Optical Illusion Cues...Any?

[Thomas Wayne]

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One of your earlier cues, I can't recall the collector, maybe Martino, had a spider web in the sleeve. What was interesting to me was the process used to achieve the look. To most eyes, the execution to get that look isn't what it appears to be. Pretty cool thinking.

Thanks for contributing here. This particular aspect of design and execution has always fascinated me. Great thread.

Paul

Paul,

Since you asked I took a quick look around, but could not find any pics of the Martino spiderweb cue. I did, however, find pics of my original spiderweb cue, shown below. This one, built in the late 80's, had the entire spiderweb machined out of Sterling Silver (!) The spider itself was 14k Gold, with small rubies for its "hourglass" belly and diamond chips for eyes.

In the mid-2000's Martino spiderweb cue, the web was Elephant Ivory and it did not have a spider.

TW

 

[RascalDoc]

In the early '70s I saw a lot of cues like that.
I was also into LSD at the time.
I decided I did not like acid.Gave it up.
never saw those cues again.

That's funny stuff right there

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