Id cue please.

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Picked this sneaky pete up recently. Any idea who the cue maker is? Needs some work but hey practice makes perfect.

Thanks in advance
 

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No frills points I guess I should have said. I think the joint is phenolic but can't tell until I get the clearcoat off of it. It's short by about 2-3 inches.
 
Benelli said:
Looks like Mandarin handwriting on the butt.

I was going to say it looked Philipano but maybe it's Chinese or Taiwanese

When you use Google Translate on simplified Chinese it says the word is Acid
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looks like taiwan import to me.
 
Benelli said:
Looks like Mandarin handwriting on the butt.

I was going to say it looked Philipano but maybe it's Chinese or Taiwanese

When you use Google Translate on simplified Chinese it says the word is Acid
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Excellent work Benelli! I will take the clear coat off and preserve the sig. Not sure what they used but it has lots of bubbles in the finish and a lot of buildup and delam on the joint. The points have around 3/4 of an inch mismatch.
 
garczar said:
No clue what you mean here. Plenty of Taiwan-made cues have been plain janes.
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Language, not cue type.

Simplified Chinese is what Modern China uses as its primary language vs the more complex Traditional Chinese.

Taiwan not being interested in anything China wants to do only does traditional Chinese.

So my point was if the writing was simplified then it had to be mainland China vs a Taiwan maker.
 
Benelli said:
Language, not cue type.

Simplified Chinese is what Modern China uses as its primary language vs the more complex Traditional Chinese.

Taiwan not being interested in anything China wants to do only does traditional Chinese.

So my point was if the writing was simplified then it had to be mainland China vs a Taiwan maker.
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ok. whatever.
 
Billiard Architect said:
Because I am an amateurish cue maker that likes to practice on cheap cues I can pick up for cheap. 😀
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Fair enough.

You might want to consider what you expect out of the project, tho. If you just want to practice finishing, go get some cheap hardwood, turn it round and practice finishing. Cherry and walnut are relatively inexpensive, but both will show flaws in your technique.

If you want to end up with something, just make a plain cue using decent woods. There are a lot of woods you can get relatively inexpensively that will make a fine looking cue.

I don't intend to demean, but it just doesn't make sense to me to put any time into garbage. At best you will end up with better looking garbage. At worst you end up with garbage that is associated with you.

I'm looking at this project like this: It will take time and effort to refinish this cue. I wouldn't sell a cue that has points that are off by 3/4"--I don't want to be known for that. I wouldn't give the cue away--again, I don't want to be known for that. I wouldn't keep the cue in my pool room--you guessed it, I wouldn't want to be known for that. So, in my world, I would be looking at putting time and effort into something I would throw away.
If you want to learn something from this cue, dissect it. Find out what the maker did right (I'm guessing there isn't much), find out what they did wrong.
 
if you want to practice just buy some old off the wall cues from a bar or pool room. cut them and make a joint and sand down the shaft to a nice taper. fix he tip area.
this way you make a good hitting sneaky and can even sell them for a couple hundred.
 
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