Need help identifying old cue
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Taiwan cue
I think adam/helmstetter
cue
Rings scream Mali to me...
Rings scream Mali to me...
My first thought was Adams Japan.
Who knows? If not an import, possibly the late Wayne Gunn.
Where in the country did it come from?
Where in the country did it come from?
Without a doubt...
Looks like one of the models offered by Robertson in Flordia circa late 80s
Dale
It's been in north Carolina for at least 25 years. Before that no idea.
Exactly this.
Adam cues were made in Japan for a time and they did build some eight pointers like this. The buttsleeve screams McD and the Veneers don't even match the forearm! Also the joint rings are not really specific to any one cuemaker, so that's a tough call.
What an odd mutt of a cue you have!
The 5/16 x 18 thread and those old mircata ferrules had me also thinking that this could be a Wayne Gunn cue. The cue looks well put together, and those joint rings look like they could have been influenced by Rocky Tillis, Wayne's mentor.
In the late 80's, when Wayne was working at Robertson's Billiard Supply and operating his own shop out of Baker's Billiards in downtown Tampa, had an inventory of overseas splice blanks with both 4 and 8 points from which he cherry picked... I have only ever seen those Taiwan-blanks accented with orange veneers, but that doesn't mean those were the only colors he had. At one point Wayne was also getting blanks from Barton Spain, but this is clearly not one of those.
I can say I've never seen a W.G. cue with a buttsleeve design like that, which is copied straight from the McDermott D-14.
I have one Wayne's late-80's "not-so-sneaky" pete cues with the orange veneers and same joint pin that I got from him when he was running his own shop at Bakers. It still hits fantastic and is still dead-straight after all these years. The shaft wood and taper on W.G. cues has always been exceptional. In fact, Wayne turned shafts for many better-known cue makers over the years.
In the 90's Wayne Gunn and Terry Mcinery formed their partnership and switched to flat-faced 3/8 x 10 pin cues. Prior to that, most of his cues have piloted 5/16 x 18 pins.
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Steve Cook had a Gunn cue with a more ornate but similar butt sleeve design.
The ring work is crooked. I highly doubt an actual renowned maker built this.
When I had a tip put on the guy said they were old micarta.I'll try to put up a close up pic this evening. Thanks
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Not mine -- when I built cues like this in the 80's I "signed" by engraving my initials and date on the butt bolt. I built that type of butt sleeve, but there would have been four loops, not two. Finally, I didn't have that kind of filmstrip. The butt looks like several I used which were from Taiwan through Canada.