I hear you, but the thrill of the hunt coupled with finding the unknown just makes for an intoxicating mix.
Getting a $700 to 2K cue for a fraction of it's worth because you put in the work and hound-dogged it down is so much more satisfying than the times I've just gone out and bought a $3.5k...
whew... our anonymous internet friendship means too much to me to let eBay cues come between us.
So I'm glad you're not tracking this Joss, because it wants to live with ME!!!!
There are supposed to be four or five makers like Zen but their production stays local or goes to China.
What we get over here is not much. I have a good friend who's wife is Taiwanese and they go over once a year. In December I convinced him to go to Zens shop and get on his wait list.
After two years playing APA I'm going to have to quit next month because the area of Texas I'm moving too every league night in a 40 mile radius is in a smoking bar or pool hall and after 30 mins my eyes are so swollen and itchy I can't see the damn balls.
This really sucks....
I don't mean like a literal Schmelke. I meant that the joint was more like that door-knocker joint they used in the 70's on all their cues, but in this instance on a much earlier cue before that came out.
So like, but not the same.
Chop have you ever seen this joint before?
Got it on what looked like a two-piece pronged cue with a weight stamp and I've never seen one like it.
Sort of like an early Schmelke joint.
Very...
Are we sure that the cue is not a forgery? I've never seen a Schon copy, but in the last week, I've had two different people on FB attempt to sell me BMC cues that had 3D printed but caps.
That's not a Brunswick conversion unless the donor cue was one of the Schmelke blanks from the 80's.
To me it looks like a nice cue that the maker put a water transfer decal on to give it the feel of a classic WHP conversion.
It's probably best that you did not...
It was in a question about a Joss cue and the sandpiper was in the photos with it and I got excited about the Miz and pissed off the Joss fan boys.
I suggested one of them choke on a bag of dicks.
Not my finest day, but I stand by the recommendation.
I have a couple of nice Slyfoxx and Competition's,
Also, I have three Siegl Varner, and they feel and look like they were made in the same factory, have any background on them?