Rosewood kissin' cousins a George and a Gus...

[classiccues]

The above cue is an original George Balabushka. Rosewood Spain blank, brown, blue, natural Spain combo. Gold glitter band set under the wrap. All original at time of this photo.

The above cue is a Gus Szamboti rosewood Hoppe style cue. What is interesting is Gus used a similar ring above the wrap. Showing that even back then, styles ran very close. But this cue was refinished by Barry and is in pristine condition. The cue even had full matching shafts.

JV

 

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Those Are Awesome Examples.

 

[ridewiththewind]

Wow! Some great pieces of cuebuilding history there...thanks for sharing these, Joe. Gota love that old rosewood!

Lisa

 

[BillYards]

Love the "Oldies, but Goodies"! But I also fell over when I saw the James White "Ivory Insanity" cue (my name for it) on your site... Outstanding! The Palmer 21 tribute is a beauty too...

 

[classiccues]

Love the "Oldies, but Goodies"! But I also fell over when I saw the James White "Ivory Insanity" cue (my name for it) on your site... Outstanding! The Palmer 21 tribute is a beauty too...

The James White cue was gorgeous. We have a surprise coming from Jim for Valley Forge. But I will always love the classic styles but sometimes you have to let the cuemakers have a bit of say so as not to stifle creativity.

But thank you for the kind words and pretty soon I will post my new completed Fanelli.

JV

 

[poohkiller]

All these cues look beautiful! And what a Burton blank on that Balabushka! ;-))

I love that Palmer 21 very-very much too! And like you said, that JMW is 'insane'!!!