When you’re skilled and bored
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Interesting video. He got rid of a lot of the wobble in the butt.
I got a Mizerak cue from Sportsmart as a test. It plays OK once I got rid of the inch-and-a-quarter ferrule. $19, a while ago. It had a reasonable maple shaft, but most of them don't.
I got a Mizerak cue from Sportsmart as a test. It plays OK once I got rid of the inch-and-a-quarter ferrule. $19, a while ago. It had a reasonable maple shaft, but most of them don't.
Maybe they'll learn how to mill these things and produce POS Chinese playing cues.
He said the tip job cost more than the cue. The wrap is probably double the cue price maybe even treble and the warping fix I have no idea. He also mentioned retapering the shaft... It won't be worth it, mostly because he started with a shaft that wasn't all that great and had a big crack in it to boot.
If you started with a nice, solid vintage cue that had some warp in it..then it could be worth it and you probably could pick up something like that on the cheap. Then you could get a nice cue for 2-300 dollars. Not the bargain of the century, but you'd know it was a good cue that played well.
I was thinking about price relative to a new plain Dufferin with the same Thoroughbred tip can be had for under $150 from at least one retailer. Plenty of other options under $200, also. It would be easier to just spend the money on a decent budget cue to start with.
I like your approach for using the cue smith's skills to bring back a vintage cue.
Ok, that was pretty fun!
I tried building a sneaky from one of the under ten dollar budweiser cues years ago. New shaft, best of everything. New joint. When I played with it, it played better but still solidly in the junk range. The cue value didn't go up by the amount of components plus I had over half a day's time invested in turning a six dollar cue into a maybe $25 cue.
While components matter most on the tip end of the cue and least on the bumper end, I have proven to myself that even the bumper matters. Another issue, one low quality component brings the whole cue down. All components need to be in the same quality range. You can't turn a sow's ear into a silk purse!
Hu
While components matter most on the tip end of the cue and least on the bumper end, I have proven to myself that even the bumper matters. Another issue, one low quality component brings the whole cue down. All components need to be in the same quality range. You can't turn a sow's ear into a silk purse!
Hu