You too can own Paul Newman's Balabushka...

[Benelli]

I've hit balls with several real Buska cues and other then a collector standpoint there is nothing special or magical the way they play.

Look I agree, it's not about magic. For me it is about the art of cue-making in the modern age and how it evolved over time.

I have friends who collect billiards stuff from the late 1700s through the late 1800s. The cues they have are beautiful, one piece, and speak to a time when billiards were only the domain of the upper classes.

But the sport really started expanding out to everyone at the beginning of the 1900s and the birth of the two-piece cue and the cues coming out of Chicago really mark the start of our generation of cues. BBC, Albert Pick and others laid the foundation that Rambow, Spain, Balabushka, and Szamboti then took to the next level.

Someday I will have one or two cues from each of those makers in my collection, not today... but someday.

 

[collins22]

You mean this one?

well. that's a pretty good and timely reply. Who made that cue? Any idea what the market value of it is? I wonder what cue Newman used in the the original movie HUSTLER ?

 

[rexus31]

well. that's a pretty good and timely reply. Who made that cue? Any idea what the market value of it is? I wonder what cue Newman used in the the original movie HUSTLER ?

That's THE Rambow cue Willie ran 526 with. When I was in Vegas for the Mosconi Cup a few years back, I had the good fortune to attend a private tour of the Denny Glenn collection. I got to hold/see many, many cues from champions of all eras.