Recent content by Benelli

All respect to the Crossroads, Integrity and others of the world, but consigning a cue is absolute insanity. As others have pointed out, the steps you need to take to protect your assets are well beyond what the average seller is willing to do.

Yeah a collection like that will get no where near what he asking for just 150 pieces. Sadly the collectors who collect those types of Billiards items, are for the most part, dying off. He would be better off going to Sotheby's, selling them in Dubai, and taking the hit on the auction fees...

Shane Jackson ( find him here ) is the King of high quality rapid wrap jobs. From real $500 to $300 Elephant and ringtail lizard to $100 various leather prints he has it all. His turn around time is two days excluding shipping time. I've had him do several high-end cues and would absolutely...

I always thought a short splice was cut off perfectly at the A-joint. To me this is a full splice since they jointed below the wrap

Looks like a early ADAM to me

I thought it's called Heyball and it's the biggest billiards game in China?

I'm not sure the balls and the box go together, would not be surprised if someone bought a new set and put there old ones in the box. I see this all the time. The single biggest truth to Pool Ball Collecting is... What's in the box, is not what came in the box...

There mid-80's Aramith made balls. Looks like they they spent some time in a garage or a storage unit exposed to heat and humidity. Hit them hard with Aramith restorer and Speed shine and a ton of elbow grease and they will clean up nicely. But where you have yellowing in the deeper chips it's...

These look old Hyatt centennials from the 70's early 80's before Aramith took over the contract. While certainly collectible I would not consider them highly playable balls. Is the line under the 6 and 9 straight or curved?

Yellowing is a combination of age, Sun and or heat. I've had vintage balls in a sealed box from.mid 70's and each of the balls had different levels of yellowing. It's very tricky to compare solids and stripes for yellowing because of how differently the white resin of the stripes ages compared...

Shipped a cue in a case last week used a 6x6x37 box, weighed 3lbs ground from Texas to West Virginia cost me $37. I think I'm doing ok.

You can polish them up to almost new and the color match will be perfect then. K2 lays out the perfect cleaning method in the Pool Ball Collecting thread. Just follow his instructions and they will look amazing when your done.

This is why I stopped printing labels at home for UPS and FedEx. I will only ship from one of there shipping centers and only pay cash. The FedEx ship.ce ter stopped taking cash so now I go.in with a $40 visa gift card and make electronic payment via that. What they price is only what there...

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

This is correct, looks Taiwan'ish to me.