Wondering about your shafts.

jlrowe

Billiards,Boxing & Babes
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Hey Shawn,
I am fortunate enough to have one of your older cues. Its the only one i shoot with. Just wondering if you maybe remember it. and give me some history behind it. It is a modified sneaky pete with brown/white linen wrap goes all way down to the butt plate. The joint and butt plate is natural linen. The joint also has small maple squares. it has putnam '02 i think, its so small cant hardly make it out. Its a fantastic hitting cue. But what amazes me is the shaft is the straightest shaft i have ever seen in my life and it was turned down to 12mm when i got it. At the time i didnt even know you made cues and Sherm up in cincinatti told me you made a few. I break with it every game and it will not warp. So what do you charge for your shafts? If you are ever going to be back in abbington or moutain city let me know. Oh sorry to hear about the cues. I understand how it is. I run a pool room and you have to keep a constant eye out all the time. People like that is what gives pool rooms such a bad image.
 
jlrowe said:
Hey Shawn,
I am fortunate enough to have one of your older cues. Its the only one i shoot with. Just wondering if you maybe remember it. and give me some history behind it. It is a modified sneaky pete with brown/white linen wrap goes all way down to the butt plate. The joint and butt plate is natural linen. The joint also has small maple squares. it has putnam '02 i think, its so small cant hardly make it out. Its a fantastic hitting cue. But what amazes me is the shaft is the straightest shaft i have ever seen in my life and it was turned down to 12mm when i got it. At the time i didnt even know you made cues and Sherm up in cincinatti told me you made a few. I break with it every game and it will not warp. So what do you charge for your shafts? If you are ever going to be back in abbington or moutain city let me know. Oh sorry to hear about the cues. I understand how it is. I run a pool room and you have to keep a constant eye out all the time. People like that is what gives pool rooms such a bad image.
I'm glad you like the cue.
I put a lot of hard work into every cue I build.
I'm pretty sure the shaft you have on that cue was cut from 30 year old house cues.
Some house cues are to thin in diameter to make sneaky petes out of, so they get turned into shafts for sneaky petes.
I know one cue maker who purchased 40+year old bowling alley lanes for shafts and they were unbelievable.
My shafts are 125.00 and I need the butt.
 
Shawn Putnam said:
I'm glad you like the cue.
I put a lot of hard work into every cue I build.
I'm pretty sure the shaft you have on that cue was cut from 30 year old house cues.
Some house cues are to thin in diameter to make sneaky petes out of, so they get turned into shafts for sneaky petes.
I know one cue maker who purchased 40+year old bowling alley lanes for shafts and they were unbelievable.
My shafts are 125.00 and I need the butt.

Thanks Shawn,
I'll get up with you soon about the shaft.
JLRowe
 
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