fake ebony

[perpetualboredom]

Understand the idea of that but not understanding how that works in practice.
When you're refinishing, you're taking off a tiny fraction of the surface - when you plain the splices you're taking off much more?
Also I wouldn't think the dye would penetrate the wood much at all unless it was pressure impregnated?

[golferson123]

not hard to dye wood and keep it localised

[vmax4steve]

not hard to dye wood and keep it localised

Of course it is, that fine line definition between the black splice tips and the white maple shaft can be applied using a dye that seeps into wood rather than a paint that lies on the surface.

[golferson123]

Of course it is, that fine line definition between the black splice tips and the white maple shaft can be applied using a dye that seeps into wood rather than a paint that lies on the surface.

no its not done it many times

[vmax4steve]

no its not done it many times

Prove it rather than contradict, explain the process, show pictures, I'm all ears and keen to learn, could save me a small fortune on ebony.

[bolton-cueman]

Prove it rather than contradict, explain the process, show pictures, I'm all ears and keen to learn, could save me a small fortune on ebony.

if only you did the same thing when you're spouting your coaching 'advice'

[Alex Gara]

Quite interesting when you look at the Tiger Leisure website. They absolutely guarantee their cues and wood quality.

From the website:

"TIGER CUES: All Tiger Cues are hand made with either genuine North American Mountain Ash or Canadian Maple then spliced with genuine African ebony and a variety of ornate and attractive natural woods. None of our Cues HAVE ANY BLACK painted-up or covered up woods to look like ebony. Nor do they have any of that horrid thick clear lacquer some makers adorn on their cues. We are proud of our cues and assure any prospective customer they will be more than happy with the build quality and finish, especially with our extremely low pricing."

"Our range of Tiger Cues are sublime and we 'MONEY BACK' guarantee the quailty of ALL our cues. We absolutlry know all our customers will be happy with their purchase."

Looks like any cue bought from them with Fake ebony would have to be refunded.
What a shame that we have to be suspicious of almost anything we buy nowadays, from food to cues, you may never know what is truly in them.