.........Here are a few more Josswest cues....
Will Prout
There's one Bill McDaniel amongst the group. The Kling cue.
.........Here are a few more Josswest cues....
Will Prout
There's one Bill McDaniel amongst the group. The Kling cue.
You are correct, I was too engrossed in the pictures and didn't see the whole of the first post. How many arcade tables do you have now?
Just one 9-foot, six-legged restored table. My playing table.
I have over 20 of the small billiardette tables, but they are not Brunswick’s.
.........Here are a few more Josswest cues....
Will Prout
That box cue sure is special.
Regards
Scott
PM.....me, let me know if Strouds personal cue shows up I want to see it one more time. It had 4 diamonds in the butt,
set like you would in a ring. That cue was worth $5,000 in the late seventies. It was more of a collectors cue than a players cue, only because the diamonds
were not flush with handle by the butt end.
Howdy,
Hope all is well!
I still own your red/white/blue cue case with your name on the top from your year on the American team with Dave Matlock, etc....
I know the fella that owns the JW cue with diamonds. I will see if I can get a picture at some point and post it.
Will Prout
A few more of my Josswest cues.....
Will Prout
These cues bring back great memories of visiting John Wright just 45 min away from me and seeing all of the cues he had of Bill's.
One cue in particular, Study In Red, was my second favorite I'd seen from JW at the time. My favorite was an 8 point with loads of mop owned by a local player from the Chicago Heights Illinois area
named Louie Colquit (name might be spelled wrong)...
He used to spar with a fairly well known player, Ike Runnels,
ALL the time. One pocket, 9 ball, banks, whatever they could agree to... I always wondered what happend to that cue... Maybe Ike knows?!?
Very, very nice post.Here's 5 of mine =>
In Order:
1) One image. Early 1970’s basic 4 point, one of Bill's earlier cues. Genuine ivory ferrules on both shafts. Genuine ivory butt cap. Bought at a yard sale in Colorado Springs in 1988 for $80 with “alligator hide” case. The racks I have played with this stick is probably in the thousands. Shaft one finally developed a hairline crack at the ivory ferrule. Condition is "fair" at best, as it has been dinged and knocked around in bars and pool halls by me for the last 35 years. This remains my main shooting cue.
2) Two images.1980-1983 2 color 4 point. Has 3 shafts. Two are original Stroud shafts. The 3rd is a low deflection PREDATOR 314-2 shaft with the correct JW ring work at the joint. Genuine ivory ferrules on both shafts. Genuine ivory butt cap.
3) One image. Early 70's JW cue. This is a unique transitional cue when Bill began adding sleeve inlay work to his cues and more elaborate points on the butt section (points on his first cues were simply one piece dark walnut on maple forend). Tri-color points. Mother of pearl and maplewood inlay on ebony sleeve. Genuine ivory ferrules on both shafts. Genuine ivory butt cap. 2 matching shafts original to the cue. Snake skin wrap.
4) Three images. 1986. Ebony, mother of pearl, red and blue veneer sleeve inlay. Perfect linen wrap. Very nice piece of birds-eye maplewood on the forend. 4 ebony sharp points with color veneers (black/blue | red/blue). Genuine ivory ferrules on both shafts. Genuine ivory butt cap. 2 matching shafts original to the cue.
5) Three images. Early 1980's Stroud cue. This is the fanciest Joss West cue I own. Very nice sleeve inlay. Tri-color points. Elaborate ebony and mother of pearl points and sub-point inlay on forend. Ebony, mother of pearl, and maplewood inlay on sleeve. Incredible birds-eye maplewood forend. Genuine ivory ferrules on both shafts. Genuine ivory butt cap. 2 matching shafts original to the cue.
I have collected dozens of cues over the years and I still have most of them, but I believe nothing compares to the ones Bill made. He is missed by so many.
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