A friend and teammate used to import them, but no longer does, nor likes to play with his, preferring to play with an old McDermott break cue. Tried a handful over the years, all very well-made, usually beautiful to look at, but in terms of playability, near-impossible to adjust to, among other with a deflection behaviour we tought totally erratic and thus hard to control especially on the modern cloth (mostly Simonis 760 and 860) normally in use here. Which appears to be why the first batches apparently sold well, but not the following (that is, once prospective buyers got the gist/there were a few cues out there for them to try). Not sure what the problem is, my friend suspected the combination of "toughening" factors such ebony forearms, steel joints, ivory ferrules - not per se unusual, though…
Greetings from Switzerland, David.
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