UNKNOWN CUE.. please help and for sale

spanky981

spanky981

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Dont know what it is.. Has 8pts. purpleheart triple veneered.

Thick silver rings above delrin buttcap.. Alan head screwed in rubber bumper.

Ivory inlays. Piloted 5/16 14 joint. No ivory ferrules. I cannot tell.

Would like to get $550..
Please let me know what youthink it is and if price is fair.
2 shafts. around 12.75mm..

Mike

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Honestly if I had to guess, I'd guess that its an older Joss West. But then again, what the hell do I know.
 
Hmmm, tough one. Don't think it's a JW, unless someone ordered the 3 different silver band sizes from Bill --- which is a possibility.

The silver band above the Delrin buttcap is thick - about .045 or so. Not normally found on Bill's work.

The next 4 bands are thinner then Bill usually used - they're only about
.010

Then the joint and shaft collars have a "more standard" size of about .020

(Don't give me grief over these approximations, please :p )

Having wrote that, the points look good - really good. Might be recut, hard to tell in the pic.

The shaft wood also looks good. See those first 6" below the ferrules - nice tight grain.

Are the white bands ivory? (The little ones on both sides of the silver bands)
And how about the dashes themselves? Can you tell if they're ivory?

Countless CMs have made dashed ivory rings, but the white & silver bands at C,D & E is a different story - especially if they're ivory. Really narrows the field.

And is that a black phenolic ring at the base of the points?? And the short points are dominant....

At this point I'm clueless...contradictions....but it's no amateur....:confused:
 
could be anyone

the cue was built with prather parts....

the buttsleeve is inlayed with standard prather inlay patterns and the forearm like masonh said is a prather part.

the narrows the field to like 200 cuemakers :confused:

but it looks like nice work...could be any of the oklahoma cuemakers...Horn, Ingram, weinstock or maybe prather themselves. Tunder out of kansas could be an option too.

Nice cue, the 550 is not out of line- but might be hard to get without a name on the cue and the fact its built from prather components.

Good luck!
ryan
 
I am shocked at how many cuemakers i have learned and keep learning buy their blanks from Prather and try to claim otherwise or try to disguise the fact.Dont' get me wrong Prather makes great playing and great looking blanks,but it kind of seems like cheating.
 
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