Recent content by WildWing

Think you'd better go back to Carbondalekid386 with Reddit. You might get some responses there.

For a while Tim Scruggs used Acme pins, 3/8 by 10. The time period was about 1998 through 2000 or so. Flat faced. I have two.

That's actually not an Acme pin. They were mostly 3/8 X 10, and had very flat edges to the points of the threads. I suspect any set of 5/16 X 14 joint protectors will do you just fine.

Joss vs JossWest had a few other differences over the years, other than JossWest being more custom and Joss going to mass production. Joss started to thin their cues a bit, I think to appeal to more people. JossWest, a little thicker in the butt. Also, Bill Stroud used a very different 5/16 X...

All those chalk holders, you're going to end up grinding the chalk down to the plastic where you can chalk anymore without butting up against the plastic. Better to use the chalk without a holder, brush the chalk, don't grind it, don't produced a hole in the chalk.

Looks like steel to me.

Very simple and nice. What are the two different tips?

I'm betting the pin didn't start out like that. It looks like it may have been finished kind of blunt.

Nice window design. A touch of old school.

Ebony sometimes has a grain, can be lighter than dark ebony. I'm not sure about this one though, I'd have to hold it to be sure.

It looks dark enough to be ebony to me. Could it be the picture that darkens it a bit?

Yep, me too. For either Adam or Rich, I'd like to see a better bumper on the cue, but it is what it is.

Good looking cue. It looks like a player. I see it in the picture as well. The dark ring above the buttplate reminds me of when Joss went to that. I don't know why, but they did that for the plain birdseye or curly maple cue beginning in 1984. I don't see too many wrapless there except for...

That's close as well. Nice looking cue, by the way.

You won't' find it in any Adam cue files. I've seen Adam cues that looked more like a Paradise cue, because they were very early. I wish I'd taken a picture of Dick Helmstetter's early cue, when I had the chance. I would swear it was a Paradise, but it was a Helmstetter. Not everything is in...