Something has to go
- Thread starter RascalDoc
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Yeah that top one looks great!!
not an option. No kids. Wife is staying. Whats a thought though..... I guess.....
Sell the most expensive Cue
Sell whatever someone offers to buy. Easier that way.
Nick
Sell whatever someone offers to buy. Easier that way.
Nick
go
I say the Rauenzhan. Now we have to find a way to make a deal.
I say the Rauenzhan. Now we have to find a way to make a deal.
Well you can always get another wife, finding good cues can be really tough sometimes.....
Just trying to help,
Ken
Not surprising. Jerry makes accurate, quality cues.
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Just as FYI......Jerry let me know that the last two cues of this special edition Bushka series are almost completed.
I'm looking forward to seeing Mike's cue that should really be striking........Mizerak's original Balabushka cue only used a single dove inlay
which I always felt rendered the look and overall design unsymmetrical. IMO, the design would have looked much better if it had used 4 inlays.
Tim is cutting the dove inlays for Jerry and if I recall correctly, he also cut the dove inlay for George Balabushka as well.......that's really unique.
Anyone interested in getting a great looking Jerry R. cue, well, here's your chance to own one of these special edition cues & Jerry's cues do hit great!
Matt B.
I'm looking forward to seeing Mike's cue that should really be striking........Mizerak's original Balabushka cue only used a single dove inlay
which I always felt rendered the look and overall design unsymmetrical. IMO, the design would have looked much better if it had used 4 inlays.
Tim is cutting the dove inlays for Jerry and if I recall correctly, he also cut the dove inlay for George Balabushka as well.......that's really unique.
Anyone interested in getting a great looking Jerry R. cue, well, here's your chance to own one of these special edition cues & Jerry's cues do hit great!
Matt B.
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Well, George would have used the original dove inlay in the early 70s for Mizerak's cue, more than 40 years ago. You might want to rethink the timing on this one.
I am just passing along what he personally told me......I try not to doubt anyone's words unless, or until, I have reason to doubt them.......that's what the man said and that's what I wrote.......maybe he'll chime in and straighten this out because that's what he stated to me last year after a couple of Mizerak Dove Cues got ordered. He and I had been chatting about the Bushka cues Jerry had underway and at that time he revealed he was making the dove inlays for Jerry just like he said he made for Steve Mizerak's pool cue.
Matt B.
Matt B.
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If it helps any, the Miz's first (of two) cues was made in 1966. He was using the Dove cue professionally as early as 1971 in old photos (maybe a bit earlier). So this would put a dove being made in say 69/70 as his second cue.
To keep this thead relevant, the Jerry Bushka design gets the attention, where the others don't seem to. Draw your own conclusions.
For your post, yes, it helps, it's exactly right. As a high-schooler in 1970 through 1973 I saw Steve playing with the Dove Bushka at Jack and Jill's, owned by Bill (Weenie Beenie) Staton in Arlington, Virginia, during that time frame, as Beenie did tournaments then.
This thread aside, as I think some febrile minds both miss-communicated and possibly mis-interpreted some facts, regarding the production of Balabushka cues. I'm not drawing any conclusions.
To put it into perspective though, if anybody gave help to George Balabushka in 1969 or 1970, he would have to have some pretty remarkable skill. He would have probably been at least 30 to 35 years old. That would make him 75 years old today, maybe 80. Does anybody really claim that title, to have helped George Balabushka? I haven't heard it to this date.
I've heard all kinds of theory, but aside from buying blanks from Burton Spain and Gus Szamboti (John Davis as well?) I haven't seen anything credible that indicates he had help from anyone else. I've talked to cuemakers who visited him, and George wouldn't tell them anything, let alone accept help. Yet, these occasional stories come forth.
Not trying to draw ire, just trying for some fact as well as simple math for others.
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