hunt and o'byrne black label

[karl parris]

hello there,i have a couple of hunt and o'byrne cues,1 green plate which is hand made and 1 black plate which looks to be machine spliced.my question is is it unusaul to have a machine spliced black plate.

[ste bed]

they dont do a machine spliced black plate try ringing themand find out

[biankez]

Yes , there is an english player in my club in Paris and he has a machine spliced cue with black plate.

[khizzy]

not possible,either its hand made or a fake.

[karl parris]

well its not fake because i was with the person who bought it from hunt and o'byrne when he picked it up in 1990

[khizzy]

well its not fake because i was with the person who bought it from hunt and o'byrne when he picked it up in 1990

try looking at the splices,the splices on hand made cues are different from the machine made ones.

[karl parris]

splices are pointed wich i thought means its machine made

[khizzy]

never heard of a machine made black plate before,they must have made them back in the day

[karl parris]

may be, im not in touch with the person who bought it.he might have asked for it to be that way?

[KeithinFrance]

may be, im not in touch with the person who bought it.he might have asked for it to be that way?

I imagine that that would be possible, why not? Another posibility would be that their machine-spliced cues had black printing on the badges anyway; nobody could mistake one of them for a top-of-the-range cue!!

[ste bed]

i think keith maybe right i think all the early hunt and obyrne snooker cues had all the same badges on before they started putting different badges on for differnet model cues.