Cue Ordering from Cuemaker

[The Beginner]

Hello Folks,

Is it possible to order just the Butt without the shaft from a famous cuemaker? do you think they will not offended about the order? just need some opinion from people who had an experienced ordering cues from famous cuemakers like scruggs, tasca, searing, mottey, white, gina, tad, and others...

 

[Qjunkie]

sell the shafts

Most prices quoted from cue builders include shafts. If your getting a cue from any of the cue makers you listed, have them build the shafts a minimum 13mm, with ivory ferrules, and a simple shaft collar ie; single nicklel ring then sell the shafts.

 

[yally]

I bet you will get a mixed bag of answers on this one. Luckily, in my experience the cuebuilder asked me to send the shaft I wanted to use, so he could mate up the butt properly. Wasn't easy though....took some buttering up!

Yally

 

[ChrisOnline]

yeah.. the savings by asking them not to include the shaft might not be as good as what you can sell the shaft for..

but then again its always a good idea to keep the original shafts locked away for safe keeping should the event ever arise you want to sell the cue.. it would be alittle harder to sell a butt without the matching shafts..

chris

 

[The Beginner]

The reason i don't want to include the 2 shaft because i will be using my cue as a playing cue not a collectible cue...and beside im used to predator shaft and the design of the butt below the JOINT will be just the regular ring so i can match it w/ predator shaft w/ ring...but thank you for your opinion and i think you are right just incase i need the cash and im thinking to let go the cue it will be hard for me to sell just the butt alone....ill put that in mind...thank you again

yeah.. the savings by asking them not to include the shaft might not be as good as what you can sell the shaft for..

but then again its always a good idea to keep the original shafts locked away for safe keeping should the event ever arise you want to sell the cue.. it would be alittle harder to sell a butt without the matching shafts..

chris

 

[sweatinNbettin]

The reason i don't want to include the 2 shaft because i will be using my cue as a playing cue not a collectible cue...and beside im used to predator shaft and the design of the butt below the JOINT will be just the regular ring so i can match it w/ predator shaft w/ ring...but thank you for your opinion and i think you are right just incase i need the cash and im thinking to let go the cue it will be hard for me to sell just the butt alone....ill put that in mind...thank you again

You can always just have the cuemaker use a predator partial. That way you can get what you want and get a good balanced cue as well. Have him include one of his regular shafts as the 2nd.

 

[issycue]

Hello Folks,

Is it possible to order just the Butt without the shaft from a famous cuemaker? do you think they will not offended about the order? just need some opinion from people who had an experienced ordering cues from famous cuemakers like scruggs, tasca, searing, mottey, white, gina, tad, and others...

Just to satisfy my own curiosity, who were you thinking of ordering from?

 

[BrooklynJay]

my opinion in ordering a custom is you want that cuemaker's "hit" and putting a predator shaft on the cue...well why don't you just buy a predator?

 

[whiteoak]

Hello Folks,

Is it possible to order just the Butt without the shaft from a famous cuemaker? do you think they will not offended about the order? just need some opinion from people who had an experienced ordering cues from famous cuemakers like scruggs, tasca, searing, mottey, white, gina, tad, and others...

Those long cut shots are really tough when not using shafts,could just be my flawed stroke though.M.S.