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Cue No. 960: |
Frank Paradise |
$ 4,995.00 |
Weight: |
20 oz |
Shafts: |
(2) 12.75 < |
Length: |
57 1/2" |
Joint: |
5/16-18, nickle silver, standard Paradise collars |
Forearm: |
Burton Spain blank. 4 ebony points with black, orange and green veneers. Offset prong inlay pattern of 4 slotted MOP diamonds and 5 MOP Dots. 9 rings above wrap. |
Butt: |
Ebony with a Diamond King inlay pattern of 24 MOP. Original Paradise foil window. |
Wrap: |
White with green spec linen, new |
Rings: |
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General: |
Great Diamond King, rewrapped by Dan Dishaw who did a great job. Cue is very straight. It's an exceptional piece that is getting very hard to find. Cue comes with an original case. See entire cue click here... |
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Cue No. 957: |
Frank Paradise |
$ 1,950.00 |
Weight: |
20.6 oz |
Shafts: |
(1) 12.65 < |
Length: |
57" |
Joint: |
5/16-18, nickle silver, standard Paradise collars |
Forearm: |
Converted titlist, rosewood, standard titlist colors, 4 MOP dots, 4 slotted MOP diamonds. |
Butt: |
Hi and low rings, blue acrylic, white phenolic, brass, black phenolic, then a window. The window foil, was changed, as told to us, by George Balabushka. |
Wrap: |
Original black linen hi and low, cortland white/green center. |
Rings: |
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General: |
Dan Dishaw cleaned the wrap and polished the cue.. Great example and all original. If you are a collector, you need to have a Paradise in your collection. His stylings and inlays, as were Balabushka's, were the start of the modern era of cue design. See entire cue click here. |
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Cue No. 956: |
Frank Paradise |
$ 1,600.00 |
Weight: |
17.6 oz |
Shafts: |
(2) 12.75 < |
Length: |
57" |
Joint: |
5/16-18, nickle silver, standard Paradise collars |
Forearm: |
Converted titlist, rosewood (great grain) standard titlist colors, very vivid |
Butt: |
Rosewood with small standard Paradise butt plate. |
Wrap: |
White with green spec linen, new |
Rings: |
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General: |
Cue was purchased at SBE 2010 and it plays fantastic. Extremely rare plain conversion. Cue was refinished years ago, it has a little finish over the joint/collar seam and I showed it to Tascarella and he said possibly his, but it would be from a long time ago. Wrap put on by Dan Dishaw. Butt is 100% straight, fantastic player. Possibly the joint screrw was changed or polished, butt cap seems to be original as well as the weight bolt. This is a straight up playing cue. |
| Frank Paradise |
Frank Paradise was from
the cradle of east coast cuemaking in the 60's. That being the NY/NJ
area. Never had any single area had the two most talked about cuemakers
in a 25 mile radius. Paradise and Balabushka, if you didn't have
one of these cues, you might as well have been shooting with a broom
handle. Frank used mother of pearl and did for cues, what Martin
did for guitars. His use of acrylic/catalin/bakelite plastics revolutionized
the art of cuemaking. You can say he was way before his time. Metal,
sure, aluminum, brass, stainless, there wasn't a metal he didn't
like. Some of Franks innovations, clear window name plate with foil,
screw off ferrules, pinning the joint metal.
He employed some of the
area's best talent. You might have heard of them, Eugene and Peter
Balner, Karl Mayer, Mike Ferdunka, Jack Colavita.
His cues are the most often
under appreciated cues. But they are coming on fast, from his plain
window cues to his Diamond Kings. They are just starting to get
to the prices and into the collections they have long been missing
from. If you collect these period cues, you must have a Paradise.
Frank made some of the most
unusual, gaudy, and some of the classiest sticks of his time. But
not much is known about Frank, but we were able to dig up an article
that appeared in the National Bowlers Journal and Billiard Revue,
dated October 1964. Enjoy.....
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