I am not sure what you are trying to say. It is a bit confusing.
The Hoppe Pro cues were made from Titlists, and there were one piece Titlists as well as one piece Hoppe Titlists. All the same splice. All of them were made by Brunswick up until the late sixties when Schmelke and Adam began supplying them to Brunswick.
Who made them? Brunswick made them.
The cue in the ad was made from a Hoppe cue. It is a "conversion". Many of GBs cues would be called conversions if done today as he made them out of Bruswick cues. As far as anybody knows, GB never spliced a cue. Please note this is not meant to diminish his work at all.
The cue in the ad is a "conversion". Brunswick didn't make cues like that with Delrin butt caps.
The question is whether or not GB built that cue, not whether he made the splice.
Obviously it was converted from a Hoppe blank from Brunswick.
Who made the blank at Brunswick? I don't know who was working at Brunswick when that blank was made.
The bumper is wrapped in masking tape as GB did. GB did make cues with brass joint collars. But so many other features of the cue are off...and that's why the seller posts about them trying to explain them, including why the Hoppe signature is still on it.
Inside the butt cap of a GB you can see the markings from his forstner bit. This butt cap does seem to have those markings. But that is easily replicated.
http://www.discountpoolcues.com/originalbalabushkarubberbumpers.htm
The two pilots on the shafts are different.
There is much more to see. But I am no expert.
I am sure the experts see things that the rest of us don't.
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