What is this ferrule made of?

WillyCornbread

Break and One
Silver Member
HI - I recently purchased a new PFD custom cue from a forum member, but they don't recall what the ferrules are made of and Paul also doesn't remember. Paul said he usually uses ivory, but this doesn't look like ivory to me unless ferrule ivory is different than the ivory used elsewhere on the cue.

Is there some way I can figure out what it is? When facing it off on my lathe it peeled off easily for whatever that's worth.

Here is a close up, don't know if that's helpful at all - thank you!

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Kinda looks like ivory to me... you can see what looks like dentin lines on the bottom of the pic towards the shadow.
 
Thank you for responding, Paul said he generally uses Ivory or Juma. I was hoping there was some magic way to tell either by looking at it, or by the way it comes off when facing it for a tip change.

Either way the cue plays great but if I ever sell or trade it the next person will probably want to know more than I did...

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Thank you for responding, Paul said he generally uses Ivory or Juma. I was hoping there was some magic way to tell either by looking at it, or by the way it comes off when facing it for a tip change.

Either way the cue plays great but if I ever sell or trade it the next person will probably want to know more than I did...

b

If it is Ivory, it will glow under fluorescence light.
 
Thank you for responding, Paul said he generally uses Ivory or Juma. I was hoping there was some magic way to tell either by looking at it, or by the way it comes off when facing it for a tip change.

Either way the cue plays great but if I ever sell or trade it the next person will probably want to know more than I did...

b

It's juma, then. There's no way to tell what it is without cutting it, and that is not ivory.
 
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I'm going to stay with my answer of ivory due to the lines then. If it's one of Paul's cues. Juma would not have any vertical lines.
 
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