Over painting of splices

[louise sheldon]

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Many mass produced cues have there splices over painted to hide whats underneath whether its bad splicing, filling or cracks or even poor ebony. these pics are of a powerglide purist that ii have been asked to re finish, normally i would not strip these back, but as this cue has been left in an attic and the lacquer has shrunk back i agreed to do it. i will post more pics later at different stages. i just hope that its ok underneath. i did have a painted BCE cue once that had some chips out of it so i stripped it back as they were too big to cover up and underneath was a nice hand spliced cue!! don't know why BCE did this but the customer was well pleased!! You can tell if the cue has been painted over as you cannot see the natural grain

[haggishunter]

That's nuts.

[narl]

Over painting of splices

Very weird.

[warren132]

To be hones i think the cue will look 100 times better with all that nasty varnish off it ! think they are genuine ebony underneath but just how good quality shall remain to be seen. Be interesting to say the least to see the end results....

[Dave Walton]

Amazes me that cue makers can do things like that :-$

[Exile]

Over painting of splices

Insert brain fart here. Not sure what to say at this point other than tell the lad to scrap it and get a real cue.

[DeanH]

It will be interesting to see what Dave Coutts finds under all that lacquer/paint?
It could be a nice cue after all before it is scrapped

[platt]

Ive had the misfourtune to do the same thing to an old purist about 20 years ago, it gets worse the more u strip away, the one i stripped was so badly spliced and the cue was destoryed there must have been 3mm thickness of lacqure on it....send it back and save yourself the aggro and dust.

[MikeWooldridge]

Over painting of splices

I stripped a purist 20 odd years ago and underneath was a machine spliced butt.

Fair play, pretty impressive paint/lacquer job

[louise sheldon]

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having finally stripped off lacquer and sanded to 180 and taken pictures, all splices are ebony but not all black ebony. one of the splices has these oil like spots on which i have seen in ebony before from time to time and it makes finishing the cue a nightmare

[the nugget]

nice job though its not hard to see why the painting and lacquering was done fairly uneven splicework there tho youll prob have it looking v-smart by the time youre done with it.

[jlowap]

Over painting of splices

This is amazing I'm looking forward to see the finished item!

[the nugget]

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having finally stripped off lacquer and sanded to 180 and taken pictures, all splices are ebony but not all black ebony. one of the splices has these oil like spots on which i have seen in ebony before from time to time and it makes finishing the cue a nightmare

Hi Dave is it possible to even up these splices or rather is it a lot of work to do so?

[narl]

Hi Dave is it possible to even up these splices or rather is it a lot of work to do so?

Probably just have to redo them from the looks of it, im struggling to see how they managed to get them that far out, looks like one piece of the splice wood was a couple of inches shother than the rest.

[bigandyg]

Bought a nice hand spliced ash/ebony a few months ago and decided to add on an extra splice and it turned out it was a cheap rosewood in below the splices.It was still quite nice though.