Sold August 2003 to Craig.
本桿在2003年8月售於Craig先生。
This cue is 64 13/16 inches long and weighs 19.15 ounces.
本桿長64。813英寸﹐重19。15盎司。
It has a 30 inch Predator 314 shaft and a inch butt. $1,550.00
它配有一根30英寸長的Predator 314前節。原售價為1550美金。
Now that I make a shaft that has even less deflection than the Predator shafts, I make all of my shafts the exact same lengths as the butts. For example a 66 inch cue would have a 33 inch cue butt and shafts of equal length.
如今我研製出一種比Predator前節防止母球偏向性能更好的前節﹐這樣我可以把前節的長度製成與後節的一樣。 譬如﹐一根長為66英寸的球桿的前後兩節長度都是33英寸。
It also has a 3/8-10 brass pin into wood and a flat-faced wood to wood joint for a solid wood feel.
本桿配有3/8-10黃銅結合螺絲。它的前後節結合為木材平面對應。擊打手感厚實穩重。
This cue has 34 rings in the butt and uses two RARE WOODS with the super birdseye maple.
本桿後節配有34道裝飾環。木材為超級鳥眼楓木與兩種稀有木材。
My woods are bought from old houses that are being torn down. I do not support illegal logging. You heard it first here in 2002.
我的木材來源於我所購買的一棟被推倒的老房子。我從不支持非法砍伐樹木。早在2002年我已申明了這一立場。
The cue was still not finished when these photos were taken. It needed two more layers of polyurethane to smooth out.
在拍攝這些照片時本桿尚未完工。為光潔它還需要塗上兩層聚亞安脂。
Here is what this cue looks like when the customer sent it back for me to put some inlays and shorten it some so he could use it without hitting the walls in his home. I shortened it 2.5 inches down to 63 inches long and put 48 black rare wood diamonds in the highly figured birdseye handle.
以下圖片顯示為當本桿買主把它寄回給我時的樣子。這位顧客需要我加配一些鑲嵌並把球桿縮短﹐ 這樣在家裡練球時球桿不會碰到牆壁。我把它縮短了2。5英寸並在華麗鳥眼楓木握柄中安放了48枚黑色稀有木材菱形。 現桿重63英寸。
Notice that after playing with the cue for over a year that the metal rings had not broken the finish.
請注意經歷了一年多的使用桿上的金屬環光澤依舊。
I also fixed it to get more spin for him, which he said it definitely does do. He shoots from a wheel chair since being wounded in Vietnam and said he tried to back up the cue ball for his first shot a full table length and overdrew it and it bounced off of the bottom cushion. He said it definitely gets more spin than it did before. Even before he sent it to me to add inlays it got more spin than any cue he had ever shot with.
經過改良﹐本桿產生的旋轉增強了。買主深有同感。從在越南戰爭中受傷之後﹐他只能坐在輪椅上打球。 他告訴我拿到改進過的球桿以後他第一桿拉桿就把母球拉回了整張臺。他說球桿產生的旋轉肯定增強了。 即使在本桿沒有被改良以前﹐它也是買主所使用過的產生旋轉最強的球桿
All of the woods, except for the highly figured birdseye maple, are rare Philippine hard-woods and two of them are in the top five most rare woods in the world. More rare than Thuya.
本桿所用的所有木材﹐除了華麗鳥眼楓木外﹐都是產自菲律賓的珍稀硬木。 其中有兩種位列世界五大稀有木材之中。它們比金鐘柏木更名貴。