Flakeandrun
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It's for people who buy and sell cues. Most resellers and cue guys here in China will include a video of a cue spinning on these with the pictures of the cue.
Anyone try these?
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They get their stuff off the lathe or worst case, cherry picked from the warehouse under the black site.
Not Amazon.
Do they go on billiards forums?
I’ve been buying and selling cues for 40 years, from cheap to the most expensive cues
Knowledge , scales , calipers are all the required tools
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Fatboy
Ok. Collectibles aren't required to be perfect. Anything I'd buy better be.
And things change.
40 years ago, there were no websites for shops, you couldn't see the product from home, you couldn't shop from home. a lot of things have changed on how we do things.
It's cheap and the best way to know if the butt or shaft are warpped.
It's also a nice way to hold the cue for photography and videography.
Why so negative?
If you don't think you need it, it's cool but can't ignore its value.
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Flakeandrun
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People like to hear a nice clean whirrrrrrrrrrr and see those shafts spinning. Not a single seller in my WeChat sells without these. Is this a cultural difference? Maybe.... Anything to sell. Guess it's just considered a normal thing to do here.
even collectibles will have different value if they are straight or not. It's part of the condition state.
Yeah but people would buy 'em. New low end cues, not so much.
I can accomplish the same thing with out the gadgets
I’m all about the right tools for a job
I’m also not going to bog down with nonsense I don’t need.
Ask ppl who have bought cues from me if they are happy. Simple as that.
I’m not an internet cue salesman, never have been never will be. I deal in all sorts of cues with many different types of people. Collectors, players, etc.
I don’t need a fidget spinner to check what I need to check on a cue. In the rare times I do need help, I’ll go to a cue maker or “the” cue maker who has a lathe and or better tooling than me and who is smarter than me for answers
Do I know everything? Nope! Not close. Bit after 40 years , yes I know a bit and I know who to go to for answers. If I can’t get an answer, then that’s the answer. I just don’t know.
If I can find a tool to fill in those times of not knowing, I’d buy the tool. Why wouldn’t I? I do what ever is necessary to learn, know and understand all cues I own or have owned. Thats how I’ve learned what I know over the years.
Thats not negative at all. It’s the pursuit of knowledge and keeping it real. Sometimes tools help-other times they don’t.
Thats the long answer
And yes things do change. What I did 40 years ago sure as hell isn’t what I do now. I change with the times……and I’m smarter than ever.
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Fatboy
That’s for sure. I have a 8pt Gus butt that’s not straight. I bought it that way, I’ll sell it that way. But it’s not worth as much as if it was perfect.
It happens.
Most cues move out of being true after a few years. Not decades later. So on the collectible old school cues they stay straight if they are straight. 2-5 year old cues can move-no matter who makes them. Wood moves. It happens. Sometimes that can be corrected if it’s at the A joint and it’s a big enough cue it makes sense to do the work.
In the case of the 8pt Gus. I wouldn’t mess with it and it’s not the A joint. It appears to be the handle. Not something imo that should be messed with. Could it be sorted out? Possibly by a handful of cue makers. But imo that’s the wrong idea for that butt.
I’ll leave it at that , and the fidget spinner would help me how in this case? What new information would it provide? And how could I apply that information to this cue?
Fatboy<——not negative at all,
Great, so you don’t need it.
Don’t buy it.
I think that the $30 I paid for them saved me time and money going to a cue maker with a lathe. Not that there is one around here…
I don’t need it anymore either, I don’t buy and sell cues. I do have about 20 cues that were sitting in cases for 15-20 years that I wanted to know their condition.
I don’t have a lathe, don’t think there is one in my country, I don’t have a pool table to roll the cues on, and it feels silly to carry them all the pool hall.
I had one butt that when I rolled it on my desk, wobbled pretty badly, when I put it on this it was straight as an arrow, turned out that the lizard wrap had a bump in it that raised the cue when rolled on a flat surface.
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If it works for you great!
It’s a pain when the bumps in the wrap tell a different story about a cue. That happens too.
They are nice for photography as they lift the cue off the table a bit. I’m not big into photography but they are great for that.
Most important is when you buy a cue, know what ur buying or who ur buying it from. Surprises later suck. I’ve had ivory crack after I’ve bought and sold a few cues-that’s never happy. That’s an environmental thing. And the cue maker using “green” ivory. Different topic
Enjoy ur cues!
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Fatboy
Yeahhhhhhh, well some people are prone to buying pet rocks, fidget spinners and all sorts of meaningless crap because a lot of people are simple minded, but I digress. Whatever blows your hair back.
You'd be surprised... Or maybe not.
all these look good for is dulling the finish on a cue by spinning on a surface harder than the cues clear coat
Biloxi Boy
Man With A Golden Arm
If you think you want one but don't like the price, think twice because 29 will soon be 65. Of course, going to be a whole lot of this going on . . .