i buy these from an antique table restorer and its where i get 95% of my shaft wood. only about 10-15 % will be good enough for shafts, and on occasion i will find a couple of real good brw or ebony cues to use for conversions.
chuck
chuck
shaft wood - maybe a couple conversions
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Yeah, I've been doing the same thing for 30 years. I used to be in the table restoration business myself and accumulated a bunch of old cues and I have a couple of buddies that have crews that do the work now and bring me old cues all the time. The ones not worthy of using for a cue help me keep the place warm in the winter. I've burned a shitload of ramin wood in my wood stove. lol I also use some of the old junky cues to test CNC programs on. I always test fit anything I do with the cnc and make sure the programs run properly before I run them on "good wood". I've also used some of the old cues for handles. Some of them make very nice figured handles for Merry widow cues even. I hate to waste good wood. If it has no place in a cue it'll at least provide a few BTU's come winter.
You lucky devil . Nothing better than seasoned wood . That wood has to be well seasoned !!!
"As long as it is straight"
I've never seen one that is straight from those house cues.
They used green wood then.
Yeah, I don't get a lot of shaft wood from them but every now and then... If you cut them off just above the points and center them properly you can get a good shaft. By the time they are 50 or 60 years old, if they were going to move, they already would have.
I was thinking the same thing I got a corner full of them and not 1 even close to being able to make a shaft out it.
maybe 10%
good pickup
the only thing better than good wood,
is GOOD OLD WOOD
i'm 67 and that's what i keep telling the young women.
i have bought 500 of these cues from the same dealer and of the 500, i have got about 20 great shafts. old, tight grain, and dark in color. i cannot find this type of shaft any place accept in old cues. you are right i have yet to find one that was straight, but a few are straight enough to cut just above the points and retaper.
its just something about cutting a cue that might have been in a smoke filled, dim lit, old time pool hall for years, reusing a piece of wood that might have shot thousands of balls. recycling i dont think so. its just the best wood i can find.
chuck
good pickup
the only thing better than good wood,
is GOOD OLD WOOD
i'm 67 and that's what i keep telling the young women.
i have bought 500 of these cues from the same dealer and of the 500, i have got about 20 great shafts. old, tight grain, and dark in color. i cannot find this type of shaft any place accept in old cues. you are right i have yet to find one that was straight, but a few are straight enough to cut just above the points and retaper.
its just something about cutting a cue that might have been in a smoke filled, dim lit, old time pool hall for years, reusing a piece of wood that might have shot thousands of balls. recycling i dont think so. its just the best wood i can find.
chuck
Pardon me if this is the wrong place to ask, but I have a need for about 10 - 15 full splice cues for a project. They can be a little beat up, and all busted up on the shaft (I don't need all 58" ... just the bottom 40" or so with the splice). If any of you old-cue horders want to part with a few full splice lumps of wood drop me a PM please.
Dave
Dave
I remember some years ago when the BCA show was in I think Nashville a guy comes into the show and says his pool room has closed up and he wondered if anyone wanted to come and make an offer for everything. He talked to a lot of guys who didn't want to bother driving like 20 miles to look at a bunch of old equipment, plus they were busy with the show.
Long story short the guy who takes a ride over there ends up buying all his house cues for a $1.00 a piece. Do I need to tell you every one was a Titlest and he had like 150 of them. Although at the time maybe not the rage they are now but still quite a score.
that would be like winning the lottery!!
neat story :thumbup:
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