Cortland Irish linen?

BMCC

BMCC

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Another cue builder buddy of mine just bought out a a old time cue builder in my area and has ask me to help find out if their is any way to tell if the linen is Cortland Irish linen by just the spool? i guess their is no label on it i haven't seen it yet but i do not know if seeing it will help me help him determine if it is or isn't Cortland Irish linen. If anyone has pictures of spools or other ideas please let me know. I will try to get pictures of it and post them soon.

Thanks
Kyle

PS: The other cue builder cant get on AZ any ideas on that? i have posted for him in the main forum about getting AZ to work on his computer but with no luck getting him back on AZ. The site wont even pull up.
 
Ok here is the picture he sent me not sure what the color is i think white with brown specks
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and here is a picture of a spool from off of eBay what you guys think?
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the only Cortland i have ever seen is White/Green,but i have heard of different colors,just never seen any.
 
masonh said:
the only Cortland i have ever seen is White/Green,but i have heard of different colors,just never seen any.
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Mason, I have also heard of different colors of Courtland, however, to date I kinda think it may be a Urban Legend. To my knowledge the only color produced was White / Green Speck. The only kind I have in stock is Courtland #9, however what I have is not for sale.
 
i had a Tad with Cortland once and it did feel good.it was Green/White also.i agree with you as far as i can tell the different colors may be a myth.
 
masonh said:
i had a Tad with Cortland once and it did feel good.it was Green/White also.i agree with you as far as i can tell the different colors may be a myth.
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I believe there were a couple of colors of Cortland. I believe that the white and green spec was the most prevalent however. I just remember back in the fifties when bait casting rods and reels ruled, Cortland was the line that most used and I'm almost sure it also came in white with brown spec also.

Dick
 
We had a bunch of those old baitcasters that were spooled with It, and once belonged to my grandfather, and one of the older ones had white with either black or brown specs. The rest of them were white green specs, but seems like I've seen it in white before too, although That one could have been some other type of line, because I don't think the weave was as fine as the cortland was. All I know was It was old too, and came on the same reels from that era.
 
BMCC said:
Another cue builder buddy of mine just bought out a a old time cue builder in my area and has ask me to help find out if their is any way to tell if the linen is Cortland Irish linen by just the spool? i guess their is no label on it i haven't seen it yet but i do not know if seeing it will help me help him determine if it is or isn't Cortland Irish linen. If anyone has pictures of spools or other ideas please let me know. I will try to get pictures of it and post them soon.

Thanks
Kyle

PS: The other cue builder cant get on AZ any ideas on that? i have posted for him in the main forum about getting AZ to work on his computer but with no luck getting him back on AZ. The site wont even pull up.
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Is it for sale?
 
It might be for sale. I need to ask him, he had said something about selling enough for a single cue or 2 on eBay not sure if this is the only spool or not but i will talk with him tomorrow or i guess later today looking at the time now i will keep you guys posted.


Thanks
Kyle
 
BMCC said:
It might be for sale. I need to ask him, he had said something about selling enough for a single cue or 2 on eBay not sure if this is the only spool or not but i will talk with him tomorrow or i guess later today looking at the time now i will keep you guys posted.


Thanks
Kyle
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Thank you anyway, There is another selling by the single cue on ebay. I still have some of the original white and green put away for something special.
 
Michael Webb said:
Thank you anyway, There is another selling by the single cue on ebay. I still have some of the original white and green put away for something special.
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Any ideas as to what that might be??? Maybe include silver ?? :p :eek:
 
There is solid black Cortland #9, I was told this by one of the TOP Top cue makers yesterday. Penn is a bit better if you can find any of that. I wish I could say who told me, but I cant. Lets say his basic 4 pt cue is about $5,000. so forget who told me trust me on this, also the spool on all Cortland is 100% aluminum, not aluminum ends with a cardboard spool in the middle. I had a friend here who makes about 19 cues a year get robbed on some Cortland he paid a buck a foot I think, but the the rest of the post is 100% accurate.

i'm not a cue maker, i couldnt change a tip, but I do have a extensive collection of 30-40 years old cues and have been around cue making for over 20 years. nice to meet everyone in this forum.

eric aka Fatboy...
 
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rhncue said:
I believe there were a couple of colors of Cortland. I believe that the white and green spec was the most prevalent however. I just remember back in the fifties when bait casting rods and reels ruled, Cortland was the line that most used and I'm almost sure it also came in white with brown spec also.

Dick
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Hi Dick,
your correct, when I was 10 years old, I was building fishing rods, the only two colors, I used, or knew of, was white/green, and white/brown.
Of course this was 1951..The linen was about .010 dia..
blud
 
Fatboy said:
There is solid black Cortland #9, I was told this by one of the TOP Top cue makers yesterday. Penn is a bit better if you can find any of that. I wish I could say who told me, but I cant. Lets say his basic 4 pt cue is about $5,000. so forget who told me trust me on this, also the spool on all Cortland is 100% aluminum, not aluminum ends with a cardboard spool in the middle. I had a friend here who makes about 19 cues a year get robbed on some Cortland he paid a buck a foot I think, but the the rest of the post is 100% accurate.

i'm not a cue maker, i couldnt change a tip, but I do have a extensive collection of 30-40 years old cues and have been around cue making for over 20 years. nice to meet everyone in this forum.

eric aka Fatboy...
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I don't know about the Cortland,but if you can get your hands on one of those 19 cues,they are the nuttz!!
 
those look like original Courtland spools.
They came is two sizes. The one pound like in the pic and the larger 2500yd spool like I have.

Penn came on plastic spools.

Bill Stroud
 
bstroud said:
those look like original Courtland spools.
They came is two sizes. The one pound like in the pic and the larger 2500yd spool like I have.

Penn came on plastic spools.

Bill Stroud
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hey bill,

which one came on the cardboard cone ?

thanks john.
 
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