mistery cue

[denden0479]

hello,
sorry for my english if there are strange faults in it
i have recived a cue that i have thats from my grand dad, he past away and my grandmother gave me his biljard and snooker cue's i have 7 cue's now.
But,
there's a realy cool nice old one in it. (my grandmothers seys thats its from there wedding, 86 years ago, i think thats not possible)

Its a ful carbon snooker cue, i think that becose it have a smaller tip at the top. Its from the company karakal.

I did some researce but i can not find annything on the internet even no pictures of it, only there is a company karakal started in 1978 in Dendermonde Belgium, they say that ther old logo went til 2002 & and i think its the same company but they sell badminton rackets and tennis rackets. I think there now located in England.

I tryd to send a email to them but i can not send pictures to them.
Now is my question? and i wil put the pictures of the cue on my profile.

1- dos enybody now something about this cue?
2- what is the correct age of it?
3- what is it worth and is it rare? (the worth is just for me to know, its my granddads, i wil keep it forever. proberly give it to my childeren when i die and play with it some times)

i hope sombody now some information abouth this cue
allready thanks

[denden0479]

here you can see the pictures i hope from the cue

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/515732594825009741/

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/515732594825009732/


https://www.pinterest.com/pin/515732594825009727/

[DeanH]

not heard of this Karakal

I don't think these are very old, 80s most probably
but a friend had a "carbon" cue and he thought it was solid carbon fibre but turned out to be only a carbon wrap around a wooden core. He only found this out when he snapped it

welcome to TSF by the way.

What are the other cues did you get from your Gramps?

[denden0479]

hello, thanks i think its a real carbon cue i think, becose if you look to the inside of the cue its al the same black hard stuf (the carbon), and i know how real carbon looks like, i have a lot of carbon on my motorcycle, i wil try to make a picture of the inside of the cue that you can see what i mean, and make some pictures of the other ones, i know there is 1 ceulemans cue in it, but i wil post more pictures this evening.
thanks allready

[Mark187187]

Hi. They photo says wood/graphite,. So it would have a wooden core. I have a squash racket made by the same company, and it was cheap, maybe £20. The black at the joint is probably a hard phenolic plastic insert to strenghen the joint.

[denden0479]

ok, thanks that makes sense somwhere, i find a very light cue olso. i stil like it
thanks again