Tim scruggs loaded with Ivory f/s

The cue looks nice, but it would look great if it didn't have those round azz cnc points on everything :(
 
Wrong ding dong!!!

I owned this particular cue and everything on it is sharp and nothing is CNC and all the work is by hand.
Also my friends tell me this cue will not happen again and if it did it would be over $4000.00!!! They say it will be more than $4,000 and they have no intentions of repeating this pattern.
One more thing really worth mentioning is that the cue is undersized about .010 of a inch from standard if I rember right making the cue very easy to work in your fingers!!!!
I was tempted to cut the shafts to 12.85 MM but just couldn't do it. They are awesome and need to never be touched. Best shaftwood on the planet!!!!
I have a nice Scruggs ivory joint radial pin Hoppe cue I would love to work out a trade on if mine doesn't sell this week!!!!
Nick 850-474-0628 0-11 am cst thank you
 
Ebay bidder

Nice looking cue. Be sure to read your bidders feedback, what little there is. Hope your sale goes well. :)
 
I bought a Tulipwood McDermott with hand-spliced points from this seller a while back and I would highly recommend doing business with him. Everything about the transaction was a success (fast delivery, packaging, condition of the cue as advertised, etc.) Not to mention the fact that the bidding went low for some reason and I got lucky, as Efren would say.
 
That is a nice looking cue. I can understand the comments about "round" cnc points as if you click on a couple of the pics that show the butt sleeve, they definitely do look round.

Perhaps the seller should post better pics to show the cue as it is?

Peter
 
It's my photography thats the problem. Everything about this cue is top notch. I will state that someone also emailed me and state that the butt cap on this cue is not Ivory but a synthetic substitute. Maybe Nick could chime in as a former owner of this cue. It looks like ivory to me. The current high bidder is the former owner that I got the cue from. I currently have 3 Really nice offers on the cue and haven't decided what to do. Feel free to PM me with offers or questions. Thank You.
 
VARick said:
I bought a Tulipwood McDermott with hand-spliced points from this seller a while back and I would highly recommend doing business with him. Everything about the transaction was a success (fast delivery, packaging, condition of the cue as advertised, etc.) Not to mention the fact that the bidding went low for some reason and I got lucky, as Efren would say.

Thank you for the kind words. You should be wearing a gun and a mask for what you got that cue for:D . I have it's hand spliced ebony brother if your interested (unplayed).
 
I AM A LITTLE CONFUSED. THE TWO PICS BELOW (WHICH I COPIED FROM THE AUCTION ARE NOT (IN MY OPINION) OF THE SAME CUE. THE REGULAR DIGITAL PICTURE HAS ROUNDED INLAYS IN IT, THE SCAN OF THE CUE (THE SECOND PIC) HAS RAZOR SHARP INLAYS. ARE YOU SURE THE IMAGES ARE OF THE SAME CUE?

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P.S. THE BUTTCAP LOOKS LIKE AN IVORY SUBSTITUTE MATERIAL TO ME.
 
Photo's vs Scans

They are definately the same cue. The difference is the sharp one is a scan of the cue off a high end flatbed scanner not a photo and gives you a super true image if what the cue looks like. I don't know much about it but it is a tif file. The other photos were taken with my crappy digital camera. There is also a scan of the forearm in the photo group. The scan is what we use for the websight Jamie (Worminator) could probably tell you more about it.
 
lenoxmjs said:
They are definately the same cue. The difference is the sharp one is a scan of the cue off a high end flatbed scanner not a photo and gives you a super true image if what the cue looks like. I don't know much about it but it is a tif file. The other photos were taken with my crappy digital camera. There is also a scan of the forearm in the photo group. The scan is what we use for the websight Jamie (Worminator) could probably tell you more about it.


I ASKED MY PREVIOUS QUESTION FOR A SIMPLE REASON. THE GUY THAT ASKED EARLIER WHY EVERYTHING WAS ROUNDED, NEVER LOOKED AT THE SCANS CLOSELY. I FIGURED IF I BROUGHT IT TO EVERYONES ATTENTION THAT THE SCANS WERE MORE ACCURATE A DEPICTION OF THE CUE, THAT EVERYONE WOULD REALIZE THAT EVERYTHING WAS SHARP CUT.
 
FAST_N_LOOSE - Cameras may blur the pics or change colors etc..... But they don't round corners (even a disposable) or lie. (I buy and sell cues also...as a matter of fact you had one drop shipped to me today).

It's still a nice looking cue either way.............. I'd have to see it in person myself.

:)
 
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I don't know what to say except ya got me. I'm a crappy photographer with a crappy nikon 5 megapixle that likes to round corners. Good thing thay make really good flatbed scanners for us non photo geeks. The only thing I can think of is the extreme angle that I was holding the camera at to try and reduce reflections. Maybe some of you shutter bugs could weigh in on why a camera would make my inlays look rounded.
 
lenoxmjs said:
I don't know what to say except ya got me. I'm a crappy photographer with a crappy nikon 5 megapixle that likes to round corners. Good thing thay make really good flatbed scanners for us non photo geeks. The only thing I can think of is the extreme angle that I was holding the camera at to try and reduce reflections. Maybe some of you shutter bugs could weigh in on why a camera would make my inlays look rounded.

There is some blurring in the pics. Here is the best they can be fixed.

I'm still saying it's a nice cue :)
 

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The .tif file format is not compressed. Most cameras use the .jpg format which is a compressed file format. I don't see how it could account for this though. I will experiment with some cameras, resolution settings, and angles.

EDIT: I looked at the photos more closely. I believe this strange effect may be due to the lighting and/or flash. The corners of the inlays look more pointed the further away they are from the center of focus. The focus lies just at the tip of the rhombus closest to the wrap (the most rounded corner). Notice that the top set of dashes also look wider than they appear in the scanned version. I think that the white inlays produced hotspots/glare when the picture was taken, and subsequently compressed (by the camera). When the image was compressed the hotspots were interpolated by the compression algorithm as the same color value of as the inlays themselves. Compression algorithims compare the color value of each pixel to that of all its neighbors and approximate the value for each pixel for the final picture based on this, because the compression tosses away some color value, each pixel is assigned an artificial value. This is the trade off for smaller file size. The camera may be able to be set to do a better job, though, or you could just use different lighting... or both. The scanned images, though sharper, are lower contrast, and don't do justice to the cue, especially the wood grain.
 
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Ruthless said:
FAST_N_LOOSE - Cameras may blur the pics or change colors etc..... But they don't round corners (even a disposable) or lie. (I buy and sell cues also...as a matter of fact you had one drop shipped to me today).

It's still a nice looking cue either way.............. I'd have to see it in person myself.

:)


I KNOW THEY DON'T ROUND CORNERS, BUT THEY BLUR. MATT AND I DON'T TAKE REAL GOOD PICTURES, SO I KNEW WHAT HE WASEXPERIENCING. I HAD GONE THROUGH THE SAME THING HERE ON THE BOARD WHEN I HAD POSTED PICS OF ONE OF MY TASCARELLAS.

P.S. I DIDN'T DROP SHIP ANYTHING TODAY THAT I KNOW OF. WHAT CUE DID I DROP SHIP TO YOU?
 
FAST_N_LOOSE said:
I KNOW THEY DON'T ROUND CORNERS, BUT THEY BLUR. MATT AND I DON'T TAKE REAL GOOD PICTURES, SO I KNEW WHAT HE WASEXPERIENCING. I HAD GONE THROUGH THE SAME THING HERE ON THE BOARD WHEN I HAD POSTED PICS OF ONE OF MY TASCARELLAS.

P.S. I DIDN'T DROP SHIP ANYTHING TODAY THAT I KNOW OF. WHAT CUE DID I DROP SHIP TO YOU?


(Turn caps off ;))

I'm sorry it was someone with a similar company name that I got the cue from............. :(
 
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