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i was reading Burton Spain's book, and i cant help see the uncanny similarities between the splicing arrangement that Spain talked about before his death (this legacy is now carry on by Hercek) and a old english cue designed by a innovator and made by Burroughs and Watts in the early 1900s . But the underlying reasons are different.
Burroughs and Watts JP Mannock.
In the turn of the century, a line of billiard cues used a kind of splicing for its pear shafted cues. The unusual method was to make the pear shaft shorter, hence less warpage as pear shafts are unstable... u could read about mannocks in http://www.cuesnviews.co.uk/andyhunter/ahuntermannock.htm
4 point fullsplice cue, but the handle was further supplimented by 4 butterfly tulip splices .
Modern Hercek Cue
4 point cue with 2 full butterfly splice
I entertained chopping one of the pear mannocks i had, and made a modern pool cue equivalent, with a similar splicing. unfortunately i never got around getting the right cuemaker, and i sold the mannock in 2002 for a princely sum of 500 pounds.
Please keep this a cue splicing discussion, and i am not a flame thread. i am not claiming that Spain plagiarised the idea. There are differences.
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Raist
Burroughs and Watts JP Mannock.
In the turn of the century, a line of billiard cues used a kind of splicing for its pear shafted cues. The unusual method was to make the pear shaft shorter, hence less warpage as pear shafts are unstable... u could read about mannocks in http://www.cuesnviews.co.uk/andyhunter/ahuntermannock.htm
4 point fullsplice cue, but the handle was further supplimented by 4 butterfly tulip splices .
Modern Hercek Cue
4 point cue with 2 full butterfly splice
I entertained chopping one of the pear mannocks i had, and made a modern pool cue equivalent, with a similar splicing. unfortunately i never got around getting the right cuemaker, and i sold the mannock in 2002 for a princely sum of 500 pounds.
Please keep this a cue splicing discussion, and i am not a flame thread. i am not claiming that Spain plagiarised the idea. There are differences.
Bgrds
Raist