Hard TLC please advise

One point to consider: the OP did not say if he was the original owner, and he probably isn't. During its lifetime this cue may have been abused without the OP's knowledge. It may have been damaged internally in shipping. It may have been leaned against a table and fallen over unattended. There is no way anyone except those who witnessed the cause (if anyone did).

The OP didn't ask for opinions on the cause, he asked if it could be repaired. It can be - ANY cue can be repaired if price is no object - and he got some decent suggestions on how to get that done. Kind of think that should be that.

TW
 
pescadoman said:
You are absolutely correct and I should have thought of that. Now I feel stupid for asking the question....:(
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You should never feel stupid for asking a question. You ask a question because you don't know.
That 'stupid' question got you greater insight to what you were looking at.
It's one of the ways we learn.

Peace Out, KJ
 
Those damn termites, they live in the UPS cargo bins and always find a way to spoil the party.

Seriously, I lived a few blocks from Ray Schuler's Shop and was a dealer for him at my Billiards Cafe. He used a lot of non cored forearms with stained quilted maple on his floating point cues. There were a number of cues that split on a long bias a few inches behind the joint. On the cues I saw like this, I noticed that the wood looked and felt super dry.

I knew many guys in that shop and they saw their share of this.

BTW, this observation was the impetus behind my decision to core all my cues. Ray had a production shop, when a broken forearm came back, he never repaired it he just shipped out a replacement cue.

So maybe this cue had a super weak spot in the handle tenon that was very dry wood?????

Strictly speculation,

Rick
 
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