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This is a Gus Szamboti cue that no one else has worked on. I will take a video when I roll it on a pool table but it has been straight every time I have checked it before. Maple forearm with ebony, veneer and inlays. Ebony with inlays below the green speck Irish Linen. Butt weighs 15.7...

$100 on AZB, it is also listed on eBay for $135 because of the cost to sell on eBay. I bought this in the 1980s when I was going to try to make pool cues. I quit when I figured out how hard it was to make a good cue. I have received AZB positive feedbacks on my previous sales. I am in Los...

The decal is applied with water then after it is dry you must protect the decal with a clear coating. $40 each. I only have a few left

Blue Mountain was either going out of business or about to go out of business when the only color I could buy was the Black with white specks. There were sold in one pound spools and this spool with the paper roll and plastic bag weighs 20.3 ounces. I do not remember how many cues it will...

Spend a million dollars on a shop to make cues. When Ernie read this post he said buying the equipment was only the first step, he then modified each machine, sometimes a complete rebuild to be sure it would hold the tolerances, for each step necessary to make the best cue he could make. Ernie...

I'm changing my GOAT question because I should have asked about cue makers who were the best of their era. I am also interested in an individual not a company and I'll start with what Craig Peterson said about Balabushka. Craig said the first time he saw a Balabushka, without touching it, he...

Has any other cue maker used crosscut maple in a cue? The inlays are Gold and Silver. My first impression of the cue was it was stunning. I like his signature does not take away from the beauty of the cue. My next post will be about Ernie putting a new tip on my Ginacue. My replies to...

The Cues is 58 inches long. The butt weighs 14.7 ounces. One shaft weighs 4 ounces and the other shaft weighs 3.9 ounces. Both shafts are 13 mm. I will post a picture of the unused tips in a day or two. I prefer local pick up at my bank Los Angeles $5,000

The cue has been sold. I bought this cue from John when he would make the drive in from the Santa Barbara area to play in the first Saturday of the month 9 Ball single elimination tournaments for B players. Bill Duke who ran the tournament handicapped the Top players, Keith McCready, Hawaiian...

I bought a lot of Mike's cases and when he started selling his cue he said this cue was special because the shaft had a Fiddle Back pattern. It is also the reason it has only one shaft, he didn't have any other shafts that would match it. I played with it one time and like most of my cues I...

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Everyone will miss more when the pockets are tight. If player one misses about 2% of his shots and player two misses about 4% of his shots and if the break and rolls are about equal player one will run over player two. While missing 4% of your shots instead of 2% of your opponent's shots...

After I learned to play the game at a decent level, I saw a old guy trying to play pool, it looked like he was just learning the game. I was shocked when one of the guys said, "He used to be a great player!". I decided that when I lost the ability to play I would quit, it happened just after I...

Before I tell you about my match with Cuban Joe I have to tell you about the most successful $20 monthly 32 man, single elimination 9 Ball tournament from the early 1980s to the mid 1990s at the House of Billiards in Sherman Oaks California. The success was because Bill Duke handicapped the...

I apologize for not remembering the year but it happened in Los Angeles in the 1970s or early 1980s. I am not going to describe the shooting because the shooter was clearly guilty but the defense attorney was doing his best to discredit my testimony. After I described what I saw the defense...

Nolan Bushell founder of Atari said, “All the best games are easy to learn and difficult to master”. Tight pockets do the opposite, the tight pockets discourage new players. A real world example was the very successful House of Billiards in Santa Monica California. The front four Brunswick...

I bought this cue from Craig in Chicago in the 1980s. I thought I had two shafts but I can only find one shaft. Can anyone tell me if they have a similar design and if you do can you tell me when you bought it?

I think it was in the 1970s when small weekly local nine ball and eight ball tournaments became popular. One of the regulars said when he got home his wife asked, "How did you do?". He said, "I lost to the guy that won it". What he didn't tell his wife was he lost to the guy in the first...