I'd cry like a little kid about it !

Please take some pictures after it's repaired then share them with us please and thank you in advance !
 
Rusty in Montana said:
Many years ago while breaking a rack of balls during a pool league game I snapped the shaft at the joint , thankfully I had a extra shaft later that night when I got home I glued the pieces together and wrapped it with electric tape and I still shoot with it to this day .
This was my Dufferin Sneaky Pete cue !

Had this happened to me and that was my cue I'd cry like a little kid about it !

Please take some pictures after it's repaired then share them with us please and thank you in advance !
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Using the Sigel break? I had that happen in to a friend when he tried that. Dufferin sneaky too. Non piloted probably contributed although anything without collars is fair game.
 
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