SA96 said:

We need Fedor to beat Capito.

That will stop Thorsten from getting on Team USA.

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You need someone who is not an actual us citizen to stop someonewho is, from getting on the team?

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mikemosconi said:

Jim did some cue work for me back in 2004. I believe that he was a one man shop. He was not a very prolific cue maker. His work was known for solid construction and careful choices of woods and materials resulting in very solid hitting cues.
Jim was not a “ big name” cue maker as in a Scruggs or Black as examples. Few of his cues come out in the market today and it is the 60-80 crowd that may recognize the name and reputation.
Scarcity adds some value to plain design cues from Jim- I would say that demand at a given time from knowledgeable cue seekers will best determine $ offers on any specific Buss cue that comes to market- $500 to $1500 or so.

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Jim worked with his brother, I visited his shop several times.

Lou Figueroa

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jasonlaus said:

under no circumstances should you ever sell that cue. I'M NOT JOKING

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Oh, so you’ve done that before too huh?

garczar said:

What did the SupremeCourt justice say about pornography? "I can't describe it but i know it when i see it" I can't define a cue's hit but i know it when i feel it. Everyone has their own aspects of a cue's hit/feel that they feel is important. PJ has played long enough to know that there is no definite answer to this.

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That was my first thought.

There are maybe 4 or 5 cues I’ve ever hit a few balls with where I thought, “I have to have this cue.” I own one of them. They all have that same crisp hit and the weight of the cue feels evenly distributed across its length (best description I can provide). I would love to have the opportunity to measure the cues I couldn’t acquire to see if there are common characteristics. I own other cues that measure similarly to my favorite that are very good, but not in the same class.

I’m not so sure I could order a cue from a cuemaker and anticipate receiving that 6th cue with that magic hit. Maybe from a couple of cuemakers from whom I couldn’t get an agreement to build me a cue.

I own a cue that based on build and some of its measurements, I should not like. Weight, balance point, joint type, and ferrule material are all different from the cues I’ve gravitated toward. One day, I measured the taper of that cue’s shaft and it was identical to my favorite cue. It’s a non-whippy Meucci sneaky Pete. It doesn’t make my Top 5, but I can play pool all day with it and not want to change.

Pulling for Ruiz to achieve a dark horse victory over Filler as he did in the DCC in 2022. He’s due again.

SA96 said:

We need Fedor to beat Capito.

That will stop Thorsten from getting on Team USA.

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fedor can't beat capito, he's overrated remember?

SA96 said:

We need Fedor to beat Capito.

That will stop Thorsten from getting on Team USA.

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You need someone who is not an actual us citizen to stop someone who is, from getting on the team?

Patrick Johnson said:

On the other hand, smaller squirt estimates mean smaller errors.

pj
chgo

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It has long been apparent that I am in the minority. But I’ve never player with an LD or CF shaft that made be think I need to change and play with them instead of my traditional maple shafts. I even bought a 314-2 shaft when it was new so I could spend more time with it. But I’ve never felt improvements in hit, predictability, or reproducibility with these “newer” shaft technologies (not so new any longer). I play OK with my 314-2. It doesn’t take me long to adjust to its feel.

I have days when I can’t miss anything and days when I’m embarrassed even when playing alone. IMO, the problem is not from my cues.

My initial thoughts were Viking, Karl Meyer, could be anyone of many others as well including imports.

qolbrand said:

does it feel stiff when you hit the ball or does it feel mushy?

the biggest difference i can personally attest to this is using a cue with an ob1+ shaft and then using the same cue with the same shaft with a tomahawk ferrule instead of wood.

all the same equipment except the ferrule material and the “hit” was night and day.

i think even a non-pool player would have been able to feel the difference.

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Along these lines- tip hardness has very much to do with the feel of a cue hitting a cue ball - from my experience. If I change out a very hard cue tip to a soft cue tip - the difference in the “hit” of that cue is most often night and day. I cannot play with tip hardness in the hard to very hard category and I prefer medium soft as a tip hardness rating.

Jim did some cue work for me back in 2004. I believe that he was a one man shop. He was not a very prolific cue maker. His work was known for solid construction and careful choices of woods and materials resulting in very solid hitting cues.
Jim was not a “ big name” cue maker as in a Scruggs or Black as examples. Few of his cues come out in the market today and it is the 60-80 crowd that may recognize the name and reputation.
Scarcity adds some value to plain design cues from Jim- I would say that demand at a given time from knowledgeable cue seekers will best determine $ offers on any specific Buss cue that comes to market- $500 to $1500 or so.