I got an old looking one piece pool cue the other day. It looks like a
combination of maple and rosewood. 1/3 rosewood, 2/3 maple. It has a piece
of ferritic metal at the joint, as a supermagnet sticks on it. This had to
be made in two pieces. All the old house cues I've seen had the wood coming
to points. I have never seen one like this with a joint.

Look at it at :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

and post any comments. I'm guessing 1940's.

Not worth anything, just interesting.

Steve

Steve B wrote:
I got an old looking one piece pool cue the other day. It looks like a
combination of maple and rosewood. 1/3 rosewood, 2/3 maple. It has a piece
of ferritic metal at the joint, as a supermagnet sticks on it. This had to
be made in two pieces. All the old house cues I've seen had the wood coming
to points.


The darker wood is probably Mahogany (but I've played pool for more
years than I've studied wood). The fact that the shape is not more
"conical" is probably due to wear occuring during trimming the leather
tips. This one is in need of a trim now. The diameter of the cross
section of the leather should be the same at that of the wood, near the
tip. Hope that helps.

Bill


I have never seen one like this with a joint.

Look at it at :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

and post any comments. I'm guessing 1940's.

Not worth anything, just interesting.

Steve

"Artemus" wrote

How about posting a pic of the joint?
Art


after I wrote:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

Go to the flickr page above. There are three pictures. The one on the
right that says joint is the picture of the joint.

Steve

"Steve B" wrote in message ...
I got an old looking one piece pool cue the other day. It looks like a combination
of maple and rosewood. 1/3 rosewood, 2/3 maple. It has a piece of ferritic metal
at the joint, as a supermagnet sticks on it. This had to be made in two pieces.
All the old house cues I've seen had the wood coming to points. I have never seen
one like this with a joint.

Look at it at :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

and post any comments. I'm guessing 1940's.

Not worth anything, just interesting.

Steve
How about posting a pic of the joint?
Art

"Steve B" wrote in message ...


"Artemus" wrote

How about posting a pic of the joint?
Art


after I wrote:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

Go to the flickr page above. There are three pictures. The one on the
right that says joint is the picture of the joint.
================================================== =========================
Unless I have forgotten how to count, there are two pictures.

"Steve B" wrote in message ...

"Artemus" wrote

How about posting a pic of the joint?
Art


after I wrote:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

Go to the flickr page above. There are three pictures. The one on the right that
says joint is the picture of the joint.

Steve
I only see 2 pics - tip & rosewood.
Art

There are only two pictures.

On 4/1/2012 7:41 PM, Steve B wrote:
wrote

How about posting a pic of the joint?
Art


after I wrote:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

Go to the flickr page above. There are three pictures. The one on the
right that says joint is the picture of the joint.

Steve

Steve B wrote:
"Artemus" wrote

How about posting a pic of the joint?
Art


after I wrote:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

Go to the flickr page above. There are three pictures. The one on
the right that says joint is the picture of the joint.


Nope - only two pictures.

--

-Mike-

On 4/2/2012 7:34 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Steve B wrote:
wrote

How about posting a pic of the joint?
Art


after I wrote:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

Go to the flickr page above. There are three pictures. The one on
the right that says joint is the picture of the joint.


Nope - only two pictures.

2 pictures here too. Maybe that's his April Fool's joke?

"CW" wrote in message
m...


"Steve B" wrote in message ...

"Artemus" wrote

How about posting a pic of the joint?
Art


after I wrote:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

Go to the flickr page above. There are three pictures. The one on the
right that says joint is the picture of the joint.
================================================== =========================
Unless I have forgotten how to count, there are two pictures.

I went and checked. The middle one is MIA, but there definitely one there
of the joint. And it is plainly labeled. And it is clearly a picture of a
joint on a pool stick.

Steve

"Artemus" wrote in message
...

"Steve B" wrote in message
...

"Artemus" wrote

How about posting a pic of the joint?
Art


after I wrote:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

Go to the flickr page above. There are three pictures. The one on the
right that says joint is the picture of the joint.

Steve
I only see 2 pics - tip & rosewood.
Art

I just went there. Slide the slider. There's a third pic on the right that
may not show up on a smaller screen shot.

Steve

Steve B wrote:
"CW" wrote in message
m...


"Steve B" wrote in message ...

"Artemus" wrote

How about posting a pic of the joint?
Art


after I wrote:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

Go to the flickr page above. There are three pictures. The one on
the right that says joint is the picture of the joint.
================================================== =========================
Unless I have forgotten how to count, there are two pictures.

I went and checked. The middle one is MIA, but there definitely one
there of the joint. And it is plainly labeled. And it is clearly a
picture of a joint on a pool stick.

Steve

Huh??? I went there twice. One picture of the tip and one picture of the
aft end of the shaft. Nothing at all labeled joint and nothing at all that
even remotely resembled a joint. Something funny going on here...

--

-Mike-

"Bill" wrote in message
...
On 4/2/2012 7:34 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Steve B wrote:
wrote

How about posting a pic of the joint?
Art


after I wrote:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

Go to the flickr page above. There are three pictures. The one on
the right that says joint is the picture of the joint.


Nope - only two pictures.

2 pictures here too. Maybe that's his April Fool's joke?

Just went there again. Try the little arrow on the bottom slider to bring
the third into view. If that don't work, I'll delete the other two. I
think you just have to slide the viewer.

Steve

"Mike Marlow" wrote in message
...
Steve B wrote:
"CW" wrote in message
m...


"Steve B" wrote in message ...

"Artemus" wrote

How about posting a pic of the joint?
Art


after I wrote:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

Go to the flickr page above. There are three pictures. The one on
the right that says joint is the picture of the joint.
================================================== =========================
Unless I have forgotten how to count, there are two pictures.

I went and checked. The middle one is MIA, but there definitely one
there of the joint. And it is plainly labeled. And it is clearly a
picture of a joint on a pool stick.

Steve

Huh??? I went there twice. One picture of the tip and one picture of the
aft end of the shaft. Nothing at all labeled joint and nothing at all
that even remotely resembled a joint. Something funny going on here...

--

-Mike-


Try the slider. If that don't work, I'll delete the other two.

Steve

Steve B wrote:
"Bill" wrote in message
...
On 4/2/2012 7:34 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Steve B wrote:
wrote

How about posting a pic of the joint?
Art


after I wrote:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

Go to the flickr page above. There are three pictures. The one on
the right that says joint is the picture of the joint.


Nope - only two pictures.

2 pictures here too. Maybe that's his April Fool's joke?

Just went there again. Try the little arrow on the bottom slider to
bring the third into view. If that don't work, I'll delete the other
two. I think you just have to slide the viewer.

Steve

No slider Steve. Click on any picture and flicr only indicates 2 pictures
to view. Click on slideshow and only two pictures show up. You have to
accept what people are telling you. There are not three pictures that we
can see. Try hitting your own link from you post, and see what we see.

--

-Mike-

"Mike Marlow" wrote in message
...
Steve B wrote:
"Bill" wrote in message
...
On 4/2/2012 7:34 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Steve B wrote:
wrote

How about posting a pic of the joint?
Art


after I wrote:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

Go to the flickr page above. There are three pictures. The one on
the right that says joint is the picture of the joint.


Nope - only two pictures.

2 pictures here too. Maybe that's his April Fool's joke?

Just went there again. Try the little arrow on the bottom slider to
bring the third into view. If that don't work, I'll delete the other
two. I think you just have to slide the viewer.

Steve

No slider Steve. Click on any picture and flicr only indicates 2 pictures
to view. Click on slideshow and only two pictures show up. You have to
accept what people are telling you. There are not three pictures that we
can see. Try hitting your own link from you post, and see what we see.

--

-Mike-


Damn, I had it marked private. Don't even know where that button is, or how
I hit it. Anyway, it's working now. Apologies to anyone I ass-u-med was
off their meds again.................

Sometimes, even I am wrong.

Steve

On 4/1/2012 5:49 PM, Steve B wrote:
I got an old looking one piece pool cue the other day. It looks like a
combination of maple and rosewood. 1/3 rosewood, 2/3 maple. It has a piece
of ferritic metal at the joint, as a supermagnet sticks on it. This had to
be made in two pieces. All the old house cues I've seen had the wood coming
to points. I have never seen one like this with a joint.

Look at it at :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

and post any comments. I'm guessing 1940's.

Not worth anything, just interesting.

Steve



I think it's held together with, basically, a piece of threaded steel
rod (I'm sure there's a name for such a connector). The black gasket
probably helps avoid all sorts of nasty things that could happen (from
wood being twisted against wood in opposing directions) if it were not
there. I don't think it was a "house cue" (why have a 2-piece house cue?)

Bill

Bill wrote:


I think it's held together with, basically, a piece of threaded steel
rod (I'm sure there's a name for such a connector). The black gasket
probably helps avoid all sorts of nasty things that could happen (from
wood being twisted against wood in opposing directions) if it were not
there. I don't think it was a "house cue" (why have a 2-piece house
cue?)

I don't know Bill - I have a couple of house cues in my basement and they
are certainly two piece cues. Mine are different in that they are spliced
with pointed splices instead of a blunt splice like Steve's picture. Either
way - two piece. Plastic pieces like that were typically used to simply
accent the joint, and did not serve any purpose in attempting to prevent any
twisting issues. In the case of Steve's cue, I don't believe it's necessary
that it was ever intended to be taken down like a typical two piece cue.

--

-Mike-

On 4/2/2012 12:25 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Bill wrote:


I think it's held together with, basically, a piece of threaded steel
rod (I'm sure there's a name for such a connector). The black gasket
probably helps avoid all sorts of nasty things that could happen (from
wood being twisted against wood in opposing directions) if it were not
there. I don't think it was a "house cue" (why have a 2-piece house
cue?)

I don't know Bill - I have a couple of house cues in my basement and they
are certainly two piece cues. Mine are different in that they are spliced
with pointed splices instead of a blunt splice like Steve's picture. Either
way - two piece. Plastic pieces like that were typically used to simply
accent the joint, and did not serve any purpose in attempting to prevent any
twisting issues. In the case of Steve's cue, I don't believe it's necessary
that it was ever intended to be taken down like a typical two piece cue.


Yes, I agree it doesn't look like it was designed to be taken down. I
can't comment further. It's a little too pretty to be a post-1970 house
cue.

"Steve B" wrote in message ...


"CW" wrote in message
m...


"Steve B" wrote in message ...

"Artemus" wrote

How about posting a pic of the joint?
Art


after I wrote:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

Go to the flickr page above. There are three pictures. The one on the
right that says joint is the picture of the joint.
================================================== =========================
Unless I have forgotten how to count, there are two pictures.

I went and checked. The middle one is MIA, but there definitely one there
of the joint. And it is plainly labeled. And it is clearly a picture of a
joint on a pool stick.
================================================== =====================
That's not what I saw the other day.

On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:36:50 -0400, "Mike Marlow"
wrote:

Steve B wrote:
"Bill" wrote in message
...
On 4/2/2012 7:34 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Steve B wrote:
wrote

How about posting a pic of the joint?
Art


after I wrote:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

Go to the flickr page above. There are three pictures. The one on
the right that says joint is the picture of the joint.


Nope - only two pictures.

2 pictures here too. Maybe that's his April Fool's joke?

Just went there again. Try the little arrow on the bottom slider to
bring the third into view. If that don't work, I'll delete the other
two. I think you just have to slide the viewer.

Steve

No slider Steve. Click on any picture and flicr only indicates 2 pictures
to view. Click on slideshow and only two pictures show up. You have to
accept what people are telling you. There are not three pictures that we
can see. Try hitting your own link from you post, and see what we see.

I've always wondered why Steve didn't leave ANY of his older pics up
there. The pics are always -only- what he is talking about today, but
even that didn't happen this time. Confusing.

--
Life is an escalator:
You can move forward or backward;
you can not remain still.
-- Patricia Russell-McCloud

"Steve B" wrote in message ...

"Artemus" wrote in message ...

"Steve B" wrote in message
...

"Artemus" wrote

How about posting a pic of the joint?
Art


after I wrote:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

Go to the flickr page above. There are three pictures. The one on the right
that says joint is the picture of the joint.

Steve
I only see 2 pics - tip & rosewood.
Art

I just went there. Slide the slider. There's a third pic on the right that may
not show up on a smaller screen shot.

Steve
I did that yesterday and there were only 2 pics.
Today there is only 1 pic(wood joint) no matter how much
I move the sliders.
Art

"Artemus" wrote in message
...

"Steve B" wrote in message
...

"Artemus" wrote in message
...

"Steve B" wrote in message
...

"Artemus" wrote

How about posting a pic of the joint?
Art


after I wrote:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

Go to the flickr page above. There are three pictures. The one on the
right that says joint is the picture of the joint.

Steve
I only see 2 pics - tip & rosewood.
Art

I just went there. Slide the slider. There's a third pic on the right
that may not show up on a smaller screen shot.

Steve
I did that yesterday and there were only 2 pics.
Today there is only 1 pic(wood joint) no matter how much
I move the sliders.
Art

So, did you finally see the one of the joint?

Steve

"Steve B" wrote in message ...

"Artemus" wrote in message ...

"Steve B" wrote in message
...

"Artemus" wrote in message ...

"Steve B" wrote in message
...

"Artemus" wrote

How about posting a pic of the joint?
Art


after I wrote:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

Go to the flickr page above. There are three pictures. The one on the right
that says joint is the picture of the joint.

Steve
I only see 2 pics - tip & rosewood.
Art

I just went there. Slide the slider. There's a third pic on the right that may
not show up on a smaller screen shot.

Steve
I did that yesterday and there were only 2 pics.
Today there is only 1 pic(wood joint) no matter how much
I move the sliders.
Art

So, did you finally see the one of the joint?

Steve
Yes.
Art

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/
There are three pictures. The one on
the right that says joint is the picture of the joint.

Just so you know ... I only see one picture, the joint. No slider.

Nope - only two pictures.

Odd that some see one, two or three pictures.

Just went there again. Try the little arrow on the bottom slider to bring
the third into view. If that don't work, I'll delete the other two. I
think you just have to slide the viewer.
Steve

I still only see one with no slider. At least it's the joint!

On 4/2/2012 12:09 PM, Bill wrote:
On 4/1/2012 5:49 PM, Steve B wrote:
I got an old looking one piece pool cue the other day. It looks like a
combination of maple and rosewood. 1/3 rosewood, 2/3 maple. It has a
piece
of ferritic metal at the joint, as a supermagnet sticks on it. This
had to
be made in two pieces. All the old house cues I've seen had the wood
coming
to points. I have never seen one like this with a joint.

Look at it at :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

and post any comments. I'm guessing 1940's.

Not worth anything, just interesting.

Steve



I think it's held together with, basically, a piece of threaded steel
rod (I'm sure there's a name for such a connector).

Yeah, they are called joints, and are only used in multi-piece cues, far
as I know. One piece cues don't have, or need a threaded metal joint.
If a one piece cue has a threaded metal joint, it is either stuck, or
someone glued it together, making it harder to steal than a two piece cue.

The black gasket
probably helps avoid all sorts of nasty things that could happen (from
wood being twisted against wood in opposing directions) if it were not
there. I don't think it was a "house cue" (why have a 2-piece house cue?)

House cue means the cue is available to everyone in the "house" and has
nothing at all to do with how many pieces the cue has. There is a Fox
and Hound pool room where I live that has all two piece house cues. I
would guess the main reason few house cues are two piece is anyone could
easily break them down, stick one in their pool case and take it home,
making it their own "personal" cue as opposed to a "house" cue. A bit
harder to walk out with a one piece 60" "house cue".

As for reasons to have two piece house cues, for me, the shaft is easier
to stick in my lathe and do maintenance.

Anyway, I never could see a picture of the cue Steve supposedly posted.
All I got was a picture titled "pool square footage".

--
Jack
Add Life to your Days not Days to your Life.
http://jbstein.com

"Jack" wrote

Anyway, I never could see a picture of the cue Steve supposedly posted.
All I got was a picture titled "pool square footage".

--
Jack

Sorry, Jack. After the discussion dropped off, I posted another pic that
had to do with a math problem.

Steve