Cue ID

[Dgerst]

Picked this up yesterday. Never seen one like it. 5/16x14 pin leads me to believe it's not Asian but maybe someone can help me out. Flat face joint with 5/15 x 14 brass pin and brass insert. Shaft has 18 growth rings per inch.
Thanks!

 

[Black-Balled]

Pool cue.

Definitely a pool cue.
Snooker cues have smaller ferrules and are often one piece.
Billiard cues are shorter and have more robust joint hardware, eschewing glued pieces.
Theatre cues are made of people and the word is queues, you barbarian.

As a result of the foregoing: pool cue.

 

[ideologist]

Lishan or other extremely low-cost import cue. I had this exact cue with a Kmart decal on the buttcap

Also this is a 5/16-18 pin, a pitch gage will verify this

 

[Dgerst]

I actually used a pitch gauge and it's 5/16 x 14.

 

[cueman]

I counted the threads also and that screw would have to be an inch and a quarter long to be 14 threads. Looks. Like a 80s Taiwan cue to me.

 

[middleofnowhere]

I actually used a pitch gauge and it's 5/16 x 14.

I don't think so. It is easy to tell them apart. Counting the threads it looks like a 18. But hay, I could be wrong. Can be hard to tell looking at a picture.

 

[PDX]

70’s/80’s Taiwanese import.

 

[middleofnowhere]

I used to have a guy who would buy those kind of cues at K-mart. I let him use my shop. He would usually change the buttcap to Delrin. Sometimes he would have to rewrap them but in general just clean them up real nice. They had real spliced points and actually looked pretty good. They only cost like $35.00. Once he was done he would hustle the cues in bars for maybe $125.00 or more. The real secret was the shaft. He would get it real slick with a nice tip. Many of the cues had the Mizerak logos on them that he would remove. They were actually nice for $35.00 cues.

 

[ideologist]

I actually used a pitch gauge and it's 5/16 x 14.

Can you post a photo of the gage on there with the 14 showing? I've looked at thousands of cues and will be gobsmacked if this is a 14.

 

[tonyboy59]

I owned one of those Mizerak cues in the early 90's. Bought it at KMart with a soft case and shot very well with it.

 

[9ballrob]

Looks like cues from the late 1980s to extremely 1990s that we imported from Kao Kao or low end Lishan out of Taiwan. I would expect it to be 5/16-18 And if it was 5/16-14 I still think it’s the makers I mentioned.