my cue :)

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hiko

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hello everyone; new member here but long time reader of this site and forum. :) I'm looking forward to meeting all of you and participating on the board discussions :) ...
...thought i might start by sharing pictures of the cue i play with (apologies if the page loads a bit slow):

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this is my cue in its entirety; a tulipwood plain jane with speckled wrap. 58 inches, shaft and butt equal in length at 29@.

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a better view of the forearm; it's with this cue that i've come to appreciate the look of tulipwood- reddish/salmon streaks on pale yellow wood.

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a closeup of the ringwork, it really maches well with the black joint imo. the JPs are from the cuemaker who refinished it; the pic is slightly washed out so you might not see it but the maple is fiddleback. The balck stripe is ibano (a phillipine wood.) oh i shoulda taken a pic of the JP's top- it's amboyna burl! :)

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and the butt sleeve... the cuemaker who refinished it coated the inside of the butt cap too- brilliant idea considering the humidity here. (the wood was badly swollen after it arrived in the country so he had to turn it down a bit to be flush with the rings and buttcap.) Fwiw, the worn tip on the shaft is at the stage of it's lfe where i like it most ;)

Who made it? i'm not certain, someone here might know. The cuemaker who refinished it (bandido) had a hunch as to who made it but i'd rather not mention so as not to influence your guesses. Well it's almost a joke to attempt to ID a plain jane, but i hope the ringwork could help (assuming the ringwork is proprietary that is.) Your help would be greatly appreciated, thanks. :)
 
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Looks like it could be a Josey but I am really speculating. I hope you eventually let us know.

Regards,
Dave
 
Welcome to the Forum Hiko! I'm sure you will get a lot of info and meet some great people here.
Best of luck!

Michael Zimmerman "Zim"
owner
Zims Rack www.zimsrack.com
 
The rings are an Ed Young's, but however the joint doesn't seem to be the usual 3/8-11 southwest style brass pin. I own an Ed Young hoppe,and the rings are the same.
 
Nice cue.

I like those rings as well as the tulipwood.

It's hard to tell from the pictures, are those silver squares in the ring slots?

Bryan
 
indeed they are square 1mm @ side; square silver then square black (linen phenolic i presume- when held in sunlight the black sections has a weave pattern.) And a thin ring at the top and bottom of the squares to give that seemingly continuous look.

well i got the spare time (lots of it and patience lol!) now so i counted the silver rings:

shaft = 24 silver squares
join = 24
above the wrap= 30
below the wrap = 36
buttcap= 36

tiny, that's exactly the reason that i have doubts if mine is an ed young. the pin on mine is not the SW-esque brass pin like all the few EY's i see on the net. Mine is radial-like, i said radial like because the 3/8 pin on mine has threads virtually up to its tip. it has the small threaded hole at the center of the pin though (never really knew what that was for.)
Since when did ed young started using the SW pin anyway? (If it was, i presume, when DPK arrived then i guess the cue is one of his earlier works; if he's been using the SW pin ever since,that just means it's somebody else's creation then)

not much info on him in the net... hope you guys could shed some light on the guy; i would really appreciate it :)
 
Hiko, your radial pin appears to be the surgical radial pin. Not the Uni Loc's version.
I know Morris of Mid West cues was one of the first ones to use this pin. Phillippi used this pin as well.
The Uni Loc radial pin has a short pilot. Yours does not.
 
hinko,

you have without question at all an ed young cue, this pin that's in question to evryone is a pin that ed uses time to time...you won't find many just laying around but ed did uses this pin and it an ed young cue...

:)
 
hinko,

you have without question at all an ed young cue, this pin that's in question to evryone is a pin that ed uses time to time...you won't find many just laying around but ed did uses this pin and it an ed young cue...

:)
 
zim,

i do not have a website of my cues but your more than welcome to an e-mail copy of my current inventory.

many of the cues i have come from collections or directly from the maker. my inventory changes but i will always have the following makers Josswest, Schick, Tad, Szamboti, Cognoscenti, Gina, Hereck and other fine collectables.
 
It's only now that i've read this thread again cause i had my pc repaired...

...interesting stuff joseph_cues, a google search of "radial pin surgical " yields a few pages about facial reconstruction (which then links to a spanner wrench page in uniloc's site) and about bones... a groups.google search yields revelations like this: http://groups.google.com/groups?q="...&selm=36f218b5.1318836@nntp.alaska.net&rnum=1
if "twc" is to be believed, radial pin screws very well to human bone- sounds plausible but HOW are you really gonna react to stuff like these? hehehe

thanks for the assessment cuesmart, i've pm'ed you, hope you can give me the contact number of ed young as i'd like to order an extra shaft from him. :) (the former owner just sanded the tip flush to the ferrule when installing tips so now, the end diameter measures 12.10 and that's too thin for me. I suppose it was too thin for him too so maybe that’s the reason why he sold it to me… That cue actually has a relatively colorful history on how it arrived here in the country :) )
 
hiko said:
indeed they are square 1mm @ side; square silver then square black (linen phenolic i presume- when held in sunlight the black sections has a weave pattern.) And a thin ring at the top and bottom of the squares to give that seemingly continuous look.

well i got the spare time (lots of it and patience lol!) now so i counted the silver rings:

shaft = 24 silver squares
join = 24
above the wrap= 30
below the wrap = 36
buttcap= 36

tiny, that's exactly the reason that i have doubts if mine is an ed young. the pin on mine is not the SW-esque brass pin like all the few EY's i see on the net. Mine is radial-like, i said radial like because the 3/8 pin on mine has threads virtually up to its tip. it has the small threaded hole at the center of the pin though (never really knew what that was for.)
Since when did ed young started using the SW pin anyway? (If it was, i presume, when DPK arrived then i guess the cue is one of his earlier works; if he's been using the SW pin ever since,that just means it's somebody else's creation then)

not much info on him in the net... hope you guys could shed some light on the guy; i would really appreciate it :)
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ed always used a SW-type pin because his shop was set up by kershenbrock.
 
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