How to tell an early Meucci Originals from the release?
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Looks like the real deal to me, especially with the 'yellowing'.
Is that ferrule flared out or an optical illusion?
Is that ferrule flared out or an optical illusion?
One thing on those I discovered is there is a tendency for the ferules to crack just below the tip. On mine a cue maker just cut it back to just past the cracking. For me it plays better that way now and the little air gap is gone too. It hits slightly harder.
Btw, that is a nice pickup. A lot of those are pretty beat up now.
DrClaw
The Drowning Fish
I happened to be in the right place at the right time. Scored it for under $300.
Nice. I would have paid that too!
1989-90 is when they changed logos. Some of these were made later on with the newer script logo too. Confusion sets in because they made some cues around 2012 that had the old block-letter logo. IIRC most of these were made for/sold by Mueller's. They never were known for strong ferrules. They used thin wall abs shit that might break if you stared at it too long.
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I saw them selling on Ebay w/black dot shaft about 15-20 years ago and I was pissed.
So I set the seller a nasty message and it turned out to be Bob's daughter. She told me
to go jump in a lake. She was selling them as original Meucci's without saying anything about
remakes. So, they are out there and what I read was the only way to tell for sure is looking at the
letter "A", the remakes have no window in the top/middle of the "A". It's solid and ofcourse the
black dot shaft.
So I set the seller a nasty message and it turned out to be Bob's daughter. She told me
to go jump in a lake. She was selling them as original Meucci's without saying anything about
remakes. So, they are out there and what I read was the only way to tell for sure is looking at the
letter "A", the remakes have no window in the top/middle of the "A". It's solid and ofcourse the
black dot shaft.
Seems normal for that model even in good shape, I don't think they these models are valued much past being neat older ones from a nostalgic era of the cues.
Off topic, but look how nice the maple is on that shaft and this was not a high end cue. Goes to show how much demand has impacted supply along with conservation. Stuff these days is not as clean or hard. Better cues of the past had more growth rings and were better cuts (old growth). Very straight grain.
Predator's splicing shafts helped in that interim era until we got to CF where this is not an issue anymore.
Predator's splicing shafts helped in that interim era until we got to CF where this is not an issue anymore.
DrClaw
The Drowning Fish
I also have a Predator SP4 First Edition with the original 314 shaft and I have to agree. The quality:money ratio was a lot better back then. I have not bought a CF shaft yet so I don't know how that compares.