Wrapless ambonya/thuya/birdseye zinzola fs

Yeah me!! I so wish I could afford to grab this beauty, it's absolutely gorgeous. Especially with the added ring work.

GLWYS!

Mo
 
I take my hat off to Tony if he changed the ring work on this cue. The only way I see of doing it is to dissect the cue and then put it back together. Do you know how hard this would be to do? I can tell you it is much harder than building a new cue and getting it all back together straight again. Wow, what a feat of machining!!!!!
 
It's really nice looking cue, also is a great player. I have been shoot few racks before:thumbup:
 
Rtoron said:
I take my hat off to Tony if he changed the ring work on this cue. The only way I see of doing it is to dissect the cue and then put it back together. Do you know how hard this would be to do? I can tell you it is much harder than building a new cue and getting it all back together straight again. Wow, what a feat of machining!!!!!
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You can see the before and after pictures for yourself. I take it from the comments that you are an accomplished cuemaker, care to identify yourself ?

BTW, if I were to do the replacement work I'd plunge-cut out the old rings and glue in a perfect-fitting split-ring-of-black-stuff (pardon the technical terminology), maybe polish it up with some acetone, then inlay the barbells, and finally turn-to-size (very carefully). Of course I am not a cuemaker, so what do I know.

Note to buyers, I too have hit a few balls with this cue and it playes very well. As Steph knows I would buy the Zinzola myself but for a few expenses I have building a new pool room in my basement.

Dave
 
I am Ron Betts, have built cues for 20 years. The split ring idea sounds good on paper but I don't thing a cue maker would do it this way. There would always be a fine line showing in the split ring and this would not satisfy the perfection required in cue building. I could be wrong and if I am wrong then maybe I could learn something. I have pondered this idea on cues I have built but never attacked the problem in this way. I would really like to know how Tony did it. Doing surgery on a cue is much more difficult than building a cue from scratch. However you do it it must be like the cue was never touched. Also the fit must be perfect or you will induce a stress that could cause the cue to no longer be straight. As a cue maker, I would turn this type of job down. Way too many headaches. I am friends with Jim Buss so maybe I will discuss this with him but I believe he would turn the job down also. Bottom line, sure would like to know how Tony did it.
 
Rtoron said:
I am Ron Betts, have built cues for 20 years. The split ring idea sounds good on paper but I don't thing a cue maker would do it this way. There would always be a fine line showing in the split ring and this would not satisfy the perfection required in cue building. I could be wrong and if I am wrong then maybe I could learn something. I have pondered this idea on cues I have built but never attacked the problem in this way. I would really like to know how Tony did it. Doing surgery on a cue is much more difficult than building a cue from scratch. However you do it it must be like the cue was never touched. Also the fit must be perfect or you will induce a stress that could cause the cue to no longer be straight. As a cue maker, I would turn this type of job down. Way too many headaches. I am friends with Jim Buss so maybe I will discuss this with him but I believe he would turn the job down also. Bottom line, sure would like to know how Tony did it.
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Why don't you send him (Tony) a PM or an email???
 
not cheap enough eh? LOL!

lets get this thing sold!!!! price reduction 1100.00 SHIPPED CONUS!!!
 
Last year Tony's cues wouldn't last a day....and at this price it would of been gone in minutes crazy market o well it's tough all over :rolleyes:
 
tattoo said:
Last year Tony's cues wouldn't last a day....and at this price it would of been gone in minutes crazy market o well it's tough all over :rolleyes:
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I hear ya ! Under better circumstances I would buy this cue ... it looks great and plays very well too ... and has a nice story behind it.

Dave
 
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