Cue Diameter/Powerloss?
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masonh said:
I've seen a Bender Titleist or Brunswick conversion with .780 joint on eBay before.
I have three Titleist/Brunswick conversion with less than .800 joint (one by Scruggs and two by local cue maker, Uncle Larry). I thought they would be "whippy" but they are not ... very sporting cues.
Jazz said:
I've got an antique cue in the shop that I'm working on at present. It's probably a Brunswick as it has Brunswick's wove wrap but I still haven't located it in the old catalogues. It is a combination butterfly and veneered pointed cue with a wove silk wrap, ivory joints and ferrule and a spliced maple/ebony shaft. The really weird aspects of the cue is that it is 15mm at the tip and the joint is .685. Both the ivory joint which is .850 long and the ivory on the shaft, which is the same length are both cracked and must be replaced and the pin as well as it was broke off. I am making a brass pin at 5/16 12 as that is the coarsest 5/16 tap that I have. Actually, this cue originally had a 1/4 pin going from shaft to joint and threading directly into wood, no insert. There is no 1/4 tap available coarser than 1/4 20 and that's to fine to screw into wood. I would use a brass 3/8 11 but I'm afraid a 3/8 pin would be to large for such a small joint. I have already removed the ivory joint and have put in a hard wood dowel as you can see in these pictures.
Dick
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