Spotted on eBay

[narl]

Maybe they were trying to replicate Jimmy's H&O cue midway through it's transformation?

When a cue has a round butt they put the badge higher up on the butt, i can only assume its due to the badge needing to go in deeper if it were in the usual location the sd joint hole would probably interfere with the hole for the badge, or split the wood at that point, so they place it higher to avoid it.

[DeanH]

oops your right, numbers eh

dyscalculia
a friend has it and it really does us in when we have a pub quiz

[Delphi]

oops your right, numbers eh

[DeanH]

thought yours was 1186?

[Delphi]

1170?
Wow closest number i heard to my 1168

[DeanH]

I have heard that 1170 was Jimmy's cue and it went to China when he sold it.

Think it was ADR who to me the above.

[trying]

That one with the bad badge and butt went up to ?270.
in the meantime a new one appeared on ebay, looks a bit suspicious if you ask me, badge that high up and round butt, what do you experts think?
https://www.benl.ebay.be/itm/324182818111

There was a similar cue badged Ultimate 1170 up for sale for ?8k recently alleged to be Jimmy's cue but I'm told thats it's not

[DeanH]

Ok Dean, probably sold now, i see it's not longer available, wasn't interested anyway, i got plenty, just wondered because it looks different.
Strange also that this #1130 seemed to be the so called 'red glue' model and my 1186 isn't.

He most have switched around that time.
I wonder how many actually leave the shop each year in total, all models.

JP did change glue around this time (~2006/7) yes, but there was not a clean divide in the numbers though

[Delphi]

round butt - not common but known
high badge - unusual but known

Ok Dean, probably sold now, i see it's not longer available, wasn't interested anyway, i got plenty, just wondered because it looks different.
Strange also that this #1130 seemed to be the so called 'red glue' model and my 1186 isn't.

He most have switched around that time.
I wonder how many actually leave the shop each year in total, all models.

[Mark187187]

round butt - not common but known
high badge - unusual but known

Maybe they were trying to replicate Jimmy's H&O cue midway through it's transformation?

[DeanH]

round butt - not common but known
high badge - unusual but known

[Delphi]

That one with the bad badge and butt went up to ?270.
in the meantime a new one appeared on ebay, looks a bit suspicious if you ask me, badge that high up and round butt, what do you experts think?
https://www.benl.ebay.be/itm/324182818111

[Delphi]

it's already up to ?200, 3 days to go still, i suspect the buyer will have to spend a amount to have it fixed too, it really looks pretty bad on the pictures.

[DeanH]

The joint looks ok but that badge has been done by an apprentice novice.

an apprentice would do better than that!
been done by BillyDodgeySeller

[John Flaf]

The chevrons don't line up with the flat, could be he didn't tighten it up enough but that would put me off.