Recent content by Jimmy_Betmore

Assuming the everything checks out with its condition and straightness, you should have no issues at all getting $5k for that Southwest with an LOA. And if you're going to send it in for an LOA, you might as well check the price and turnaround time for a refinish, wrap cleaning/replacement, and...

There have been too many recent horror stories about repair work and quality at Meucci for me to trust them with anything. And that's coming from someone who has always had a soft spot in his heart for the brand. I was around for the 80's and 90's glory days and I hope they're able to turn...

The room I called home during my misspent youth is long gone. But I still have that solid oak wooden rack with the room's name engraved on one side from Table 9, the only 9 footer in the room. Sure it would get a little sticky from time to time from hand oils and humidity. But that's nothing...

I'd bet high that the ferrule has been replaced. Look at how clean it is compared to the rest of the cue. No knock meant by that, by the way. I dig the cue.

Just curious, whose idea was it to change so many variables of the game? I mean, 2 on the wire to 15 is a different game than two on the wire to 11. Not saying it turned into a bad game for you. But it definitely wasn't as juicy as it had been.

It's the construction method. Round tipped points are inlaid rather than "spliced" in. One could argue that short splice points are still inlaid simply because the point wood doesn't extend below the A joint. But short splice points are a installed in a way that is exponentially more similar...

Ehhh... Close enough. Years ago I was playing a kid at the room I hung out in and he hooked himself. He looked at it for a minute then looked up at me and said, "Pass." It doesn't work like that, brother. 😂 😂 😂

The joint style, wood, and finish say, "Asian import" to me. Seeing the shaft would help a ton.

I'd say that, typically, they're similar enough to basically be interchangeable. The wild card, though, is that ABS and PVC can vary in density, hardness, etc. I pulled the table below from a plastics supplier's website. And don't pay any attention to the highlighted part. It's like that on...

ABS or PVC (very similar to Meucci's ferrule material) or Juma would probably be the closest things you could find that are commonly used today. ABS and PVC are, by ferrule material standards, very soft with Juma being slightly harder. A capped ABS/PVC ferrule with a padded tip will hit very...

You mention playing either very aggressive or very conservative. I don't know if you mean that literally or figuratively. But using the only context I have here, your post, I'm going to have to go with literally. The best players play aggressively, conservatively, and everywhere in between...

If you have a joint collar the same or similar length of the cue next to it added to the cue, I'd bet it could be repaired to a point that the average person would never even know anything had happened. Anyone familiar with Szamboti's work could probably tell something was off about it because...

Without seeing it in person it's hard to say for sure, but the pictures also make it look like you might have some mineral deposits in the grain. This isn't uncommon in a lot of exotic woods and will appear like super small bubbles in the actual grain. I dealt with this very issue in an...

They're not typically something I'm drawn to in a "I want that cue" kind of way because I enjoy wood grains more than black against white. Curly maple is my jam. But I still appreciate a nicely executed tuxedo design like the Cog in the post above. I've seen some Josey tuxedos that were...

Haha! Yeah. We realized that after the fact. But, man... My doggies were barking bad by the time we got in that cab. Neither of us were wearing appropriate footwear for that long of a walk. Plus, it was the first full day of our weeklong trip. We took a rental car down to Tucson the...