AMBOYNA BURL! Unknown maker? Ideas?

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I also have a matching set of custom made Shurtz cues(http://www.shurtzcue.com/), both beautiful Tulip wood no points, one of them a Jump Break with phenolic tip, the other the player cue. I am having these cues matched with second shafts by Chris Byrne (CB cues Denver http://cbcues.com/) I'd be willing to let this pair of cues go for $1200 or trade for a similary valued Tim Scruggs or Cognoscenti if interested. The Shurtz Cues are the on the Web-album as well.


http://picasaweb.google.com/gonegray/UnknownCue?feat=directlink (WEB-ALBUM)

http://denver.craigslist.org/spo/1208437056.html (SCHON)
http://denver.craigslist.org/spo/1208439808.html (FILIPINO)
http://denver.craigslist.org/spo/1208444746.html (CASES)

 

[sputnik]

My guess is that the first cue is Philippine made. I am also guessing that the guy who made this once worked for Edwin Reyes. It is not an ER cue because all ERs were catalogued and signed (except for mine, which was the last playable cue that he would ever make - and it was mine - unwrapped, unfinished and unsigned). Of course Edwin got pissed over cue and style imitations but he always shrugged it off at the end saying that those cues will end up warping and will eventually tell on the imitator/impostor's reputation.

Edwin had people to do regular things for him but he always personally and secretly handled the innards of the cues. He also had his shafts dehumidified for two years in an insulated room with a constant temperature before he used them so that they will not warp anywhere in the world it ended up in. At one point, all his workers were pirated in the middle of his high profile projects. I was amazed with how independent he was of his crew. I forgot that Edwin took Fine Arts too aside from Mechanical Engineering and X-Ray technician's course.

Amboyna was one of Edwin's favorites, and eventually, of the imitators too.