Ivory spelling?

measureman said:
Yeah I don't see the Feds wasting time on a couple small chunks of Ivory.
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Thats not who does it. It the zellots who have nothing better to do then rat people out. I used to have a friend in a wheel chair who was a handicap parking space commando. He would park people in till the cops arrived. In Florida it is like a $250.00 fine. I can't believe no one shot him.
 
I think everyone is so uncertain what can really happen, that its an extra precaution. I sold a few cues recently and said something like the white is the "good stuff".

Its like gambling at the pool hall and discreetly trading the money, rather than throwing it on the table for all the bangers to see and then open their mouths to someone.
 
For a lot of things it’s not your talking on the internet that gets you caught up. Usually it’s something dumb done in real life, but then they can go back and find internetal evidence to show a pattern of nefarious villainy.

I don’t know how much help the ** give you but it can at least feel like opsec.
 
Speaking of "soap" ferrules, I am going to look at a few today when I go bang some balls.

There is a guy bringing some that he bought long ago and wants to get rid of.

He is also bringing some old Micarta ferrules like Southwest used.
 
HawaiianEye said:
Speaking of "soap" ferrules, I am going to look at a few today when I go bang some balls.

There is a guy bringing some that he bought long ago and wants to get rid of.

He is also bringing some old Micarta ferrules like Southwest used.
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Micarta or melamine?
 
HawaiianEye said:
Speaking of "soap" ferrules, I am going to look at a few today when I go bang some balls.

There is a guy bringing some that he bought long ago and wants to get rid of.

He is also bringing some old Micarta ferrules like Southwest used.
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Would be interesting to see what he has.
I believe Southwest and some other makers are still using the correct term "phenolic resin" when referring to the material used in the ferrules, butt caps and joints.
Micarta is the brand name not product name that Westinghouse registered but is not specific to the substrate materials used in thermosetting plastic "phenolic resin". The company is now Norplex-Micarta.
Too many now have adopted "micarta" as an all encompassing term for the phenolic resin materials which is just dumb and confusing since there are far too many types included such as carbon fiber, g10, canvas, paper, burlap, popcorn, melamine etc.
To me it's just lazy to use micarta instead of PRM phenolic resin material.
Not poking you specifically on this so don't get offended.
 
ibuycues said:
He never did any time whatsoever.
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I know a old guy here in la in the antiques biz. Has a $50M inventory. Mostly Victorian furniture. Super high end stuff.

Anyways about when Ernie got popped so did my friend. He had some little figurines that were part of a lot he bought at auction. They set that stuff up with the bigger pieces to make things look decorated. My friend doesn’t know ivory from ivory soap.

The ivory police were doing routine field checks and came across 3-4 little statues. 2” tall things. Not full carved tusks/ they hit them with the machine in the field to confirm they were ivory. That was over 3 years ago. $30,000 later in legal fees he’s still fighting it.

He had zero knowledge he was in possession of ivory, didn’t know he bought it, didn’t know it was displayed in a semi-public story(by appointment only. And he’s fighting like OJ did-well almost. Funny thing he’s known OJ over 50 years. Nother story.

Anyways he wood have been better off if those statues were made out of pressed cocaine (can they do that?) point is yeah that ivory action is serious biz. Glad I don’t have any anymore. I was in front of that. Saw it coming

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Fatboy
 
Fatboy said:
I know a old guy here in la in the antiques biz. Has a $50M inventory. Mostly Victorian furniture. Super high end stuff.

Anyways about when Ernie got popped so did my friend. He had some little figurines that were part of a lot he bought at auction. They set that stuff up with the bigger pieces to make things look decorated. My friend doesn’t know ivory from ivory soap.

The ivory police were doing routine field checks and came across 3-4 little statues. 2” tall things. Not full carved tusks/ they hit them with the machine in the field to confirm they were ivory. That was over 3 years ago. $30,000 later in legal fees he’s still fighting it.

He had zero knowledge he was in possession of ivory, didn’t know he bought it, didn’t know it was displayed in a semi-public story(by appointment only. And he’s fighting like OJ did-well almost. Funny thing he’s known OJ over 50 years. Nother story.

Anyways he wood have been better off if those statues were made out of pressed cocaine (can they do that?) point is yeah that ivory action is serious biz. Glad I don’t have any anymore. I was in front of that. Saw it coming

Best
Fatboy
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California is tough action because it is an international point of entry/exit.
 
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