How bout this one??? WTF???
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On the other end.......
One of the best I ran into was back when I was just getting started. I use to buy old cues and either use parts for conversions or just hack them up to see how cues were made.
I had one that had a rattle, that I couldn't figure out so I just started cutting it up. What I found made me double over laughing. Instead of a weight bolt, they had bored out the butt and glued in (poorly) a 5" piece of concrete reinforcing rod and put a plug over the end.
One of the best I ran into was back when I was just getting started. I use to buy old cues and either use parts for conversions or just hack them up to see how cues were made.
I had one that had a rattle, that I couldn't figure out so I just started cutting it up. What I found made me double over laughing. Instead of a weight bolt, they had bored out the butt and glued in (poorly) a 5" piece of concrete reinforcing rod and put a plug over the end.
Funny stuff
Soon after the Taylor Made Drivers with the weight screws came out I golfed with a guy in my pool league. He had taken his off brand driver and drilled two wood screw into it similar to the configuration of the R series Taylor Mades. I nearly pissed myself when he showed it to me. It was one of the funnier this I had seen on a golf course. Now to have seen this pool cue with it's brass screw made me laugh and also made me think of that golf club as well.
Kevin
Soon after the Taylor Made Drivers with the weight screws came out I golfed with a guy in my pool league. He had taken his off brand driver and drilled two wood screw into it similar to the configuration of the R series Taylor Mades. I nearly pissed myself when he showed it to me. It was one of the funnier this I had seen on a golf course. Now to have seen this pool cue with it's brass screw made me laugh and also made me think of that golf club as well.
Kevin
Bill the Cat said:
When I lived in Hawaii I did that exact thing to a budwieser cue 5\8" rebar for a weight, I think I sold it here in California 10 years ago painted it white and put paintball stickers on it. That was the first cue I worked on second was a mohawk wjith a shaft split for 9" from the joint. 4 years later I finaled learned what cue repair realy was back then I was a traveling Dart player just learning how to play pool.
Craig
I cut one of those off last Thursday, shaking my head and laughing the whole time.
I met, talked and knocked some balls around before a tournamnet in Tulsa with Verl Horn and his brother Jess. Nice guys by the way....
Anyhoo, his ferrules were flat bottomed chunks of ivory, with a screw in them to attach them to the shaft.
I'd never seen it before (or since) but they seemed to hold up and hit fine.
Anyone else see this?
Anyhoo, his ferrules were flat bottomed chunks of ivory, with a screw in them to attach them to the shaft.
I'd never seen it before (or since) but they seemed to hold up and hit fine.
Anyone else see this?
(shudders, then quickly retreats from the thread)
dave sutton
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dirtypool40 said:
some palmer cues had a brass screw to just unscrew the old ferrule and screw on a new one if you needed a quick tip change
RocketQ said:
It looks like the ferrule on the first cue Effren used when he was known as Caesar Morales!!!!!!! Oh and by the way he kicked as with that cue!!!!!! Now that is really funny!!!!!!
I have seen a few of those cues, but it still amasing what some one who can play can do with it!!!!!
Yes. I have a cue made by Jim Ingram out of OKC. My understanding is that he also attaches his ferrules like you describe. The cue was made for, and used for several years by, Dave Matlock.dirtypool40 said:
BTW, I love the way the cue plays and it has a very unique sound when striking the cue ball
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