Doesn't get much better than this....

flyvirginiaguy said:
Again, there was one recently posted on AZ for sale (pic below). I can throw some more out there btw, without the white ring design in the butt sleeve. But yes, you can say the majority of his cues have a shorter butt sleeve. But knowing they exist, would knida make it useless in determining whether a cue is original.
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Right you are, but that butt sleeve has more than inlays, which was my point. It's assembled from pieces, to give the illusion of maple inlays. The OP's cue had just inlays, which I've still yet to see in a Balabushka with a 3 inch butt sleeve. Not that one doesn't exist. I just haven't seen it.
 
WildWing said:
Right you are, but that butt sleeve has more than inlays, which was my point. It's assembled from pieces, to give the illusion of maple inlays. The OP's cue had just inlays, which I've still yet to see in a Balabushka with a 3 inch butt sleeve. Not that one doesn't exist. I just haven't seen it.
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Here you go.....Grassley had this one a while back.
 

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And this looks to be another that Dick had/has.
 

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I guess I should have made it more clear by saying plain inlays. The first picture has diamond marquetery, which comes pre-assembled. The sleeve pretty much had to be 3 inches to accommodate it. The second comes close, I will admit, but that large engraved inlay has a lot to do with the sleeve length as well. Not that they don't exist, but let's put it this way, I haven't seen one with just dots and diamonds that was 3 inches.

I guess we could say that George's Golden Balabushka had about a 28 1/2 inch buttsleeve, as the whole thing wasn't wrapped, but that would be stretching it a bit. I think we would agree that his plain dot and diamond inlayed cues had butt sleeves usually smaller than those pictured. Hope nobody is angry that I thought it was a Klein based on that.
 
it looks like a george balabushka to me

it makes me want to buy it from you
especially if everything is original

including the balsis part
and it looks that way to me

please send me a price

i have had people tell me that the Bushkas were good in their day,
but that day has passed

to that i say "poo bah"

i need that cue
 
WildWing said:
Hope nobody is angry that I thought it was a Klein based on that.
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Not sure why anyone would be. A cue maker is going to make what the customer wants (if they are a custom cue maker). If a customer wants a 3" butt sleeve, I am sure any cue maker would make it just that way. For instance, I have a Klein with a butt sleeve just a little over 2" and using a bit different nickel rings (to be more authentic) than most cues of this style.

Another example I could use is the fact all of John Davis' blanks made now have the points up quite far in the forearm. If they see my more recent Davis blank, with the points 3" lower in the forearm than all of his others, they might think it is not a Davis blank, if they were to judge authenticity on just what they have seen. But that does not make it any less a Davis blank than any of the others. I ordered it that way.
 
Excellent Classy cue

Sean This is one sweetheart of a cue. I love the old school cues. Congrats my friend:thumbup:

Chris:smile:
 
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