Hi everybody!
As the title says, I´m searching for some infos on a pool cue I got my hands on. But since I´m a snooker player, I`m not that familiar with pool cues, brands etc., so I hope someone here can help me.
But at least I can tell you the backstory on how I found this piece:
My name is Chris, and I`m from Austria, Klagenfurt (hometown of Albin and Jasmin Ouschan) and I`m working in a hotel in a near town.
Although this hotel is quite new, there is still an old building next to it, which was the original hotel and dates back before 1860. Well, they want to tear off the old and not used hotel and since there was till some stuff in there, we decided to look through the rooms to see if there is something in there which still can be useful.
And there I found said cue. Obviously it is nothing fancy, has a bit of a curve in it and I guess it is some kind of house cue, but I still think it is a bit uncommon. I don`t really know how old it is, but since the building wasn`t used for at least 40 years and we found much older stuff in there...well, I guess it is quite old.
It is a one piece cue, and has some nice decorations on the shaft which go from the butt up to about 25 centimeters before the tip (never seen it go up that long). These decorations are wooden inlays in three colors (black, brown and green) and build up a pointy pattern on the cue. From my experience with snooker cues I`d say the main shaft is maple wood (as ash has a visible grain). Overall the cue feels quite heavy and has a leather tip but no ferule. Diameter of the cue just under the tip is about 13,5mm.
On the butt there was an inlay, which i guess showed the brand name, but unfortunately this part already dropped out. The area around this spot is flattened, so the handle isn`t totally round.
I also made some photos:
I´m not really interested if it is still worth something, but since I "rescued" it from being thrown away, I wanted to do a bit of research.
Thx in advance
As the title says, I´m searching for some infos on a pool cue I got my hands on. But since I´m a snooker player, I`m not that familiar with pool cues, brands etc., so I hope someone here can help me.
But at least I can tell you the backstory on how I found this piece:
My name is Chris, and I`m from Austria, Klagenfurt (hometown of Albin and Jasmin Ouschan) and I`m working in a hotel in a near town.
Although this hotel is quite new, there is still an old building next to it, which was the original hotel and dates back before 1860. Well, they want to tear off the old and not used hotel and since there was till some stuff in there, we decided to look through the rooms to see if there is something in there which still can be useful.
And there I found said cue. Obviously it is nothing fancy, has a bit of a curve in it and I guess it is some kind of house cue, but I still think it is a bit uncommon. I don`t really know how old it is, but since the building wasn`t used for at least 40 years and we found much older stuff in there...well, I guess it is quite old.
It is a one piece cue, and has some nice decorations on the shaft which go from the butt up to about 25 centimeters before the tip (never seen it go up that long). These decorations are wooden inlays in three colors (black, brown and green) and build up a pointy pattern on the cue. From my experience with snooker cues I`d say the main shaft is maple wood (as ash has a visible grain). Overall the cue feels quite heavy and has a leather tip but no ferule. Diameter of the cue just under the tip is about 13,5mm.
On the butt there was an inlay, which i guess showed the brand name, but unfortunately this part already dropped out. The area around this spot is flattened, so the handle isn`t totally round.
I also made some photos:
I´m not really interested if it is still worth something, but since I "rescued" it from being thrown away, I wanted to do a bit of research.
Thx in advance
