New Cue from Craig at Full Splice Billiards

manwon

"WARLOCK 1"
Silver Member
Hello Az, here is the latest cue I completed for a Customer. The cue was converted from a 1920's Brunswick one piece cue. The cues points and handle are some form of Mahogany Spliced into maple. The cues butt consists of Maple Burl with checked rings, and a single ring of synthetic Pearl. The has a 3/8-10 pin with checked rings also present at the cues joint. The cue weights 18.86 oz and is 58.8 inches long, and this cue is being delivered with a single shaft.

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Take care
 
Craig,

That piece of burl buttsleeve is so beautiful it looks like it is moving, blowing in the wind. Stunning work!

Will
 
The cue looks great. I'm curious about the use of the old house cue, how did the idea come about? Also, was the cue straight?
 
Craig,

Looks great - nice to see your recent work.

I like to let people hit with these old cues from the 1920's I have here. The cues tend to be butt heavy, but players are astounded at the purity of the hit. There's a lot of life in these aged cues!

Chris
 
nice cue

now if it only had a wood pin. just busting your chops craig, its a beautiful cue. chuck
 
it looks good but i'm thinking it's missing something. maybe inlays near or in the points.

i really liked the last batch you posted!
 
ibuycues said:
Craig,

That piece of burl buttsleeve is so beautiful it looks like it is moving, blowing in the wind. Stunning work!

Will

Thanks Will, I am greatful for the comments, especially coming from some one with your experience.

Thanks again
 
cuejunky said:
The cue looks great. I'm curious about the use of the old house cue, how did the idea come about? Also, was the cue straight?

Cuejunky, I use the old house cues because of the figure and the age of the wood. I can acurrately date these old cues with or without a lable by their specific charctoristics. The problem of warping is normally in the shafts, I have very fews problems with the cues butts. The cues I use are from the 1930's back to the 1880's, so the butts are very large, and can be easily re-tapered to remove any movement. The best part are the quality of the woods, they are normally around a 100 years old, so they are very very well cured and stable. The wood is also very well figured, and is very hard to find today.

Here are some photo's of some of my stock, currently I have cues separated by type and age. I have close to 350 of these old house cues to choose from.

The cues below are Brunswick 26 1/2 Pre-titlist cues and Brunswick Titlist cues, these are made from every kind of wood from purple Heart, to Brazilain Rosewood and Ebony.

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The cues pictured are Antique Brunswick Butterfly cues made from woods such as, Brizilian Rosewood through Gabon Ebony.

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The are plain Antique Brunswick house cues, that are made from very figured woods that range across the spectrim of woods.

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Just a shot of the main storage area.

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Hope this answers your question.
 
tikkler said:
Craig, That baby is HOT...HOT The butt is incredible.
Great work

Steve

Thanks Steve, I truly appreciate your post, and like the other gentleman, coming from some one like you It certainly means a lot

Thanks Again!!
 
TATE said:
Craig,

Looks great - nice to see your recent work.

I like to let people hit with these old cues from the 1920's I have here. The cues tend to be butt heavy, but players are astounded at the purity of the hit. There's a lot of life in these aged cues!

Chris

Thanks very much Chris, I know you appreciate these old cues as much as I do. I also have to agree that the wood in these cues does certainly have a very sweet hit to them. It is hard to beat 100 year old wood!!:)

Thanks Chris
 
New cue from Old cue

That is one of the nicest jobs on putting new life into an old cue I have ever seen.

Now you got me drooling all over my shirt and getting very curious about claiming one of the 350 other cues as my own.
 
desi2960 said:
now if it only had a wood pin. just busting your chops craig, its a beautiful cue. chuck

Thanks Chuck, maybe you can teach me how to build using a wood screw joint. I would love to learn how to do it, in fact I hope I can build cues as well as you do some day.

Take Care Chuck
 
CocoboloCowboy said:
So is the Cue for Sale, or are you just showing off you talent.
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Very Nice.

Thanks Cowboy, maybe you will interested in a very nice Cocobolo conversion that I will be building very soon. In fact I garrenty you most likely have not seen any Cocoloblo like I am going to use.

Take Care
 
ridewiththewind said:
Another very nice cue, Craig. It just keeps getting better and and better. :thumbup:

Lisa

Thanks very much Lisa, stop by my pool room / shop sometime!!

Take Care
 
poolplayer2093 said:
it looks good but i'm thinking it's missing something. maybe inlays near or in the points.

i really liked the last batch you posted!

Thanks, for your observation, you may be right, I might try that in the future.

Thanks and take care
 
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