Recent content by Benelli

I think both Richard Black and Paul Drexler have done Star Wars cues

This is correct, looks Taiwan'ish to me.

I think you misunderstand what I'm saying. That ring of wood should go all the way through it, this looks like a torn or chipped decal. I was asking you to check that with your finger nail.and see if you can pick at it.

Why does it look like the joint ring is a decal. Can you feel that missing part and see if you can pick at with you fingers.

It's a shame none of the new post are as interesting as the 20 year old ones....

One of the great masters of cue building fiercely belived this. Martin would not do points or fancy ringwork because he felt it changed the hit and feedback of the cue so significantly. Honestly this all comes down to what you need your cue butt to do. Is it only delivering stroke or do you...

Yeah people are posting them up on eBay at those prices but there not selling. I've bought two 1/1 cues in the past year and did not pay more than $150 for either. I also purchased one of his pre-retirement cues that supposedly cost $1900 new for $275. The single greatest driver of price bumps...

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...