Does Dufferin still make cues with the pin in the shaft?

alstl

alstl

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I stumbled across a Dufferin in a local pawn shop a couple weeks ago and paid $10 bucks for it. I wanted a cue for visitors to use and it rolled straight, unlike the rest of the cues in the pawn shop. When I unscrewed it I saw that the pin was in the shaft.

I finally hit some balls with it a couple days ago and to my surprise the thing plays pretty darn good, better than some cues I've had that I payed more money for. I'm wondering if anybody can possibly date the cue due to the pin being in the shaft.
 
I have a Dufferin pool cue and a Dufferin snooker cue, bought at least 15 years apart. Both have the pin in the shaft. So it seems to be a characteristic of the brand:D
 
Nope they don't make them that way any more.
You have a inverted jointed Canadian model. (Good luck finding joint caps.)
They are now made with a bowl of rice for lunch.:D
All the equipment was bought and ship to China. They are manufactured there and imported by Cue & Case Florida or Lucasi/Players.
 
I used one for years as my 3 cushion cue. I bet I had that for over 20 years. I paid $19.95 for it at KMart to use for a bar cue. Funny one of the few times I took it in a bar it was stolen. It played like $200 cue. The pin was in the shaft. Johnnyt
 
solid

Yes, they hit very solid. I bought one at a garage sale for
$10 many years ago. It is not a sneaky style, as the butt
is all brown. It looks like the joint on the butt is aluminum,
as it appears dull silver, and seems to be soft if you rap
it with your fingernail.

Unfortunately the shaft is pretty warped now, and I don;t
use it any more.
 
It's called the Dufferin "signature joint". I think the made 'em that way into the 90's. According to Dufferin, the aluminum / brass joint was designed to replicate the feel and balance of a one piece cue. Dufferin was known for using good wood, but keeping prices low. Closed up shop in Ontario about 2004. Now their name is on cues manufactured in the far east. The weird joint actually feels fairly similar to the 3/8-10 wood-to-wood on my better cues. I've got a bunch of them I use to practice cue repair skills, or as bar cues, break cues, loaners etc. I've even been known to give them away to a youngster for his first cue, so his folks don't wind up buying him some Taiwan graphite decaled piece of crap from Wal-Mart. You can cut off the thin, unthreaded portion of the pin, since it serves no useful purpose other than preliminary alignment of the joint. The joint thread is 1/2-13, so a good hardware store may have nylon bolts and nuts to serve as shadetree jp's. IMO you spent your ten bucks well.

To Andy: If you have an extra shaft available cheap, I'm interested.

Bill
 
billyjack said:
It's called the Dufferin "signature joint". I think the made 'em that way into the 90's. According to Dufferin, the aluminum / brass joint was designed to replicate the feel and balance of a one piece cue. Dufferin was known for using good wood, but keeping prices low. Closed up shop in Ontario about 2004. Now their name is on cues manufactured in the far east. The weird joint actually feels fairly similar to the 3/8-10 wood-to-wood on my better cues. I've got a bunch of them I use to practice cue repair skills, or as bar cues, break cues, loaners etc. I've even been known to give them away to a youngster for his first cue, so his folks don't wind up buying him some Taiwan graphite decaled piece of crap from Wal-Mart. You can cut off the thin, unthreaded portion of the pin, since it serves no useful purpose other than preliminary alignment of the joint. The joint thread is 1/2-13, so a good hardware store may have nylon bolts and nuts to serve as shadetree jp's. IMO you spent your ten bucks well.

To Andy: If you have an extra shaft available cheap, I'm interested.

Bill
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The only reason I bought it was because it rolled straight. I was actually disappointed when I unscrewed it and saw the pin in the shaft but when I played with it I changed my mind. No question I got my money's worth.
 
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