Show your true Merry Widow and opinion of play!

[Shooter08]

Show your Merry Widow, one piece butt, wrap or wrapless, no rings or inlays. How does it play compared to pointed cues or plain janes, different wood for forearm, handle and butt sleeve, by the same builder?

 

[Birk1]

couple of Jake Hulsey one-piece Merry Widow cues - with inlays ...play is good (obviously )

Ryan

 

[bbb]

here is an african blackwood merry widow by paul dayton with a phenolic sleeved wood to wood joint and an after market EE wrap
it hits very solid and is a great player
(for the record....that is not paul's hand....)

 

[Shooter08]

Is it a true Merry Widow? Butt being one piece of wood? So far nobody has come through with one. Thx, Shooter08

 

[Jedco]

A 60" merry widow made by Chuck Starkey. Beautiful, simple design, and plays great!

 

[Shooter08]

Merry widows are one piece butts with no joinery, can have a channel for a wrap. Plain Janes can have fancy rings and forearm/handle/butt sleeve. Both have no points.

 

[Biloxi Boy]

I thought I understood the OP's proposition, but many of the responses prove (as my wife tells me all the time) I don't know a #(%*!)# thing.

 

[ribdoner]

I thought I understood the OP's proposition, but many of the responses prove (as my wife tells me all the time) I don't know a #(%*!)# thing.

we're never to old to learn

 

[Hirsty]

Does the one on the right count?

My playing cue is a Meucci SS-15, 19 oz, antique stained maple butt, Irish linen wrap that is lacquered (I like that it has a feel of a wrapless cue with the aesthetics of a wrapped cue), 11.8 CF shaft. It is a stiff cue with an effortless hit.

 

[Shooter08]

Does the one on the right count?

My playing cue is a Meucci SS-15, 19 oz, antique stained maple butt, Irish linen wrap that is lacquered (I like that it has a feel of a wrapless cue with the aesthetics of a wrapped cue), 11.8 CF shaft. It is a stiff cue with an effortless hit.




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If the the whole butt is one piece of wood than I would think you meet the requirements as the butt cap and joint appear to have the rings imposed and they are not separate.

 

[axejunkie]

I think this qualifies. One piece rosewood Rick Howard. Plays very stiff, has that bumperless sound which I'm not really into. I don't have the original shaft for it. Have used it for breaking and it does the job well.

 

[erriep]

here is my player cue, a simple ebony/ black and white ebony merry widow made by Dave Barenbrugge I bought a decade ago , and that's still my player cue , now got some battle scars , but that's a player cue ... (thanks again to Martin Bick , you know why...)

 

[garczar]

Where is it written that a 'merry widow' has to be a one-piece butt? Virtually every MW i've seen used a multi piece butt section. My favorite were the Judd mw's. Fkng gorgeous cues. https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/judd-cues-wts-wtt.293456/

 

[Ģüśţāṿ]

Where is it written that a 'merry widow' has to be a one-piece butt? Virtually every MW i've seen used a multi piece butt section. My favorite were the Judd mw's. Fkng gorgeous cues. https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/judd-cues-wts-wtt.293456/

I dont have a copy so i cannot confirm the details, but apparently the billiards encyclopedia mentions this on page 197 (Post number 10 talks about it in the link). I've also seen multiple other persons mention this specific reference through the years.

B

Post in thread 'what is a merry widow cue?'

Aug 3, 2008

I thumbed through the "BILLIARD ENCYCLOPEDIA" & on page 197, it says that the BRUNSWICK catalog from 1923-24, has a "MERRY WIDOW" model cue. It has no points or inlays. It does have a wrap. By the way the word "point" in those days referred to the ferrule...JER

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[billiards_watch]

Mezz EC9

I like how they play. Just no nonsense beautiful wood and shoots well.

 

[garczar]

I dont have a copy so i cannot confirm the details, but apparently the billiards encyclopedia mentions this on page 197 (Post number 10 talks about it in the link). I've also seen multiple other persons mention this specific reference through the years.

B

Post in thread 'what is a merry widow cue?'

Aug 3, 2008

I thumbed through the "BILLIARD ENCYCLOPEDIA" & on page 197, it says that the BRUNSWICK catalog from 1923-24, has a "MERRY WIDOW" model cue. It has no points or inlays. It does have a wrap. By the way the word "point" in those days referred to the ferrule...JER

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Then i guess all the multi-piece butt MW's made were not MW's?? C'mon man.

 

[Ģüśţāṿ]

Then i guess all the multi-piece butt MW's made were not MW's?? C'mon man.

Multiple piece butts should be referred to as a plain jane, not merry widow. At least that my understanding. I don't really care about semantics too much, but this one caught my interest because I always thought a merry widow was any plain butt, and then I found that comment!

 

[Chopdoc]

This has been banged around before. Clearly the term has evolved over time.

If the cue has a wrap, how do you know if it has a handle section, unless you know the maker's methods?

 

[Sheldon]

It doesn't get much simpler than this. It plays great.
2 pieces of wood. Rubber on one end, plastic and leather on the other with G10 in the middle.
Oil finish

 

[Chopdoc]

It doesn't get much simpler than this. It plays great.
2 pieces of wood. Rubber on one end, plastic and leather on the other with G10 in the middle.
Oil finish

Very nice!

That thing needs a brown bumper IMHO.