Finger Jointed handle area?

Rayn cues said:
This is the first time i ever replyed,or wrote anything.But i am a regular reader of the forum. I live 20 min from Tom.I buy some of his stuff. his stuff is not seconds.And a realy nice guy to deal with.IM making two cues with his blanks now and havnt run in to no problemds yet.
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Welcome to posthood Rayn.

Kelly
 
brianna187 said:
they came tom vegh in Cleveland selling parts on ebay there imported cue blanks seconds
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I have talked to Tom many times and even bought some of his products he sells on ebay.. According to him everything he is selling came from Mail cue company before they moved there operations over seas.. So everything that he is selling was made here in the USA..
 
I was under the impression that Mali Cues went out of business though they still sell cloth. When is the last time you saw a new Mali cue for sale?
 
KJ Cues said:
I was under the impression that Mali Cues went out of business though they still sell cloth. When is the last time you saw a new Mali cue for sale?
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I have seen a few new Mali's but not very many full splice $185
 
Mali cues was bought out by Competition Sports in New York a few years ago. I believe they continued making cues there for awhile and then quit and started having them made for them in China. I've never seen a full/splice Mali cue. They used to build them with a very weak A-joint design and would often break there, about an 1/8 inch under the wrap. I've repaired at least a dozen that broke in the same place. They built them similar to a Black Boar. They would join the handle to the prong and when the cue was at the final size or near it they would use a straight router bit and cut the groove for the points. They would glue the points and veneers in and then just fill the rounded Chanel behind the points and under the wrap area with Bondo.

Dick
 
Nice thing about them, they are pretty easy to fix. There's usually enough handle sticking out of the forearm to cut a tenon from.
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If as they say, 'a picture is worth a thousand words', this one speaks volumes. Thank you Sheldon, you know just what to say.
 
Would have to ask Sheldon to be sure, but If I remember correctly that cue He has pictured got ran over by a car or something.

Greg
 
Sheldon; that Q you have pictured looks like there was very little glue absorbtion. That appears to be a bad glue job, not a failure of the finger joint. ...JER
 
BLACKHEARTCUES said:
Sheldon; that Q you have pictured looks like there was very little glue absorbtion. That appears to be a bad glue job, not a failure of the finger joint. ...JER
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It broke. Ran over by a car while in a case iirc.
Joey~Will stick to big threaded wood tenons ~
 
BLACKHEARTCUES said:
That appears to be a bad glue job, not a failure of the finger joint. ...JER
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My thoughts exactly. There is no way that those fingers come apart like that if they are glued properly. It looks like several fingers got no glue at all. Anyone can make crap with poor workmanship ... I'm a bit of an expert :o

Dave
 
DaveK said:
My thoughts exactly. There is no way that those fingers come apart like that if they are glued properly. It looks like several fingers got no glue at all. Anyone can make crap with poor workmanship ... I'm a bit of an expert :o

Dave
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The maker is in the hall of fame.;)
 
Mali cues are being made for Mali in China, and Mali is the distributer for these cues in the USA. I have been selling them for two years, and I buy them directly from Mali. The designs are a retro-classic design they call the vintage series, and they are really nice quality for import prodcution cues. The cues hit as well as a Joss Production cue, and they are balanced the same way. The cues have 5/16-14 Pin, and a piloted Stainless steel joint, V-Spliced Forearms (not inlayed points), No decals all inlays are real, and the shaft wood is the best quality I have seen on import cues. All shafts have a pro-taper and the ferrules are capped and screwed on.

Below are photo's of the current Mali Catalog:

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That appears to be a bad glue job, not a failure of the finger joint.

See what happens when you try to be frugal on glue.
It's hard to join something without glue that needs it.
 
conetip said:
That appears to be a bad glue job, not a failure of the finger joint.

See what happens when you try to be frugal on glue.
It's hard to join something without glue that needs it.
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I totally agree,in fact it looks like no glue was used.
 
I have been to the Mali factory when they were in the USA. They were using this joint in their cues.
 
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