When you’re skilled and bored

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.
 
Chris said:
Serious question: The cue cost $29, but he added a wrap, a tip, and some micarta, plus maybe 1-2 hours labor, maybe more. How much did the improved cue cost if the new parts and labor are included with the initial purchase price?
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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.
 
Straightpool_99 said:
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.
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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.
 
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
 
Bob Jewett said:
A friend of mine took sort of the opposite approach. He put a Budweiser sticker on his Southwest. :eek:
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I shouldn't have used the layered tip. First kid to the table saw the moori tip and I had a dozen at the table in two minutes! The tables in there were some old Valley's from the eighties, cloth and all. That cloth was abrasive enough to cut the skin off your hands. I kicked and banked like I hadn't done in years, finishing off my last rack with two table length banks and two table length kicks, all four shots back to back. Really drove home that my glory days weren't on modern equipment. Often tougher equipment but different. I would have to put in the hours again to play on today's equipment and years have caught up with me. The gamblers have moved to poker and casinos, and I don't like tournament play.

Hu
 
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