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Here is a super sharp fullsplice that was hand spliced by the fine cuemaker Bebot Bautista of the Philippines. Take note of the long, thin, ultra sharp & dead even points...qualities rarely found on fullsplice sneaky style blanks. Hats off to Mr. Bautista as he certainly builds a quality blank and from what I understand, he does it very old school fashion with a lot of hand tools. You may remember the cue from an earlier thread for which I supplied the link above. Well the cue winds up here in NC. The current owner of the cue is a rather large & quite dangerous local roadplayer...he's about 6'4" & 280lbs and the line I get is he's already cut & buried more than one...thats all I'm saying. When he brings me the cue for work I just say "yes sir, whatever you'd like sir". This is one nasty cat. Anyway...he has a bunch of 3/8-10 black collar high performance shafts he wants to use on this cue, so he has me swap the pin to a 3/8-10 & change the joint collar to solid black to match. While here he decides he wants one of my OB Classic partials fitted to the cue & again I say "yes sir." Lastly he see's some Hoppe style cues I'm working on & decides he needs that as well. Presto...here is the finished cue complete with the trick new OB Classic shaft & Juma Hoppe ring. The cue is still signed in gold "Bebot Bautista 2010". Bebot sir...I hope you are proud of my work.
Here is a super sharp fullsplice that was hand spliced by the fine cuemaker Bebot Bautista of the Philippines. Take note of the long, thin, ultra sharp & dead even points...qualities rarely found on fullsplice sneaky style blanks. Hats off to Mr. Bautista as he certainly builds a quality blank and from what I understand, he does it very old school fashion with a lot of hand tools. You may remember the cue from an earlier thread for which I supplied the link above. Well the cue winds up here in NC. The current owner of the cue is a rather large & quite dangerous local roadplayer...he's about 6'4" & 280lbs and the line I get is he's already cut & buried more than one...thats all I'm saying. When he brings me the cue for work I just say "yes sir, whatever you'd like sir". This is one nasty cat. Anyway...he has a bunch of 3/8-10 black collar high performance shafts he wants to use on this cue, so he has me swap the pin to a 3/8-10 & change the joint collar to solid black to match. While here he decides he wants one of my OB Classic partials fitted to the cue & again I say "yes sir." Lastly he see's some Hoppe style cues I'm working on & decides he needs that as well. Presto...here is the finished cue complete with the trick new OB Classic shaft & Juma Hoppe ring. The cue is still signed in gold "Bebot Bautista 2010". Bebot sir...I hope you are proud of my work.
