This question really doesn't apply to a specific pool cue maker or design and should be reworded as the following, which could not be more obviously queried:
Do you like playing with a specific design approach cue model or are you flexible / adaptable to playing with any cue?
Given that cue makers do not vary their design approaches that much (yes, they can vary small things like joint pins and joint diameters, butt and shaft diameters, and various minimal functional / visual materials like ferrule, joint and inlays if capable), but usually they are quite set in their ways when it comes to:
- Their butt and overall weighting approach (forward vs middle vs butt heavy)
- What type of butts they manufacture (merry widow only vs points and the approaches to put them together vs full splice), wood vs other materials (CF, etc)
- No wrap only vs linen wraps possible vs all wrap options (leather and others)
- maple shafts vs LD (CF, kielwood, lamited, etc)
I am very happy that all 5 of my current cues came with factory hard rock maple shafts as it is all that I play with, I also prefer 6 high / low warm wood SW style cues with quite a forward weighting (usually identified by people saying "your cue feels noticeably lighter than what it weighs out in its specs"), black joints and butt caps with nice ringwork around them, black football leather wraps plus 12.5mm long pro taper original maple shafts with a soft G2 tip. One of my 5 is a no wrap cocobolo sneaky.
