here is a review of various chalks at pooldawgs

CanadianGuy said:

the Judd Trump escape kick into pocket jaws from Wilsons drop dead perfect safety was a beauty

that had to just suck all life out of Wilson

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my friend sent me a clip of that as he was impressed with the escape and I think I was just as impressed with how Wilson laid the snooker as I was Trumps escape. As you said he played it drop dead perfect, he had a bout a balls width space to get behind the colour and judged both the weight and line of the shot to perfection.

Prices on Dale Perry cues that have been sold on eBay:

CocoboloCowboy said:

My best Pool playing friend and I were debating weather Points, Inlays, Veneers, ringwork, and other embellishments effect the hit of a Cue.

He says his next custom Cue will be a plane jane with no nothing to effect hit of a cue.

I think he is gone off the deep end as his best hitting cue has 8 points in the Forearm, and another 8 points in the Butt, and it is his best playing cue.

I do not think embellishments effect a cue hit, but it does make em pretty.

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One of the great masters of cue building fiercely belived this. Martin would not do points or fancy ringwork because he felt it changed the hit and feedback of the cue so significantly.

Honestly this all comes down to what you need your cue butt to do. Is it only delivering stroke or do you also require it to deliver consistent feedback to your hand?

My experience has been the more shit you do to the forearm with inlays and points and multiple materials the less of that feedback that makes it to your hand. Makers try to get around this by having a solid core of maple running from the joint to the sleeve but that's a hack and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

I'm having a BEM merry widow built for me right now with old growth maple that's was sitting in a makers wood crib for over 30 years that they got from a different maker when they retired, who probably had that piece of wood since the 70's. No points, no fancy rings, just a natural born killer...



I am getting the steel joint and the two silver dollar rings in the sleeve engraved by a master engraver to add a bit of flair...

Pool_fanatic said:

. Just get a long stick and put a leather tip on it and you should be god

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Or get a stick that's about a hundred years old with a butt 1.39 inches thick (35mm) --- a Viking skinny is 1.2" (30.6mm)

enimrac said:

I took a few years from playing off, but coming back into the scene i'm pretty surprised by the price of these cues now. I had an ebay era DP cue that was given to me sometime around 2013 when they were around $150. It played well and had a lot of work for the price. Its crazy to me now seeing them posted for $600-700.

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Yeah people are posting them up on eBay at those prices but there not selling.

I've bought two 1/1 cues in the past year and did not pay more than $150 for either. I also purchased one of his pre-retirement cues that supposedly cost $1900 new for $275.

The single greatest driver of price bumps on the cues is people hitting Buy Now without doing any research thinking there getting a great cue and then actually doing their homework afterwards. Talked to one seller on eBay that bought a 1/1 locally for $300 not knowing the history thought he was going to flip it for 1k and sold it to me for after having it listed for a year for $150.

Please don't confuse ask with get....

I took a few years from playing off, but coming back into the scene i'm pretty surprised by the price of these cues now. I had an ebay era DP cue that was given to me sometime around 2013 when they were around $150. It played well and had a lot of work for the price. Its crazy to me now seeing them posted for $600-700.