Just got in trade , Titlist

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Moved to for sale section , refinished and new wrap . Thanks Jim

Here is the cue I got in trade . I was told Paul Dayton did the convertion . Cue is not signed which is common for some cue makes on convertions . I pulled the wrap and am doing a refinish , but look what I found under the wrap . Cue will be for sale . nicely converted , but points are not even , probably shoots to left now , HUH .

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Cue was probably converted from a 2 piece cue and whoever converted it, Dayton or someone else, they added some length to the handle so they could make the butt long enough and get the points a little longer. These type conversions sometimes had very thin joints, which is another reason they would add material, do they could make a thicker part of the forearm the joint. Nice cue, other than the uneven points, which is very common in these older Titlist cues.
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I was thinking the same thing...that it started as a two piece. But it does not look like the points got moved up very much....so I am less certain of that matter.

What is clear is that some length was added and the points are uneven in spite of that. It may have been a diameter issue, or a length issue or both that led to the addition of a piece, hard to say.


All in all it's a cool cue but I have no idea if Dayton made it. You could always ask him...

I remember reading somewhere that his first cue was a Hoppe Titlist that he turned down. Nice to dream....eh? :wink:


Shoots to the left? Rotate the cue according to the deflection you want...that's how to compensate for uneven points...right? :)



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Thanks Doc , never thought about rotating it . I'm kinda old and lean toward the right most of the time so shooting to the left evens things out . Jim
 
Nice cue. As far as the points go this is the beauty of these old production cues. That would not bother me at all. They banged these out by the 10's of thousands-maybe 100's of thousands and it's amazing they are still solid after all these years. Just be careful which way you rotate the cue and factor in the earths rotation and which hemisphere you are in.
 
You cant believe how many are Anal about points . I had a cue retuned , one point was about 1/8th " short . He wasn't happy , I refunded him his money . Jim
 
Jim Baxter said:
You cant believe how many are Anal about points . I had a cue retuned , one point was about 1/8th " short . He wasn't happy , I refunded him his money . Jim
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Depends on the cue as far as I am concerned. The points on my old JOSS are not perfectly even, but I don't care in the least.

For a cue like the one in this thread, to me uneven points are just a part of the charm of the thing.




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Thanks Doc , I can remember when we did not want even points , they were machine made , we wanted hand made . How things change , HUh . jim
 
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Depends on the cue as far as I am concerned. The points on my old JOSS are not perfectly even, but I don't care in the least.

For a cue like the one in this thread, to me uneven points are just a part of the charm of the thing.



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Yep, kind of like an old les paul or stratocaster with some buckle rash on the back of it. "road character". I play bass guitar and have a high end used carvin bass that I bought from a "slap and pop" player, you can tell he wore a ring cause there is some wear on the body but it just makes it that much cooler.
 
I told my wife that could never imagine being married to someone as old as her . Didn't get any points that day . Jim
 
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