I've been really enjoying my new Vigus and I'm glad you like the cue. It does have a pretty sweet hit!
What is best CUSTOM CUE FOR YOU?
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I've been really enjoying my new Vigus and I'm glad you like the cue. It does have a pretty sweet hit!
For greyghost
greyghost,
The cue I had Richard Black make me back in 1978 was like the first cue in this link. It came with two shafts and ivory ferrules. I paid Richard $175 to make it.
It had a white/green speck Irish linen wrap.
http://www.blackcues.com/traditional_cues.shtml
http://www.blackcues.com/traditional_cues/four_point.shtml
greyghost,
The cue I had Richard Black make me back in 1978 was like the first cue in this link. It came with two shafts and ivory ferrules. I paid Richard $175 to make it.
It had a white/green speck Irish linen wrap.
http://www.blackcues.com/traditional_cues.shtml
http://www.blackcues.com/traditional_cues/four_point.shtml
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have two of his shafts, ivory ferrules. they play wonderfully. nice cue ya had there bud. I'm lucky or retarted lol, I still own every cue i've ever purchased to play with, except my first which was a Mcdermott, sold it to my best friend when I graduated HS. I've only sold one that i bought to really just check out. It was the first JD blank PFD and second one he did with the scallop MOP in buttsleeve. Wasn't much impressed with it, looked great....played kinda dead to me....much too soft even though it had plenty of spine....stainless joint too so that struck me as strange, figured it would hit more lively than it did. Sure was pretty though, balance was more forward, 19 or so from cap. Some one one here picked it up i believe.
I still hit balls with other makers when i have the opportunity. I like my southwest alot, not as much as anything Joel ever made me though (weinstock, retired) and i really would love to own a tascarella eventually (will happen)
A norwella was given to me years ago, it was pretty....pin was crooked as all shit.
Had a meucci sneaky when iwas a teen for a bit....hated the thing...too whippy.
so i removed the ferrule....cut the tennon down and turned down a piece of oak from some cane work i had been doing and installed the wooden ferrule.
played really good after that actually....i had won the dam thing off a guy lol. Sold it years ago....shoulda kept it was my first cue modification
prior to learning to make them.i've shot alot and or owned some :
Jerry R's (great)
hueblers (good/great depending)
schon (old are great)
meucci (junk)
weinstock (favorite taper besides my own)
pfd (meh)
adams (meh/some fantastic ones)
brunswick (same as adams)
katz (house cue...awesome)
ae schmitt (housecue...awesome)
cuetek with fiberglass or wood shaft can get the job done....rather a wooden shaft cuetek over meucci even if meucci was paying me to play with one lol
unknowns
palmers (good some great)
schick (for me....not much better than meucci in how it feels and responds in hit...garbage)
Skip Weston (good/great)
jensen (good/great)
phillippe (better than expected, point work disappointed me, and didnt care for taper that much but it played super and jumped easily actually)
Sheldon Lebow (solid very good player, not my fav designs but cues play real well)
Deanocs wooden joint cue suited me just fine the few weeks he let me use one.....wonderful feel and hit, full of life.
the cues i build for myself play best for me. hands down. they will eat your children....but it could just be nepotism
-Greyghost
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I just talked to Richard and he is building me a new shaft with an ivory ferrule for the cue I'm using as a player now. It is a 1950s Titlist that I had Mike Pancerny convert for me a couple years ago.
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=281865&highlight=pancerny
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=279468&highlight=pancerny
I have two McDermott's.
--A C-14 from the 1980-84 catalog that I bought new. I recently had it refinished by Mcdermott and it looks brand new and they made me another shaft with matching ringwork.
--I have the RS-11 that C. J. Wiley used to beat Earl Strickland for first place in the 1996 Million Dollar Challenge Tournament. That was the same tournament where Earl ran the eleven racks for the million dollars. Earl took second. I bought the cue off C. J.
I have an old A. E. Schmidt cue that I bought brand new in 1973 from the company in St. Louis. It was made from a Titlist blank and still is in good shape, but it has TONS of play on it and I'm going to send it to Ryan (RAT) to get spruced up a bit.
It has so much red plastic in the butt sleeve that it looks like the tail lights of a 1950s Buick coming down the road.
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=273273&highlight=hawaiianeye+schmidt
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Billiardbd
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That's the great thing about custom cues, they are custom for you the player. What you love someone else might hate. The best is what you play best with! All of these guys are really good!
Is it common place here to vote more than once in the same poll when voting for your favorite (one) cue or shaft..etc..?
It seems to me that voting once for one brand and then voting a second time for a different brand would skew the results and confuse or even mislead people that have not had a chance to hit or play those particular cues/shafts.
Like most of you I too have more than one brand cue that I like but I only have ONE favorite with several others that come a very close second, third..etc. Therefore, I vote for the ONE favorite that was ask of me from the list or choose OTHER and then reveal the brand in a post.
It seems to me that voting once for one brand and then voting a second time for a different brand would skew the results and confuse or even mislead people that have not had a chance to hit or play those particular cues/shafts.
Like most of you I too have more than one brand cue that I like but I only have ONE favorite with several others that come a very close second, third..etc. Therefore, I vote for the ONE favorite that was ask of me from the list or choose OTHER and then reveal the brand in a post.
a lot of other cuemakers here......................
MalibuMike
Banned
What No Burt Schrager?
Wow, what a lame as list! No Burt Schrager, no Tim Padgett, No Kent Davies!!!!!!!
Jezz, my Runde Schon's hit better and look better then most of that list!
Wow, what a lame as list! No Burt Schrager, no Tim Padgett, No Kent Davies!!!!!!!
Jezz, my Runde Schon's hit better and look better then most of that list!
MalibuMike
Banned
hows it plays
wish to update this thread. very informative
Hmmm...
Truly a lot has been missed here...
Also, if we are including makers from the PI, Black Pearl cues (BlackPearlMaker) should've made the list. No disrespect to JD and Bebot (Mervin) but Al has a pristine track record.
But since he's not on this list and some of the makers in "other" are hall of famers or soon to be, I am glad Keith Josey was in this. Easy vote.
Truly a lot has been missed here...
Also, if we are including makers from the PI, Black Pearl cues (BlackPearlMaker) should've made the list. No disrespect to JD and Bebot (Mervin) but Al has a pristine track record.
But since he's not on this list and some of the makers in "other" are hall of famers or soon to be, I am glad Keith Josey was in this.
Easy vote.
In my opinion, less than half of the truly great custom cue-makers made that somewhat arbitrary list, and many on the list were/are much less than great.
My favorites on the list are Sugartree and Southwest.
My favorites not on the list are Burton Spain, Zylr, Tucker and Tibbitts.
I suspect Hercek cues are amazing, as friends who have similar taste love them; however, I have never had the good fortune of hitting with one.
My favorites on the list are Sugartree and Southwest.
My favorites not on the list are Burton Spain, Zylr, Tucker and Tibbitts.
I suspect Hercek cues are amazing, as friends who have similar taste love them; however, I have never had the good fortune of hitting with one.
