screaminglemon
02-24-2004, 06:43 PM
i just got the Lucasi L-E15 19oz and its an absolutely beautiful cue. i just have some questions about the materials. Seyberts doesnt give any discription on their page but a competitors website states:
...with a purple heart forearm with four floating bone ivory points and eight ebony inlays surrounded by bone ivory. The butt is purple heart with four bone ivory inlays and eight ebony inlays surrounded by bone ivory. There are three sets of ebony and bone ivory rings surrounded by nickel silver...
Now all but a couple of the Lucasi models on said site specifically state the the inlays are "imitation bone ivory". so could this possibly mean that the L-E15 is one of 2 or 3 Lucasi cues with "real" bone ivory inlays or is this just a case of a lazy typist on this other website? also, every description i could find on the L-E15 claims it to have a purple heart forearm and butt but when i took the rubber bumper off the butt of the cue to check out the weight bolt (which by the way was not there) the core of the butt looked suspiciously like maple (very whitish yellowy, and deffinately not purple heart). i know little about the specifics of cue construction so please forgive a stupid question. is it common or nessesary to have a maple core in an "exotic wood" butt like purple heart or cocobolo or what have you? and is that what im seeing (a maple core surrounded by purple heart)? or is it ^gasp^ solid maple with purple stain? i really hope not as that would be almost too much to bare.
and please dont jump on me about being picky about real or imitation bone ivory as it really doesnt matter that much to me. i just dont want to sound like a jacka** when i show em off to my buds.
hopefully seyberts or someone out there has access to the official Lucasi catalog (if there is such a thing) as there is no Lucasi website to refrence.
...with a purple heart forearm with four floating bone ivory points and eight ebony inlays surrounded by bone ivory. The butt is purple heart with four bone ivory inlays and eight ebony inlays surrounded by bone ivory. There are three sets of ebony and bone ivory rings surrounded by nickel silver...
Now all but a couple of the Lucasi models on said site specifically state the the inlays are "imitation bone ivory". so could this possibly mean that the L-E15 is one of 2 or 3 Lucasi cues with "real" bone ivory inlays or is this just a case of a lazy typist on this other website? also, every description i could find on the L-E15 claims it to have a purple heart forearm and butt but when i took the rubber bumper off the butt of the cue to check out the weight bolt (which by the way was not there) the core of the butt looked suspiciously like maple (very whitish yellowy, and deffinately not purple heart). i know little about the specifics of cue construction so please forgive a stupid question. is it common or nessesary to have a maple core in an "exotic wood" butt like purple heart or cocobolo or what have you? and is that what im seeing (a maple core surrounded by purple heart)? or is it ^gasp^ solid maple with purple stain? i really hope not as that would be almost too much to bare.
and please dont jump on me about being picky about real or imitation bone ivory as it really doesnt matter that much to me. i just dont want to sound like a jacka** when i show em off to my buds.
hopefully seyberts or someone out there has access to the official Lucasi catalog (if there is such a thing) as there is no Lucasi website to refrence.