One Weird Little Cue...(Cue Identification)

[Benelli]

So my wife sends me to an estate sale to buy two lots of 40 cookbooks she will never crack open, ever. And I find this cue lumped in with about 10 to 15 Mizarak's, Actions, and Players.

It was cheap so I bought it.

Get it home and notice the wrap is real exotic not pressed leather, the cue is a full splice, and the shaft is full splice with what looks like oak and maple.

I've never seen anything like it and was hoping some here had.

 

[Cuebuddy]

Shaft looks to be Ash into Maple.
Interesting for sure.
The blank and joint seems to be from a vintage import cue.

Probably reworked be a cue maker(Amateur?)
The shaft is cool, have you hit with it yet?

 

[Benelli]

Shaft looks to be Ash into Maple.
Interesting for sure.
The blank and joint seems to be from a vintage import cue.

Probably reworked be a cue maker(Amateur?)
The shaft is cool, have you hit with it yet?

It's a light cue for my taste, comes in around 17.5oz.

That splice in the shaft is so weird to me that I have not hit with it, kind of afraid too. Not that I'm some power monster I just don't know anything about the cue or its construction. Not sure if it was meant to be a player or a gift to Mr. Burns to hang on the wall...

 

[Cuebuddy]

It's a light cue for my taste, comes in around 17.5oz.

That splice in the shaft is so weird to me that I have not hit with it, kind of afraid too. Not that I'm some power monster I just don't know anything about the cue or its construction. Not sure if it was meant to be a player or a gift to Mr. Burns to hang on the wall...

Probably both. But that joint could make it feel different than todays cues. If the glue for the shaft splice is still griping then I bet it’s still sound. There is a lot of surface area in that union.

I would imagine that it may play a little stiff.

Cool cue. I have collected odd cues like that for years. I always wish I knew the back story.

 

[Benelli]

Probably both. But that joint could make it feel different than todays cues. If the glue for the shaft splice is still griping then I bet it’s still sound. There is a lot of surface area in that union.

I would imagine that it may play a little stiff.

Cool cue. I have collected odd cues like that for years. I always wish I knew the back story.

Ok you have inspired me, when I go downstairs after the kid has gone to bed I'll knock around with it!

 

[mikemosconi]

I believe that your cue is from Western Europe- Spain or Portugal. either made as a carom cue originally or possibly for pocket billiards- if it is 56 inches without the bumper- most probably for carom billiards. Some cues like that also made in South America.

 

[Benelli]

I believe that your cue is from Western Europe- Spain or Portugal. either made as a carom cue originally or possibly for pocket billiards- if it is 56 inches without the bumper- most probably for carom billiards. Some cues like that also made in South America.

So that's really interesting!

I went and measured it and it came out to just under 57 inches from tip to bottom of the cue not including the bumper.

I would not have considered a Carom cue since the two US three cushion cues I have are both 60 inches. But European Carom and Three Cushion are very different games to the uninitiated, which I am...

What are the characteristics that clued you into being made in Spain/Portugal and being for Carom?

 

[mikemosconi]

The bumper is Sampaio Portugal style- the pin in the shaft, the cue butt style, the shaft wood, my own past cue ownerships/ experience AND now the cue length under 57 inches / lots of West European made carom cues came in under 57 inches with pin in shaft.

 

[Benelli]

The bumper is Sampaio Portugal style- the pin in the shaft, the cue butt style, the shaft wood, my own past cue ownerships/ experience AND now the cue length under 57 inches / lots of West European made carom cues came in under 57 inches with pin in shaft.

Thank you very much the information is both interesting and will come in handy in the future!