Balabushka and Rambow A-Joint?

Here is a post from another thread by Fred (cornerman) about Bushka using "short full splice blanks" and attaching them to a maple handle. This technique is what I am looking for.

Cornerman said:
When Balabushka was using maple into ebony shorties, these were full spliced ~17" forearms. They were called "shortys," but they were still full-splice. Full splice is the V-finger splicing technique forming the classic V-shaped points. So, many of Balbushka's maple/ebony cues had a full-spliced forearm connected to a handle, connected to a butt sleeve. His maple/roswood cues would often be a full-length full-spliced cue.
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and another

Cornerman said:
The reason why the buzz ring was under the wrap was because Balabushka did not want to lessen the integrity of the full splice. So, he put the A-joint at almost the full length of the short blank. The cue in question was a short full-splice, blank, most likely ebony into maple.
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and one by pdcue

pdcue said:
Burt started making spliced blanks because the quality of the Titlest,
and by extension, the Hoppe, was degrading.

One of his earliest customers was George Balabushka.
Burt made two kinds of blanks for George

Rosewood, basically a clone of a Hoppe blank with Rosewood in the butt, and Ebony, which was aprox 18 inches in length. Due to the weight and cost of Ebony, a shorter butt was used with a maple handle section beneath the wrap. He did, however, develop the
full length, Hoppe-clone version first.
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its cool. you are talking about 2 different animals. rambow made his own cues where gb bought pre made blanks. gb didnt make full splice blanks so they couldnt have used the same methods
 
spliced said:
Here is a post from another thread by Fred (cornerman) about Bushka using "short full splice blanks" and attaching them to a maple handle. This technique is what I am looking for.
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this is what your looking for. this is the davis method. george didnt do this spain/davis did.

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I understand that spain/davis built 29" full splice blanks with a maple handle spliced on. But they also built 18" blanks with full spliced points, without a handle. I believe balabushka used to purchase those blanks and then add a maple handle, making an A joint under the wrap area. That is the technique i wanted to see.
 
dave sutton said:
did you see this. spain did make short splice blanks. maybe this is what he bought

http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=132392&highlight=spain
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I wouldn't say that this is proof that Spain made short splices prongs. Dave, there are any number of reasons for the looks of this blank. 1) How can it be proved that it is a Burton blank, 2) it could be a Burton full splice blank that was cut off directly behind the points making it into a short splice. 3) I was under the impression that Burton's blanks were so well constructed. Upon looking at the end of the prong I don't see where it is very well constructed what so ever. The mitered veneers don't join on the miter and the V groove cuts were made to different depths as if you look at the spacing of the maple between the points at the very back there are rather large differences in the Maple's width going from almost touching to a rather large distance apart.

Dick
 
rhncue said:
I wouldn't say that this is proof that Spain made short splices prongs. Dave, there are any number of reasons for the looks of this blank. 1) How can it be proved that it is a Burton blank, 2) it could be a Burton full splice blank that was cut off directly behind the points making it into a short splice. 3) I was under the impression that Burton's blanks were so well constructed. Upon looking at the end of the prong I don't see where it is very well constructed what so ever. The mitered veneers don't join on the miter and the V groove cuts were made to different depths as if you look at the spacing of the maple between the points at the very back there are rather large differences in the Maple's width going from almost touching to a rather large distance apart.

Dick
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well... considering the seller is a well respected az member with ties to ernie id think its on the up and up.

no doubt the blank isnt in the best of shape BUT sure the almost 40 years of that wood sitting around unsealed bare has something to do with it.

how many titlists have you seen with split veneers and they had a finish on them?
 
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