Recent content by Benelli

Seemed there were a lot of cue makers there this year, and all the big custom resellers. I've never been to an SBE, were there historically a bunch of smaller 2nd-hand cue dealers present?

I would kick his cue over every time I walked past it...

You need to describe what this cursed Szamboti looked like!

Number one thing you have to do is seal off the edges and floor around the roll -up garage doors. You need to get garage door floor and wall seals off Amazon. They go on the outside wall up against the flashing on the side and top. The floor ones are extra squishy and the door settles down on...

Who were the two players that had the 40k game on the action table?

Can you name a single person in Wisconsin that is NOT a deer hunter... Now you know where they got the design inspiration.

TOP Secret photo of a Schmelke R&D cue butt they were going to debut at SBE...

When you look at what is considered "best of breed" examples from both makers you could not have any more different hit feel and feedback possible. For Scruggs it's the flat faced ivory joint with a big pin and for Tascrella it's a steel 5/16-14 compression. Those joints are night and day...

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All of the sets I've seen (including the two I own) had markings or small errors. It does not feel like Hyatt put any real quality control on these balls. And if I'm right about why the newspaper ordered them then why would they. They were going to be dumped in a ink barrel and then thrown...

So there is no general consensus that these were ever intended to be billiards balls. The theory I proscribe to is they were intended to be used by a newspaper to drop inside 50 gallon drums of news print ink and used to thin the ink out when placed on a vibration stand just like those marbles...

It has a strong Joss/Falcon vibe, really great looking cue.

Definitely not a mistake. My first pool table was a Schmidt I bought for $250 off FB marketplace. I immediately started emailing Stephanie Schmidt asking questions about the table as if I had just acquired the third table ever built by her great grandfather. Instead of the 1994 Gatsby that was...

I have Cody Cash doing the exact same thing but using a set of 1930's Brunswick 26.5's as the forearm. The goal was to build a set of identical Father/Son cues that could continue to be passed down over time. I love Josh, he is truly one of the nicest makers I have ever met, and one of the...

I think you have more examples of "Secretive Ball Collector" in the antique world than us modern types. There hobby is almost entirely relationship driven with very few if any of the desirable sets coming up at auction or showing up on an online site. They tend to hide their collections like a...