Scruggs experts I need help
- Thread starter henchmen3
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If you mean just the buttcap right at the end, it looks like linen-based phenolic. Some pieces don't turn solid black sometimes and the linen will show thru like this.
Dave
Yup
Yup very true but when Mike made them I've never seen one that didn't turn straight black. I've seen him cut them off and redo them when not satisfactory
Yup very true but when Mike made them I've never seen one that didn't turn straight black. I've seen him cut them off and redo them when not satisfactory
Deffinatly black phenolic..
Chris
Chris
I agree with you, it appears to be black linen based phenolic and the color isn't jet black to cover the linen which is showing through. When black linen based phenolic is turned down on a lathe sometimes the threads show and one trick to prevent this is to dye the linen prior to spraying it with clear coat so the threads don't show.
James
My old one that I got straight from Tim was like that .
Hummmm
After careful review of the cue here and it's ad on eBay, 1979 Tim made it most likely and it was refinished is most likely the reasoning behind it. I'm still partial to :
1. I knew Mike didn't make this cue
2. It was refinished or repaired
Makes sense though it was like this cause of the age
After careful review of the cue here and it's ad on eBay, 1979 Tim made it most likely and it was refinished is most likely the reasoning behind it. I'm still partial to :
1. I knew Mike didn't make this cue
2. It was refinished or repaired
Makes sense though it was like this cause of the age
Shouldn't be any problem with it. In the early days of Joss (where Tim came from), and several early on his own, the available black linen definitely had a check pattern to it. Sometime later, the industry came out with what they called a double-black linen that had a darker look to it, though even that may not have erased the pattern completely.