What's this cue made out of?

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StudntofHmanMvs

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Howdy y'all! Can anyone out there identify the materials used for this here Schon Ltd? I hear it's a 2001. Anyone know for sure? I've looked on Schon's online catalog and don't think it's on there. I emailed 'em, but heard sometimes it can take awhile. If anyone would care to share some information it'd be appreciated. Thanks.

Dennis
 

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Thank you sir

I was thinking the wood might be cocobolo and I was hoping the white was ivory. I had no clue on the green. I thought the green sorta resembled granite, with the white and black specks in it. But down here anyway, granite is usually pink. I've never heard of reconstituted turquoise. I'm gonna look it up later on, I've got a little road trip to make right now, tho. So do you think the white in the rings is ivory too? What about the black in the rings? Anyone else have an thoughts?

Thanks again,

Dennis
 
The black in the rings is either ebony or phenolic.

I don't know if the white in your cue is ivory but Schon uses ivory for inlays in cues and have not yet seen these newer cues with white inlays that are not ivory.

I hope others will chime in as well.
 
The straighter grain makes it look like kingwood, which is sister to cocobola - they're members of the rosewood family. The inlays ARE recon granite - I've seen it in person & described on their site in other cues. I'd bet the white is ivory in the inlays, and I'd suspect faux ivory or phenolic in the rings at this price point. Evan probably cored the handle on this one because of the wood involved - unfortunately he often still doesn't doesn't get the weight down as much as would be desired.
Nice cue.
 
Thanks y'all

I had no clue granite was used in cues. Weird. What the heck does reconstituted mean? I've googled and wiki'd it, to no avail. Dictionary says something about adding water back to something which had been dehydrated. :scratchhead: Doesn't make sense to me, as pertaining to granite. I've one more curiosity- What's the Schon ferrule made of?

Dennis
 
They used to be laminated.
They aren't anymore.

I have some doubts about Schon using Corian.
More like recon. Azurite/Malachite.
Could be wrong.

I believe their ferrules are a form of LBM.
Pretty hard and nasty to cut.

Oh, and it's most definitely Coco.
 
KJ Cues said:
They used to be laminated.
They aren't anymore.

I have some doubts about Schon using Corian.
More like recon. Azurite/Malachite.
Could be wrong.

I believe their ferrules are a form of LBM.
Pretty hard and nasty to cut.

Oh, and it's most definitely Coco.
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Just noticed the color striations on the forearm, etc. You heard it from KJ - coco for sure.

btw - ya know what else is funny...
In 2000 I bought a really nice Schon LTD. Called Evan & got the scoop on it, even sent it back to him because it hadn't been engraved w/ the LTD. Anyway... I asked Evan to fit me a Predator shaft for it & he gave me a hard flat "no" saying he didn't believe in them. At the time, there had just been an industry show & Predator was inundated w/ overseas orders - lead time was about 3 to 4 months. Managed to get on the front end of the list w/ the nice folks @ Hawley's Billiards & got 2 in about 3 weeks. At the time, they had already sold every Predator shaft in the shop - including the ones from the Pred cue butts, and they said it was primarily to folks that wanted to use them on their Schons.
Now you can buy pre-matched OB1's off the shelf specifically for Evan's Schons. Guess he's a believer, of sorts, now.

(so am I w/ the OB1's - I've switched to them entirely)
 
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KJ Cues said:
They used to be laminated.
They aren't anymore.

I have some doubts about Schon using Corian.
More like recon. Azurite/Malachite.
Could be wrong.

I believe their ferrules are a form of LBM.
Pretty hard and nasty to cut.

Oh, and it's most definitely Coco.
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You might have your doubts about the corian,but thats what the Schon shop told me it was when I called in 2001.Was looking for the model number and materials used in the cue. I had just bought the cue at SBE.Maybe they lied.
 
Well.

LoL!

Quite a range of opinions. My knowledge on this topic is limited, so I appreciate the ideas/guesses/opinions. I's hoping a Schon dealer, or someone with firsthand knowledge would be able to provide something concrete. At any rate, I now have a pretty good idea of what the materials probably are.

I guess it's insignificant considering that this is the best hitting cue I've played with.:love: I'd been shooting with a Meucci sneaky minus a weight bolt for the past several years, and am still adjusting to the Schon. It came with an unused Schon shaft and a practically mint pre-cat 314. I've never shot with an LD shaft and that's the one I've been using on it. So there's another variable I must adjust to. I like the fact that the Schon shaft's never been chalked, and for some reason I kinda want to keep it that way. :shrug:
But yeah, this being the cue review section, my review of this Schon Ltd. is that it rocks.:thumbup:

Dennis
 
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