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[one stroke]

Better pic of the butt

 

[fjk]

Linen. Green spec just makes any cue look better.

 

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Seems like so often when a question gets asked like this everybody hates on linen....like seeing the linen wrap love here!

 

[pooldawg8]

Old school to me , means linen (white/green spec)
That's my choice if it was my cue being made

 

[tykcarp57]

There Genuinely Isn't Any Choice But.............................Cortland Linen.

Balabushka and Cortland Linen #9 go together like a peanut butter & jelly sandwich.

Before settling on any white/green speck linen wrap, you should try to score CL #9.

It was George's favorite wrap and there is still some around but not for much longer.

Cortland Linen #9 is on three (3) of my customs & it's my all-time favorite cue wrap.

I actually have a Cortland Linen version that I've never seen before (brown speck).

My intention was to have another cue built but that's not an option any longer for me.




Matt B.

Holy smokes those cues in "Jerry's finest work" pic are amazing! What are those?

 

[Fatboy]

Funny thing is on my Bushka’s I like leather, on my Szam’s I like cortland.

Funny how that is.

Lucky I have some of each just in case

Best
Fatboy

 

[Bavafongoul]

Holy smokes those cues in "Jerry's finest work" pic are amazing! What are those?

The cue design with the natural forearm and ivory rings is a copy of a design Tim Scruggs made.
I thought it was the nicest design Scruggs I’d seen and sent Jerry R. photos since he already was
making me the other cue. He said he wouldn’t make an exact copy but if I changed the veneers, he’d
make the cue so that’s the color scheme I gave him to use. Meanwhile, the cue already underway was
intended to be a fancy Bushka design and I couldn’t decide on the butt sleeve design. Jerry recalled
an Adams cue sleeve and suggested we use that. The forearm stain was done to match a Richard Black
Alamo cue design I liked and Jerry said he knew exactly what to do. The two cues turned out better than
I imagined and were built with the same specs so switching cues is pretty seamless. Jerry was a master.

 

[Johnny Rosato]

Up until about 10 years ago I preferred linen, specifically white/green spec.
Since then my hands are always extremely dry and the linen on my Rick Howard
is really slick.
That is one reason, among several, that I recently bought a DZ wrapless.

 

[CocoboloCowboy]

I like Linen, my perspiration is very acidity, had Cue with Leather Wrap, it was alway looking funky because of my sweat.

Did find Kewi product to keep looking great, but honestly Linen rocks.

Not a fan of wrap-less, but that is just my person thing.

If you doing. Busks Type Cue, Cartland, or Faux Cartland imho would look great.

 

[tykcarp57]

The cue design with the natural forearm and ivory rings is a copy of a design Tim Scruggs made.
I thought it was the nicest design Scruggs I’d seen and sent Jerry R. photos since he already was
making me the other cue. He said he wouldn’t make an exact copy but if I changed the veneers, he’d
make the cue so that’s the color scheme I gave him to use. Meanwhile, the cue already underway was
intended to be a fancy Bushka design and I couldn’t decide on the butt sleeve design. Jerry recalled
an Adams cue sleeve and suggested we use that. The forearm stain was done to match a Richard Black
Alamo cue design I liked and Jerry said he knew exactly what to do. The two cues turned out better than
I imagined and were built with the same specs so switching cues is pretty seamless. Jerry was a master.

Absolute beauties!

 

[Bavafongoul]

Absolute beauties!

Thanks for noticing them. Jerry Rauenzahn, IMO, has never received the recognition
he genuinely deserved as a top tier cue maker. He has a following and when you view
these cues in person or take ‘em for a test drive, if you weren’t an admirer of Jerry’s
talents, you darn well will be afterward. I was intending to get a 360 cue from him but
somehow things kept getting in the way, plus I also never decided upon a color scheme.

 

[ChrisinNC]

Let's say you have a new custom cue being built in the traditional Balabushka style. The veneers will be black, orange, green, natural with mother of pearl inlays. I've always been a fan of the white with green speck linen wraps. Especially with that veneer color. I love the way the white with green wrap gets dirty over time and is a testament to the amount of hours spent playing with that cue.

What's your preference for a Bushka style cue? Smooth black leather or white with green speck linen?


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Traditional would definitely be the linen. Just realized this is a four-year-old thread that has been revisited.

 

[3kushn]

Teach me something about what Old School means.
Rambow made Titlist's have leather.
My 1968 Martin has Pig Skin

How old is Old School.

BTW I like the looks of linen too but. Just saying.
My players are wrapless but with a rubber grip. Ugly? Maybe. Probably.