Minions pay for the "Custom" name. Thats how they stay in business.
The only thing you get with a "custom" cue is a custom high priced custom "paint job."
A "custom" cue won't make you play any better. Chrome don't get ya home.
How many "crooked" cue shafts have you purchased/played with?
Please tell us who made it? Enquiring minds want to know.
You can usually find at least a handful of "straight" house cues in most places.
At the end of the day...it's ALWAYS the Wizard, not the Wand. Maybe you should try one of those shaft's made form vintage bowling alley wood?
Practice, Practice, Practice is always the answer.
The balls get racked by the Ref in an old fashioned triangle. Once the Ref racks 'em you are on the "shot clock" you can "examine" all you want, but it won't be re-racked and it's cutting into your breaking time, that would mitigate all this nonsense.
Get on with it and stop mucking around.
I'm not a real "expert" on three cushion billiards. With that said, I've never seen Raymond Ceulemans, Torbjörn Blomdahl, or Efren Reyes use a cuing glove in a 3 cushion match.
I may be wrong. :scratchhead: