He sure made great playing cues.
Gus Szamboti Beauty
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I prefer his, and all of the older school's, shorter and wider point geometry over the newer super long and skinny points. I just don't care for the newer cues where the points end like and inch from the joint ring. Beautiful and classic cue.
Perfect in every way.
Simple, clean and cool.
alydon
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I bought a cue directly from Gus - ordered the Fall of 1980 and received it Winter of 1983 when I was at Georgia Tech. My close friend who got me into playing pool ordered and received his cue from Gus the same time. The first call we made to Gus and asked him to make each of us a cue, he said "if you are serious, call me back in a year". We called Gus back one year to the day in the Fall of 1981. He then said, "Call me back in 6 months to make sure you are serious". We called Gus back the Spring of 1982 six months to the day and again asked him to make us cues. He said "Ok, how much do you want to spend?" We said $400 each cue. About 8 months later, we got UPS COD notices in our mailboxes. We had our Gus cues!
Mine was four black points with multi color veneers of natural, lime green and ebony with a notched MOP diamond at the bottom of each point. The butt had four matching notched diamonds. Green speck Irish Linen, two shafts with ivory ferrules and 13mm. I don't have a picture of that cue. Sold it around 1997 or so for $3k. Despite being in a Fellini case, the cue had developed a bend. Sold it to a Japanese collector who was in Southern Cal at a pool room I happened to be in one day. Cash.
I bought another Gus cue about 8 years ago, but didn't care for it - had 12mm shafts and sold it back to the dealer. I bought this Gus cue off this Forum a couple months ago and like it very much, except the elephant ear leather wrap. It is nicely done, but I want the cue the way it was made, so will have Pete or Barry re-wrap the cue in green speck linen.
Very nice cue, poolrod.
Timeless cues that play great.
Mine was four black points with multi color veneers of natural, lime green and ebony with a notched MOP diamond at the bottom of each point. The butt had four matching notched diamonds. Green speck Irish Linen, two shafts with ivory ferrules and 13mm. I don't have a picture of that cue. Sold it around 1997 or so for $3k. Despite being in a Fellini case, the cue had developed a bend. Sold it to a Japanese collector who was in Southern Cal at a pool room I happened to be in one day. Cash.
I bought another Gus cue about 8 years ago, but didn't care for it - had 12mm shafts and sold it back to the dealer. I bought this Gus cue off this Forum a couple months ago and like it very much, except the elephant ear leather wrap. It is nicely done, but I want the cue the way it was made, so will have Pete or Barry re-wrap the cue in green speck linen.
Very nice cue, poolrod.
Timeless cues that play great.
Mike Johnson(JensenCues) has always been a fan of Gus and has made a lot of those style cues. Here's mine: https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/my-jensen.531063/#post-6964494 Old-school to the max. Plays as good as it looks.