Copper?
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I don't have any personal experience using copper, but Brandon Jacoby made on helluva cue using copper. He named it Montezuma. It won cue of the year in 2009.
Here´s my Murrell. I really like the copper color and I think that Kenny blended it in real nice in this cue.
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=330177
Regards
Chrippa
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=330177
Regards
Chrippa
Copper and Ivory
Here is another one Mr. Murrell Copper with Ivory cue.
Here is another one Mr. Murrell Copper with Ivory cue.
Copper Chopper
In 1966 I helped a friend build a great chopper out of a 350 Ducati. I went with him down to the chrome plating shop see how everything was progressing. When we got there they had everything all shined up in copper plate awaiting the chrome. He liked the copper, it looked great!!, so good that he had them leave it all that way. He sprayed clear over it: what a look!! Black and copper...wild!!....until it started to tarnish.
Perhaps a modern clear coat would work better but back then, with the clear coat we had, it was a disaster in just a couple months, all green, dull and yucky.
I think it looks great on a cue but will it hold up? Time will tell.
Robin Snyder
In 1966 I helped a friend build a great chopper out of a 350 Ducati. I went with him down to the chrome plating shop see how everything was progressing. When we got there they had everything all shined up in copper plate awaiting the chrome. He liked the copper, it looked great!!, so good that he had them leave it all that way. He sprayed clear over it: what a look!! Black and copper...wild!!....until it started to tarnish.
Perhaps a modern clear coat would work better but back then, with the clear coat we had, it was a disaster in just a couple months, all green, dull and yucky.
I think it looks great on a cue but will it hold up? Time will tell.
Robin Snyder
If copper starts to tarnish it goes from beautiful to awful looking and I can just imagine what your friends bike looked like! I bet he wished he'd let the chrome shop do their magic many times after that.
If it don't go....
He disassembled the whole bike, had everything chromed ($$$$$$$) and re-sprayed in chrome yellow and black. It was pretty nice if you like choppers... we all did.
It was pretty quick, too, and would run with the big dogs all day and night.
You should have seen the purists roll their eyes. It was great.
Don't forget this was in 1966. I'll bet clear coat has come a long way since then.
Robin Snyder
He disassembled the whole bike, had everything chromed ($$$$$$$) and re-sprayed in chrome yellow and black. It was pretty nice if you like choppers... we all did.
It was pretty quick, too, and would run with the big dogs all day and night.
You should have seen the purists roll their eyes. It was great.
Don't forget this was in 1966. I'll bet clear coat has come a long way since then.
Robin Snyder