Tim Scruggs. Ivory or Not?

[jbaggs90]

A guy brought me a Scruggs and ask for a new tip. I put on a morri for him as he requested. I didnt think anything about the ferrule being ivory because of the coloration (it was yellowed more than you would think ivory would be). I looked up Scruggs in my bluebook and it seems that he used ivory up until 1985 and then went to other materials until he decided on melamine. In 1997 he went back to ivory with a linen based ferrule option.
This info was helpful other than the cue owner does not know when it was made.
I heard that ivory will glow under a black light which may be true but other ferrules might too. Is there any way to tell if it is ivory other than just looking for the grain.
He took his cue with him although I told him that I may need to put a pad behind his tip. I also recomended that he not break with the cue unless he finds out that the ferrule is indeed not ivory.
I would like to have the piece of mind that I did not screw up someones cue by not giving him proper materials.

Thanks in advance for your input

 

[greyghost]

yes it glows like your teeth do in black light......you can remove the tip and pad and face the ferrule off. Give it another light touch with the tool and give it a smell.....

should smell kinda like burnt hair.....its UNMISTAKEABLE!!!!

If others are around and don't know what your doing....they should walk up at any moment and ask:

"Hey WTF is that smell.....smells weird like burnt hair or something?"

Kind of like when your calipers lock up on a vehicle and it gives off that unique odor thats tell tale.

no other material used in cuemaking smells even remotely close to that....

even if you don't know exactly what the smell has been described as is......when you do cut into ivory a an explosion will occur in your brain and you will exclaim:

HELL THIS IS IVORY!!!!!! HEEE HEEEEEE!

Touch it, feel it, UMMMMM its cool isn't it lol. That was on a big a** elephant at one time.....PRE TAY COOOOLLLLLL

Ivory is made of Dentin which all animals have in their teeth actually even humans....the dentin in elephants and other tusked animals just keeps stacking up on its self layer upon layer upon layer similar to that of a tree which is why you find similar growth rings in it.
The only difference in an elephant from say our teeth is that the tusks enamel wears off.....we keep the enamel on our teeth, our dentin is inside.

 

[pdcue]

A guy brought me a Scruggs and ask for a new tip. I put on a morri for him as he requested. I didnt think anything about the ferrule being ivory because of the coloration (it was yellowed more than you would think ivory would be). I looked up Scruggs in my bluebook and it seems that he used ivory up until 1985 and then went to other materials until he decided on melamine. In 1997 he went back to ivory with a linen based ferrule option.
This info was helpful other than the cue owner does not know when it was made.
I heard that ivory will glow under a black light which may be true but other ferrules might too. Is there any way to tell if it is ivory other than just looking for the grain.
He took his cue with him although I told him that I may need to put a pad behind his tip. I also recomended that he not break with the cue unless he finds out that the ferrule is indeed not ivory.
I would like to have the piece of mind that I did not screw up someones cue by not giving him proper materials.

Thanks in advance for your input

You should expect ivory to be yellowed - that is part of what has made it
popular for millenia - it would seem only pool players want ivory to be
refrigerator white.

Dale

 

[greyghost]

You should expect ivory to be yellowed - that is part of what has made it
popular for millenia - it would seem only pool players want ivory to be
refrigerator white.

Dale

Good point dale......you can also "age" ivory by soaking it in tea but then has to be seasoned once more.....you can even dye it like you do easter eggs lol but it would have to be in its final OD since cutting would remove the outer layer.

I been thinking about doing this on a cue lately, I think a stained ivory with some nice figure would look amazing

 

[pdcue]

Good point dale......you can also "age" ivory by soaking it in tea but then has to be seasoned once more.....you can even dye it like you do easter eggs lol but it would have to be in its final OD since cutting would remove the outer layer.

I been thinking about doing this on a cue lately, I think a stained ivory with some nice figure would look amazing

Ought to be worth a try ghost- maybe you will start a new trend.

Dale