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Same cue as in the Abbott photos. JV

Ponzi scheme to payback debts... Bernie Maidoff the cuemaker JV

Well if you want a new Scruggs you will have to resurrect Timmy like you resurrected this thread. JV

Ebony full splices were heavy, as were Brazilian rosewood. The train of thought is that the splice appearing under the handle was to allow a maple sleeve to lighten the cue and extend it for rings etc... This makes sense, IMHO. Spain covers some of this in his booklet along with A-joints and the...

Thanks for the replies... this is a Balabushka, with a Spain blank, incase I didn't make that clear. The original point of my post was it pays to PAY people with the knowledge to appraise and look at cues. JV

All true.. to be honest we didn't need the x-ray to verify the maker. The back-end assembly did that in as long as it took to get the bumper off. We were 99% before we removed the bumper just based on general experience. We did the x-rays before the restoration to see if it had an A-joint, and...

Couple of things... This is why you pay people to ID cues AND write LOA's. This is a full splice Spain Brazilian rosewood cue. There is no joint under the wrap, it is a true Spain splice. The colors are the only ones we have seen with black, orange, purple and natural. It was purchased at the...

All of them... just ask anybody. JV

There is never a time when the buyer OR the seller is unprotected. Use G/S payments, great for the buyer. Use F/F great for the seller. There are as many bad buyers as there are bad sellers. I have had people hold cues hostage to "renegotiate" when everything was presented up front. Nothing...

My Gus and Toby Sweets Gus... Adversarial a few times in the 80's... He came down from Spring valley a few times to play my uncle. JV

I can say this, Miz and Martin had the fanciest ones I had seen as a kid. Other than this one, the one I saw sell had the simple veneers over the butt cap. My uncles second cue was a rosewood four pointer. His fanciest was the one he sent to AZ, if had mitered windows and some wood trim rings...

Gus Szamboti.. first cuemaker I ever met in person. Of course being 13-14 years old, I hadn't a clue. I just knew he was considered the best. Almost everyone I met while traveling with my uncle had one. Of course when the rooms you go to are frequented by Hopkins, Mizerak, Martin, etc.. you are...

Double black, mahogany, natural is so Gus.. with the maple / ebony stitch as well. JV

Any custom cuemaker could make a wood shaft anyway you asked. Now you are dealing with a CF shaft. Looking at the Viking website it appears that the shaft in question, goes conical after the 18" "Pro-Taper". You need to ask yourself do you think 18" is better than 12-14". IMHO if you are paying...

IMHO straight tapers are the ferrule is diameter A and it runs straight back to the joint collar. If drawn out this would also be conical. A pro-taper is a distance from the tip back that maintains one diameter for "X" distance. I do not know if that X distance has a min and a max. I think any...

3 and 4 JV

1 and 2... For cueman.... JV

You really cannot see it, but it is brown gator/lizard.... JV

FYI this is now posted in FB for $ 2100.00 In case any of you were buyers.... JV

Shop space, time, and quality ones were available. He also bought shaft blanks pre-turned, for saving time. Not turned to finish mind you, but maybe taking the first couple of passes off. JV