help! identifying an older viking cue?
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The one with the none ball is an inexpensive import. Not much to say about it.
The Viking is probably from the nineties or eighties I am guessing. A lower level cue. I don't know the model.
A good shot of the pin (joint screw) might help, as well as whatever is under the bumper.
Price range? The one with the nine ball isn't worth much. Five bucks at a garage sale, whatever you can get on Ebay. In general any Viking should be a half decent shooter, so anywhere between $50 and $100 on Ebay would be fair I think, but the condition is rough so I would be concerned about that. It looks nicked up and the haft is filthy. The tip looks done. The ferrule has chalk lines on it from somebody that does not know how to use chalk. Is it straight? Clean it up and it would sell better if you know how to clean a shaft and ferrule.
The Viking could make a nice starter cue for somebody.
I usually don't touch the value issue because people usually think their cue is worth a lot more than it really is. But I figured I would say what I have to say on the matter here.
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The Viking is probably from the nineties or eighties I am guessing. A lower level cue. I don't know the model.
A good shot of the pin (joint screw) might help, as well as whatever is under the bumper.
Price range? The one with the nine ball isn't worth much. Five bucks at a garage sale, whatever you can get on Ebay. In general any Viking should be a half decent shooter, so anywhere between $50 and $100 on Ebay would be fair I think, but the condition is rough so I would be concerned about that. It looks nicked up and the haft is filthy. The tip looks done. The ferrule has chalk lines on it from somebody that does not know how to use chalk. Is it straight? Clean it up and it would sell better if you know how to clean a shaft and ferrule.
The Viking could make a nice starter cue for somebody.
I usually don't touch the value issue because people usually think their cue is worth a lot more than it really is. But I figured I would say what I have to say on the matter here.
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il clean it with some cue doctor later i just got it the other day from a friend who doesnt know much about pool i guess the 20 dollars i paid was worth it, and is there any kind of wax or something to make it look new again? and il have photos in a moment
20 bucks?
Yeah, great deal.
I got a Viking with veneered points and a Birdseye forearm for $5 so I win the cheap cue prize.
But I got it ithout a chaft. 
Anyway, yeah, clean it up. Don't use abrassives on it. Get the filth out of the grain, then burnish it. If you want to seal it, that can be done by hand as well.
There is a recent thread on sealing shafts in the cue makers forum. I would have a look at that. I do my own light shaft work and tips, but I am not a cue maker so I don't want to steer you wrong.
Have a look in the cue makers forum at that thread...probably some good ideas there.
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