Little bit of emergency Cue Surgery

[Maxsys]

So my son plays with my grandads (now deceased) old Joe Davis 147 cue, last week at the club one of the splices split almost clean off, so a bit of surgery was required, used Titebond glue and several clamps from the shed, should al be good again, the split was totally clean.

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[jb134]

Jobs got no chance mate. You've not used enough clamps.

[cyberheater]

Well it's true what they say. Every man has his vice :wink:

[golferson123]

seen a real nasty injury once with that!not nice

[jb134]

Well it's true what they say. Every man has his vice :wink:

Get a grip!

[Maverick54]

Loving the empty pint glass lol. Was the point of that splice level with the other before you had a drink

[Maxsys]

Water, not beer yes level, but the tip of the splice was already damaged when my son got the cue, will put up some more picks later when i take the clamps off

[Maxsys]

Ok clamps off, looks OK bit if sanding and oiling and we should be good to go, notice the damage to the tip of the splice, cue has been like this since we got it from my dad, he says it was like this when my Grandad had it as well. He also had a lead weight under the badge, and it is a 2501 not a 147 as i had previously posted.IMG_0561.jpgIMG_0563.jpgIMG_0565.jpg

[cyberheater]

Ok clamps off, looks OK bit if sanding and oiling and we should be good to go, notice the damage to the tip of the splice, cue has been like this since we got it from my dad, he says it was like this when my Grandad had it as well. He also had a lead weight under the badge, and it is a 2501 not a 147 as i had previously posted.[ATTACH=CONFIG]15547[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]15548[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]15549[/ATTACH]

Nice job. The cue has got character.

[narl]

Seem to get lifting splices pretty frequently in older cues, though I've not seen one come totally off like that. Usually the tips of them go or maybe an inch at most.

[Maxsys]

Yes like i said the splice tip has always been like that, i suspect it had been glued down before at some point in the distant past, my son played a shot last week, not particularly hard and the whole lot split, all the way down. Totally clean split with nothing left from the splice on the cue, it must be something to do with the glue that was used.

[Shockerz]

Happened to an old Riley of mine, main splice sheared straight off (tried to upload picture but probably don't have enough posts yet as won't let me browse pc).

I wonder if it's a common problem or just the fact that there were thousands of these cues and lots got stored badly over the years.

Brings back a few memories of no central heating and ice on the inside of the window. I wonder where the guys put their beloved cues in them days!!

[perpetualboredom]

Quite a common issue I've seen - I blame the glue.
I sold and posted someone a Riley Burwat that was fine when I played with it, the buyer contacted me a day or two later saying they'd played a shot with it and the whole machine splice butt seemed to be coming off. I refunded the buyer and they returned the cue and sure enough a heafty pull and the shaft and butt came comepletely appart!
Also had a lovely hornbeam J Ashcroft cue with a 12mm tip I'd been using for 9 ball, played a shot with it once day and glanced at the butt and two of the splices had split about half way down.

Craftsman cues repaired both, you'd never know anything had happened to them.

[Shockerz]

I see lots of old round badged cues where the bit of ebony below the badge has come off.

I purchased a John Parris 3 years ago where I was holding the cue vertical ready to play a shot (butt about a foot off the ground), dropped it as I went to step forward and a few minutes later, guess what, the piece below the badge had come off.

I spoke to them as I had the cue made about two months prior and they said it isn't a flaw and would costs £75 + postage etc.

I've seen people smash their cues on the ground (including my brother who also has a £600 JP cue and it hasn't hapened to his so I would have thought it to be a flaw, what do you think, is it reasonable?

[itsnoteasy]

I'm not sure Mark, but if you dropped it I'm guessing they are within their rights to say you have miss used the cue so you broke it, rather than there being a fault with it, as what you did is not what could be called reasonable use of the cue, if it were a 3/4 split you dropped it and the joint broke would you call that fault .