Recent content by Chopdoc

I wanted to update my earlier post with a picture of the pin, pilot, etc, as well as the butt cap and screw. I feel it could be significant for some to see it. https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/old-viking-cues.550234/post-8066839

I remember that cue from the gallery. Really cool. (y) (y) (y)

I like classic timeless designs. I also like some period 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's stuff that is more of the period. This synthetic painted stuff I don't get. People paying huge amounts for a cue because it is painted a certain color? Nuts as far as I am concerned.

I have eclectic tastes as well. I do own some odd balls. Nomina obscura is what I call them. It would not be surprising to find that cue in my collection. We play nice as long as you play nice. ;) Remember: Yes folks, that is actually me.

Interesting construction. Not our usual "cheap cue". Those rings are not cheap plastic, they are some kind of phenolic. Huge brass pilot. Wood butt cap. I have seen a bumper like that before, but it is not in my records. I made a big study of bumpers some years ago. It's an...

The stamped number indicates Adam. They numbered them so the shafts didn't get mixed up in shipping. Though similar to the Schmelke joint, I don't think they interchange. Brunswick has a large online archive of their old catalogs, you can find the cue there. I have one just like that in my...

All due respect...I hate you... ;) :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: Back around 1990 there was a little pizza shop in a small coal patch town that had a Valley coin table. I used to hang out there some and play. On the wall rack they had Willie Hoppe cues. I think there were four, as well...

Typically $125 to $150. Some will sell for $250. Typically they attract more if they have the Glider joint than if they have the odd pin in shaft Dufferin joint. I don't know the name of that joint. I recently picked one up with ebony into figured birdseye maple for $80. I think the...

They sell online, and they do ship to the US.

This model is not in my files. As for the shaft, any competent cue maker can cut the shaft off the joint, turn a dowel on the remaining bit, and put a new shaft on it.

The only guy that used to beat me regularly in college had a Meucci. He kept trying to play me for my block letter Joss. Glad I didn't. I still own it. He became an engineer I think.

You might not recognize the earliest cues made by Bob Meucci. You're comment is interesting to me because overall I don't like meucci designs, though I like some. I find them generally ugly. I own exactly one Meucci cue.

I figured you would, I was being facetious. ;)

It's a real mix, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, and beyond. There are the classic "timeless" and then there are those that are more specific to the taste of the time. I gravitate toward some of the designs of the 50's and 60's because they are nostalgic, not because I think they are...

Well, a lot of styling was wild in the 70's including cues. Schon are definitely production cues, though they will fill custom orders. I really don't want to get into it over what is custom vs what is not or what is production. Personally, I am not into Schon, do not own one, and I have...