I’m interested in hearing people’s thoughts on this one.
Seller was in PA.
5/16x18.
Thanks!
Seller was in PA.
5/16x18.
Thanks!
Frye? Paradise? Mayer? …Rich?
- Thread starter PhilosopherKing
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I do not remember either Mayer or Rich cues with that butt sleeve bottom connection screw. I doubt Frye used that screw as often he had a penny under the bumper for year of make and the penny did not have a hole in it to my knowledge as this setup would require.
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Benelli
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So I have some early 70's ADAM's (or at least the company that became ADAM) and they all have tapped weight bolts just like that.
Did Rico Cervantes use that blunt pin early on? I don’t know why it immediately popped in my head.
The butt and joint rings remind me of him but don’t seem exactly on brand for him.
I have a 1969 Rico cue, but I can't say it is representative.
I haven't examined his cues enough to say really.
I'll say maybe.
I doubt that is a Rich, Paradise or even an Adams cue. It could even have been made by some novice cuemaker in the U.S. Who knows?
My thought is that it’s a Frye with Paradise influence. Does that make it an early one? I don’t know.
I'm betting the pin didn't start out like that. It looks like it may have been finished kind of blunt.
Somebody could have cut that pin shorter to help it fit in a case, or to make it quicker to screw on the shaft, etc.
Benelli
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Please elaborate on these doubt's, what is making you feel that way?
Only from my time playing with and seeing many of these cues. Adams did make a wide variety of cues, but I never saw one that looked like that.
xX-Wizard-Xx
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It's ugly ...
And lots of glue separations.
Looks like steel to me.