Custom Cues 212 Years Ago

[Mr. Bond]

With inlays and marquetry tight enough to make your fingertips hurt just looking at them...
( Photo is posted large to show the detail as best as possible )

Most Americans at this time still played with maces (shown on the left)

image from: Billiard Bygones Norman Clare

 

[Mr. Bond]

a question for cuemakers:
Is there a name for that flat-cut section at the very butt of the cue...?

 

[speedi]

With inlays tight enough to make your fingertips hurt just looking at them...
( Photo is posted large to show the detail as best as possible )

Most Americans at this time still played with maces (shown on the left)

image from: Billiard Bygones Norman Clare

I can't help but comment that it is now the butts of female players that are "elaborately decorated with inlaid designs and pictures". Is this progress or what?????
Speedi

 

[TomIndingaro]

very interesting thanks

 

[franko]

Black Boar

a question for cuemakers:
Is there a name for that flat-cut section at the very butt of the cue...?

I know Tony Scinilla owner of Black Boar cues made a select few of those in the late 90's, he called them Mace cues.My late friend John O'Neil and myself both passed up a chance to buy the 1st. One he made.It was the biggest mistake in cue collecting the 2 of us ever made.

 

[kilby]

The flat cut was commonly called simply the "flat" and sometimes the "mace." It was used exactly as was the parent mace, to hold the cue by the tip end and strike the ball with the butt end (they did not use a bridge).