Sterling Silver Joint Collar?
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I have the same need for a cue restoration. I haven't contacted anybody about it yet. I was considering several. So, I am curious what response this post gets.
I would suppose any cue maker working with a metal lathe could make one from a piece of nickel silver round stock, which shouldn't be too hard to find.
I would suppose any cue maker working with a metal lathe could make one from a piece of nickel silver round stock, which shouldn't be too hard to find.
Op is looking for sterling silver? I think nickel silver is just stainless steel with a fancy name.
Is it?
DeeDeeCues
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Nickel silver
Stainless steel
Sterling silver
All three different metals.
Stainless steel
Sterling silver
All three different metals.
I stand corrected, copper nickel not stainless
Thanks, I am familiar with that terminology, and the fact that it is commonly misunderstood and misapplied.
I definitely should have been more specific, sorry about that. I am asking about a specific cue maker's part.
In the Palmer second catalog. I need this joint collar. You can see they call it "nickel-silver".
Nickel Silver, much softer than stainless silver. It's interesting that it takes on the color of nickel, rather than the copper. Many earlier cues such as Palmer used Nickel Silver for joints, though not joint collars. It shines up very nicely, and does a little tarnishing over time.
Yes, that tarnish is wonderful. It gives a nice warm patina that makes it very different from stainless steel I think.
Agree, but once it gets a bit of tarnish, I like to take a sunshine cloth to it and make it shiny as a mirror.
You can't really love it if it requires no physical attention. Even polished up it seems to have a unique warmth.
Agree. Even a new ivory ferrule, I make it look better over time. I rub a bit of a wet finger on it and polish it with a cloth. After a while, it looks like it has a plate of glass over it. Yeah, it's that good to lavish love on cue parts.
Yeah, and the wood....
My wife was looking at some beautiful antiques, beautiful wood. There was burl and curl, and brilliant chatoyance. I just couldn't help think of how wasteful it was, how many pool cues could have been made.
And now we are getting carbon fiber cues, synthetic tips...pretty soon an AI aiming app on our phone and a laser...
Sadly, this may have been ahead of its time:
My wife was looking at some beautiful antiques, beautiful wood. There was burl and curl, and brilliant chatoyance. I just couldn't help think of how wasteful it was, how many pool cues could have been made.
And now we are getting carbon fiber cues, synthetic tips...pretty soon an AI aiming app on our phone and a laser...
Sadly, this may have been ahead of its time: