Well, I thought that I had seen just about everything when it came to acquiring cues via the internet. I had quite a surprise this morning when I visited my local cue maker/repair guy's shop with a very recent cue purchase here on AZ. First of all- let me say that I really love the cue, the price was fair, and I played with the cue on Tuesday and it just plays FANTASTIC- I mean better than most of the customs from some top makers that I have owned- that is saying something about a cue.
So I have absolutely no regrets on the purchase, already gave positive feedback to the seller, which, I believe, was deserved.
The cue, looks to be an old Adam as advertised, came with a jet black linen wrap, It had the old style Bushka MOP dots and notched Diamond patterns in the ebony sleeve and ebony points. All along I planned to change the wrap to white with green spec linen, as I love that traditional look on this style cue.
Well when I received the cue, the black linen wrap felt sort of sticky to me, I attributed that to the extreme heat during shipping time- 8 days from WA. to FL. in the summer months - and I was going to replace the wrap anyhow- so, no worries. This morning, as my cue guy had the cue on his lathe and started to un wrap the cue, he discovered that the cue, in fact already had an original white with green spec wrap- someone had used black shoe polish to change the wrap color to jet black.
This was a first for him, too! We stood amazed as the wrap was coming off the lathe in small pieces with all this black gunk! Well, it all came out really nice by 10 AM this morning- before and after pics below! I informed the seller, I don't think that he knew about this as he did not own the cue for much time at all.
I guess that is it always buyer beware- just glad I got the cue- it plays so well and looks great now to me- and glad that no one else here bought the cue wanting it with a black wrap - eventually the wrap would have exposed itself as a fugazy!
So I have absolutely no regrets on the purchase, already gave positive feedback to the seller, which, I believe, was deserved.
The cue, looks to be an old Adam as advertised, came with a jet black linen wrap, It had the old style Bushka MOP dots and notched Diamond patterns in the ebony sleeve and ebony points. All along I planned to change the wrap to white with green spec linen, as I love that traditional look on this style cue.
Well when I received the cue, the black linen wrap felt sort of sticky to me, I attributed that to the extreme heat during shipping time- 8 days from WA. to FL. in the summer months - and I was going to replace the wrap anyhow- so, no worries. This morning, as my cue guy had the cue on his lathe and started to un wrap the cue, he discovered that the cue, in fact already had an original white with green spec wrap- someone had used black shoe polish to change the wrap color to jet black.
This was a first for him, too! We stood amazed as the wrap was coming off the lathe in small pieces with all this black gunk! Well, it all came out really nice by 10 AM this morning- before and after pics below! I informed the seller, I don't think that he knew about this as he did not own the cue for much time at all.
I guess that is it always buyer beware- just glad I got the cue- it plays so well and looks great now to me- and glad that no one else here bought the cue wanting it with a black wrap - eventually the wrap would have exposed itself as a fugazy!
