Looking for Szamboti cue gallery website.

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RoyL

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About a year or so ago, someone posted a link to a website dedicated to Szamboti cues. It wasn't a collector or a dealer's site, but a page someone put together of all the Szamboti pictures they had seen. Anyone remember this site?
 
RoyL said:
About a year or so ago, someone posted a link to a website dedicated to Szamboti cues. It wasn't a collector or a dealer's site, but a page someone put together of all the Szamboti pictures they had seen. Anyone remember this site?
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NO CLUE, BUT I'D ALSO BE INTERESTED IN THE SITE YOUR ASKING ABOUT......

I HAD CONSIDERED MAKEING A WEB PAGE OF ALL THE CUE PHOTOS I HAVE, BUT THEN REALIZED THAT SOME COLLECTORS WOULDN'T WANT PICS OF THEIR CUES ON THE INTERNET.
 
I could have sworn someone posted a link to that site on here. But AZ's search engine gives you a bunch of hits having nothing to do with what you are looking for.
 
I recognise a lot of those cues but what....pray tell.......is this?????
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Apologies to the site owner or indeeed the owner of this cue for taking the picture from there but I need to know more about this cue. Anyone got any ideas? Barry.....if you read this mate, shoot me an email.
 
RoyL said:
That's it.

I knew some cue aficionado would have that page listed on their favorites.

Thanks.
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Glad to share the link...
If there are other sites that someone would like to share, please let me know...I am a junkie for great cue pictures and do need a fix every now and then.
 
thediamond said:
I recognise a lot of those cues but what....pray tell.......is this?????
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Apologies to the site owner or indeeed the owner of this cue for taking the picture from there but I need to know more about this cue. Anyone got any ideas? Barry.....if you read this mate, shoot me an email.
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I've seen that cue before. There was a article about it on the web, maybe one of the cue dealers websites??? If i remember rightly its got some history behind it.
 
thediamond said:
I recognise a lot of those cues but what....pray tell.......is this?????
image052.jpg

Apologies to the site owner or indeeed the owner of this cue for taking the picture from there but I need to know more about this cue. Anyone got any ideas? Barry.....if you read this mate, shoot me an email.
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i thought i heard that it was a cue made by Gus and then Barry added the inlays in the forearm or something along those lines.......
 
skins said:
i thought i heard that it was a cue made by Gus and then Barry added the inlays in the forearm or something along those lines.......
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Yeah i remember, thats what the article was about.
 
Anyone ever remember what happened to that Bala-boti cue that one of the cue dealers had on their site in the late 90's?
 
Just got an email from Barry.......

Hi Simon

Okay, here's the story of that cue:

In the mid 80's Art Harris, who was a dear friend of the family, bought Nick Varners cue. He wanted to give it to his son's father-in-law, Don. Art asked Dad to clean it before he gave the cue to Don. My Dad decided to make the cue a little nicer by inlaying the ebony arcs and peacocks in the solid maple nose, right above the wrap. Art then gave the cue to Don as a gift. After my Dad and Don passed away, Art got the cue back and bought it to me. He said that Dad had wanted to inlay in the backend too. So, I added the inlays to the backend of the cue. Then Art came back and wanted the buttcap changed to ivory and the stainless steel joint changed to ivory. And make 2 new shafts.
When I finished, Art looked at it and said, "What else can we do to it?" I said, "we can put a leather wrap on it".
Art replied, "Do it"!

So now, you have a Joss cue worked on by Gus Szamboti and Barry Szamboti.

This is the cue that I call the Jo-Bo-Boti.

How AWESOME is that??????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Si
 
thediamond said:
Just got an email from Barry.......

Hi Simon

Okay, here's the story of that cue:

In the mid 80's Art Harris, who was a dear friend of the family, bought Nick Varners cue. He wanted to give it to his son's father-in-law, Don. Art asked Dad to clean it before he gave the cue to Don. My Dad decided to make the cue a little nicer by inlaying the ebony arcs and peacocks in the solid maple nose, right above the wrap. Art then gave the cue to Don as a gift. After my Dad and Don passed away, Art got the cue back and bought it to me. He said that Dad had wanted to inlay in the backend too. So, I added the inlays to the backend of the cue. Then Art came back and wanted the buttcap changed to ivory and the stainless steel joint changed to ivory. And make 2 new shafts.
When I finished, Art looked at it and said, "What else can we do to it?" I said, "we can put a leather wrap on it".
Art replied, "Do it"!

So now, you have a Joss cue worked on by Gus Szamboti and Barry Szamboti.

This is the cue that I call the Jo-Bo-Boti.

How AWESOME is that??????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Si
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Si

Thanks to Barry for filling us all in and thanks to you Simon for posting it up.
And yes it is AWESOME!

Myron
 
Great story Barry....

thediamond said:
Just got an email from Barry.......

Hi Simon

Okay, here's the story of that cue:

In the mid 80's Art Harris, who was a dear friend of the family, bought Nick Varners cue. He wanted to give it to his son's father-in-law, Don. Art asked Dad to clean it before he gave the cue to Don. My Dad decided to make the cue a little nicer by inlaying the ebony arcs and peacocks in the solid maple nose, right above the wrap. Art then gave the cue to Don as a gift. After my Dad and Don passed away, Art got the cue back and bought it to me. He said that Dad had wanted to inlay in the backend too. So, I added the inlays to the backend of the cue. Then Art came back and wanted the buttcap changed to ivory and the stainless steel joint changed to ivory. And make 2 new shafts.
When I finished, Art looked at it and said, "What else can we do to it?" I said, "we can put a leather wrap on it".
Art replied, "Do it"!

So now, you have a Joss cue worked on by Gus Szamboti and Barry Szamboti.

This is the cue that I call the Jo-Bo-Boti.

How AWESOME is that??????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Si
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Thanks Si. for posting up Barry email about this Jo-Bo-Boti cue :thumbup:
Kenny
 
thediamond said:
Just got an email from Barry.......

Hi Simon

Okay, here's the story of that cue:

In the mid 80's Art Harris, who was a dear friend of the family, bought Nick Varners cue. He wanted to give it to his son's father-in-law, Don. Art asked Dad to clean it before he gave the cue to Don. My Dad decided to make the cue a little nicer by inlaying the ebony arcs and peacocks in the solid maple nose, right above the wrap. Art then gave the cue to Don as a gift. After my Dad and Don passed away, Art got the cue back and bought it to me. He said that Dad had wanted to inlay in the backend too. So, I added the inlays to the backend of the cue. Then Art came back and wanted the buttcap changed to ivory and the stainless steel joint changed to ivory. And make 2 new shafts.
When I finished, Art looked at it and said, "What else can we do to it?" I said, "we can put a leather wrap on it".
Art replied, "Do it"!

So now, you have a Joss cue worked on by Gus Szamboti and Barry Szamboti.

This is the cue that I call the Jo-Bo-Boti.

How AWESOME is that??????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Si
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how awesome is that??? VERY! the best part to me is the cue looks great and is not "stuck" to "mirrored symmetry" which Boti's are often known to avoid......and may i say avoid very well.............:)

skins --------- knows if Barry thinks hard enough he might know why this was said....:wink:
 
I own several cues on that site, I asked Barry if he had ever seen that site and he never saw it. So while we were on the phone he pulled it up, I was luckey enough to have Barrys time and we went over about 75% of the cues on that site, he remembered alot of them and some of the sdtories behind them, about 3 months I fell into a big collection of Barrys many of which are on that site. Man it was amazing hearing Barry talk about them, I remembered alot of what he said,

look for the 8pt Barry with a SS joint that cue has a great story, i'll have to get Brrys permission before I tell it,



best Eric
 
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