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Here is a picture of a cue that came to me via e-mail. The e-mail title read... Balabushka.....

The body... "I have an original balabyshka for sale it had belonged to my grandfather and I feel it's time it went to some one that might respect it more then me"

So I open the picture and this is what I see. So I e-mail answer.. Sorry, I don't know who built your cue but it wasn't George Balabushka. I get snippy reply saying.. "It was authenticated before my grandfather's death though but that's your opinion sorry for waisting your time"

So at this point you know I levied a wise a$$ remark.. I get this quite a bit, and at SBE it was at least 5-10 times a show. Sean will vouch that people do not like hearing they don't have a retirement cue, or something only worth 100 when they thought is was 15k especially after they paid the show entrance fee and spent all the time to cash in....

People who accept the news, are usually cool about it. But I do get guys who for some reason find it insulting that I just told them something they didn't want to hear. I thought you would enjoy my pain.. lol

But it did get my juices flowing this AM... lol

JV
 

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I get you, Joe. There has been more than one time I've told someone with a cue that he didn't have exactly what he thought he had, and the answer usually is, well, that's your opinion. Usually others with knowledge chime in as well, and that's what makes the forum great. The knowledge does tend to surface, so no need to worry about anyone taking your job. This one was pretty funny and obvious, I have to admit.
 
Lol Joe

Word. Can sure get some mighty funny things at times. :)

I like when you try to be helpful to people inquiring about what their cue is on facebook, after people say it's a Palmer, Adam, Viking, etc. You tell them and then the bantering continues on about how it's for sure a Palmer, Adam, Viking, etc.

Nice Robinson, give you $400 for it. :wink:

bnall said:
Didnt George always sign the forearm of his cues? ☺
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Only the expensive ones !!!!
 
As common as that may be, the number of guys who inherited a "genuine Balabuska" from dead grandpa's closet is dwarfed by the number of guys who paid their way through college "by hustling pool"..

TW
 
No One Likes Disappointment.......

"The truth shall set you free.".................Funny how it turns out that some folks apparently don't want to be set free.

Sean at Cue Addicts set me straight in my recent post about my Owen cue's Bushka rings and I really didn't want to hear that.......but I really needed to. I listened attentively, even though auditory skills weren't needed. All one has to do is read his post and it was well intended but nonetheless it corrected my misunderstanding about inlays.

In fact, last week I called Bob and asked if the ivory squares in my Bushka rings were inlays versus say the boxed propellers in the sleeve. Bob explained what he had to do to make these rings and my goodness, what a pain in the ass it was to undertake segmenting the ivory squares with thin black veneers. Essentially, he was creating inlays in a ebony wood sleeve that were eventually sliced as rings. This was admittedly detailed workmanship but technically, the ivory was not laid directly into the cue's forearm or sleeve like inlays are typically done. The rings were made separately as a section of ebony wood with the ivory laid into the ebony and then sliced off as a rings that were added to the construction of my pool cue.

I really didn't want to be corrected on my misstatement in my cue post but the truth shall set you free......the guy with the fake Balabushka.....it's not a fake .......it's just not a Balabushka cue and the provenance he attaches to the cue being a original Balabushka is erroneous.......he didn't want to hear that.......and I still want to believe the ivory Bushka rings are inlays.....but each of use needed to hear the stark reality of the truth.

Sean, I'll call you sometime in the future for cue advice but remember to tell me I'm right even when I'm completely not......I suppose it's better to steer some people wrong rather than risk hurting their feelings......Uh, I don't think so!

Look.....it's this simple........Do not ever ask any question when the possible answer might ever be one that you disagree with. Heck, if you were so dead certain on the answer, I guess you really never even had a question.....you just want people to agree with you........Duh. In any event, Sean was merely trying to set me staright and that's what he was doing with the guy with the fugazzi Balabushka cue.

Matt B.
 
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Thomas Wayne said:
As common as that may be, the number of guys who inherited a "genuine Balabuska" from dead grandpa's closet is dwarfed by the number of guys who paid their way through college "by hustling pool"..

TW
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This is so true!

If I had a dollar for every time someone has told me that I could buy a real Balabushka!


Royce
 
Thomas Wayne said:
As common as that may be, the number of guys who inherited a "genuine Balabuska" from dead grandpa's closet is dwarfed by the number of guys who paid their way through college "by hustling pool"..

TW
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Or strippers who are paying their way through college?

:rolleyes:

Ken
 
Bavafongoul said:
"The truth shall set you free.".................Funny how it turns out that some folks apparently don't want to be set free.

Sean at Cue Addicts set me straight in my recent post about my Owen cue's Bushka rings and I really didn't want to hear that.......but I really needed to. I listened attentively, even though auditory skills weren't needed. All one has to do is read his post and it was well intended but nonetheless it corrected my misunderstanding about inlays.

In fact, last week I called Bob and asked if the ivory squares in my Bushka rings were inlays versus say the boxed propellers in the sleeve. Bob explained what he had to do to make these rings and my goodness, what a pain in the ass it was to undertake segmenting the ivory squares with thin black veneers. Essentially, he was creating inlays in a ebony wood sleeve that were eventually sliced as rings. This was admittedly detailed workmanship but technically, the ivory was not laid directly into the cue's forearm or sleeve like inlays are typically done. The rings were made separately as a section of ebony wood with the ivory laid into the ebony and then sliced off as a rings that were added to the construction of my pool cue.

I really didn't want to be corrected on my misstatement in my cue post but the truth shall set you free......the guy with the fake Balabushka.....it's not a fake .......it's just not a Balabushka cue and the provenance he attaches to the cue being a original Balabushka is erroneous.......he didn't want to hear that.......and I still want to believe the ivory Bushka rings are inlays.....but each of use needed to hear the stark reality of the truth.

Sean, I'll call you sometime in the future for cue advice but remember to tell me I'm right even when I'm completely not......I suppose it's better to steer some people wrong rather than risk hurting their feelings......Uh, I don't think so!

Look.....it's this simple........Do not ever ask any question when the possible answer might ever be one that you disagree with. Heck, if you were so dead certain on the answer, I guess you really never even had a question.....you just want people to agree with you........Duh. In any event, Sean was merely trying to set me staright and that's what he was doing with the guy with the fugazzi Balabushka cue.

Matt B.
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Matt, I'm not sure I understand my being mentioned in this post or even remember what we discussed. :confused:
 
You know

With a Cue like that you can always take up staking tomatoes!
There's a job.
Nick :)
 
Nothing ruffles my feathers more than the idiots claiming they Minnesota Fats' personal cue, when it's a $10 department store special with that brand name.

He got it from his Grandfather, so it must be real, right? So many ignorant people... lol
 
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I encounter something similar with Palmers, except it is usually regarding values.
 
IT Seemed Like.....

cueaddicts said:
Matt, I'm not sure I understand my being mentioned in this post or even remember what we discussed. :confused:
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After the other fellow reacted negatively towards your review of the cue he thought was an original Bushka, I recalled the time you nicely pointed out that my reference to the ivory stitiches in one of my cues' Bushka rings as inlays was probably incorrect to refer to them as such. You then went on to explain how Bob would have made the rings separately and added the finished, assembled rings into my cue's build.

So there I am thinking that I'm pretty savvy & knowledgeable about cues and then you point out that my understanding of how my cue was built was likely flawed, although you never used that term. Well, I really didn't want to hear anything like that but I needed to in order to improve my comprehension of cue construction. I contacted Bob to verify how he made my cue. I should also point out that you were nice enough to leave some wiggle room in your post by writing you couldn't state with certainty how Bob actually made my cue and so maybe the ivory in the rings was inlaid into the forearm.

The bottom-line turned out that you were right and down deep, I really didn't want you to be correct. Instead, I wanted to be right and you to be wrong, however, that wasn't the outcome. And so by you straightening me out about inlays, I benefited from your post about my cue's Bushka rings. Hence, the truth shall set you free......from misimpressions & misunderstandings........the same can be said about the guy with the fugazzi Balabushka.......he didn't want to hear that from you.
Although it really should have, this time the truth did not set him free....... regardless, he'll find out sooner or later that you were right.

Matt B.
 
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There are many instances where they have the ID wrong, or the value they have in their mind was from 1998 or 2003. In those cases I tell them they should have sold the cue then, and not waited. I have a ton of baseball cards I wish I sold in 1992 and maybe that will come back....

There is no good way to say grampa, or uncle bill, or whomever left you an Asian cane cue that is NOT rare, and just because it says Japan, and not made in Japan, doesn't mean diddly. When I get a real mystery cue and I roll it, I usually say this cue was made in Australia right?

People have no sense of humor... :D

JV
 
Thomas Wayne said:
As common as that may be, the number of guys who inherited a "genuine Balabuska" from dead grandpa's closet is dwarfed by the number of guys who paid their way through college "by hustling pool"..

TW
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Hey now! How about my true life story. I now own a real authenticated Balabushka and I also paid my way through school hustling pool. It was while I was in my teens and I was getting my "degree in law" as my aunt called it. Since food was free in Reform School, AKA Juvenille or Youth Dentention Center, I just had to play pool to win more cigarettes. :)
 
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