Johnnybgood
Banned
At the point in which I hit that cue I already determined that it would probably be the last Josey cue I ever purchased. What is Keith going to do? Change the hit of my cue? You started this by telling me how the solid "thud" was the way a cue was supposed to play. So be it. That's your "knowledge". Mine might be a little different. I am a player. Not a maker or designer and Keith is not my friend and I don't subscribe to cliques. I have seen your posts and watched you try to walk over people for there designs. I like to be on here for the information. Like I said in my posts I have been on a Hiatus for a while for various reasons. To be perfectly honest I didn't take my ques out of the closet for 10 years. Not even to hold them. I have been playing since I was 7. I have had to re-learn EVERYTHING. Since then my eyes have changed (glasses and such). In my prime I was playing about 7 tournaments a week. Monday tourney, Wednesday league Thursday tournament, Saturday 2 tournaments running one and Sunday ran and played a tourney also. Not to mention practice. Even with all that I didn't have the time to dedicate to becoming a top listed player. Now don't kid yourself, I am not exactly a novice at this and throughout my years I have owned a many, many cues! Still own a dozen. I play them all. I have played others cues that I didn't own and have shot many nice cues and many more not so nice. I will admit telling someone to there face that there cue plays bad when they spent money on it is not as easy as saying a cue plays bad on this forum. So maybe I don't or haven't played in your little playground here on AZ but, it doesn't mean I don't have knowledge or credentials. I am just not the type to go throwing names out like you obviously like to do. Now don't feel bad. Bragging and wining in pool is more common than not. It goes with the territory. So I get you. As much as my forward approach to how I feel about the cue might have been, how do you say...overly agressive? So be it. The only reason it is was is because that's how disappointed I was in this cue. That's the only volume I need to speak. I did apologize for being rough on the review but like I said it was because of my disappointment. Now the fact that you know and do work for Keith is admirable but has no bearing on fact that in "my opinion" (which holds just as much water as yours) this cue doesn't play well. Pool cues, strokes and other are all subjective. I hear people talk all the time about the terrible stroke Efren has yet the man can shoot the buttons off your shirt. So maybe he stroke is right and everyone else's is wrong? All subjective.
Now being taken care of is really not that big a deal at this point. I already have a bad taste. So I blew some bucks. Not that big a deal. Trust me it's not. Last thing I needed was to hear from a non-objective friend of Keith's telling me how little I know about pool. You haven't even played with this cue so you really have no point of reference. What I can tell you is I was discussing it with others and the general theroy or comment was that I quote "yeah, that's how you can tell a good cue maker by the way they can make a plain Jane Birdseye maple player cue play". This was echoed more than once. Maybe this lower end cue does not play as well as Josey others. I have no other reference. This is the first Josey I have ever hit. So let that be a lesson to others. Don't buy until you hit it. This particular distributor won't let me do that. I will send you the response from this distributor so you can see what your "knowledge" in this business is. It was just what I suspected.
The cue doesn't play well. And if it makes you feel better it doesn't play well FOR ME!
Now being taken care of is really not that big a deal at this point. I already have a bad taste. So I blew some bucks. Not that big a deal. Trust me it's not. Last thing I needed was to hear from a non-objective friend of Keith's telling me how little I know about pool. You haven't even played with this cue so you really have no point of reference. What I can tell you is I was discussing it with others and the general theroy or comment was that I quote "yeah, that's how you can tell a good cue maker by the way they can make a plain Jane Birdseye maple player cue play". This was echoed more than once. Maybe this lower end cue does not play as well as Josey others. I have no other reference. This is the first Josey I have ever hit. So let that be a lesson to others. Don't buy until you hit it. This particular distributor won't let me do that. I will send you the response from this distributor so you can see what your "knowledge" in this business is. It was just what I suspected.
The cue doesn't play well. And if it makes you feel better it doesn't play well FOR ME!
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Yeah that's the way someone at your age (40 years playing pool) talks. How mature.. Your review was less than knowledgeable and you're proving your ignorance of not only the craft but fear of of the game as well by your responses..
