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Best All-Around Production Cue for ~$1000 (Value, Playability, Durability, Support)?

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HawaiianEye said:
I have had one since they first came out and I have three shafts for it, including the original white ones. I have two Becue cases, the extension, and the weight system.

They play very good and solid.

I think a carbon butt paired with a carbon shaft feels better and plays better than a carbon shaft on a wood butt.
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I was just getting back into pool and saw your reviews of Becue, it's one of the reasons I bought one, bought the new Prime II shaft and couldn't be happier with how it plays, put a Bulletproof Recoil hard tip, holds chalk like no tip I have ever used, I appreciate your reviews, Becue is not as well known as they should be in my opinion, but they don't pay Pro's to play with their cues.
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Is a Jump Shot an "Obvious Shot"?

jsp
fastone371 said:
To play the devils advocate if the CB contacting an adjacent rail were to be considered a kick shot that means the object ball touching that same rail on the way to the pocket would have to be considered a bank shot.
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Exactly. There is ambiguity in the what constitutes all those terms ("kick", "bank", "carom", "kiss", etc.), unless there is another section in the rules that precisely nails down those definitions. That's why the criteria I proposed eliminates all mention of such ambiguous terms.
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Shaft length

fastone371
skor said:
I doubt that an extra inch will take more time to make, just more material and this certainly should be paid for.
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I'm sure that all of their tooling, machines, etc are set up to make 29" shafts, making a custom length whether it be shorter or longer is where the extra cost is. At last count my local cue guy had 27 lathes I believe, all set up to perform a different task at building cues.
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Pool Inventions of the Future

nataddrho
A device that shows both exact tip position on cue ball and exact ball fraction hit on object ball. I made the former already but the combo of both will really open amateurs’ eyes to the mistakes they are making and not realizing.

Also an AirTag for cues, goes inside butt of expensive cues. Investment protection.

Free high school education for all pool players, because most of them need to go again.
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Pool Inventions of the Future

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sjm said:
Automatic racking of the balls. Once upon a time, the pins had to be set manually on a bowling lane. They automated it, and the same should be done for the racking of balls at the pool table.
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I was in a pool hall decades ago where they had a rack boy. When you needed the balls racked you tapped your cue, mostly house cues back then, on the floor and the rack boy ran over and racked them. I didn’t like it, had to wait sometimes but if you tried to rack your own they were offended
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Pool Inventions of the Future

cueball2010
straightline said:
The cloth might even be virtually non porous but the stuff is impossible to stretch so it should be preformed and tensioned by the rails like a drumhead. I've often wondered why current cloth isn't tensioned with long clamps instead of staples.
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Like using nails instead of screws.

You know, carbon cloth might be a bit pricy. They keep trying to get cloth slicker and slicker... Why not just make cloth from recycled plastics? More consistency and less prone to humidity.
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Is a Jump Shot an "Obvious Shot"?

fastone371
jsp said:
There can be confusion as to what exactly constitutes a "kick shot". If the OB is close to the rail (but not contacting it) and the CB contacts the adjacent rail (of the intended pocket) first before contacting the OB, is that a kick shot? Some might argue yes, since technically a rail was contacted before the OB. Therefore, I feel more precise language is warranted.

I started a thread a decade or so back regarding this subject. The following is criteria of what constitutes an "obvious shot" that I ended up coming up with that attempts to eliminate all ambiguity...

1) The first thing the cue ball contacts is the pocketed ball or the rail adjacent to the pocket in which the ball is pocketed.
2) The pocketed ball doesn't contact another object ball.
3) The pocketed ball doesn't contact a rail other than the two adjacent rails of the pocket in which it is pocketed.

So given the above, a jump shot, provided it still meets all the above criteria, would be considered an obvious shot.
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To play the devils advocate if the CB contacting an adjacent rail were to be considered a kick shot that means the object ball touching that same rail on the way to the pocket would have to be considered a bank shot.
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US Open 08/18-23

pt109
sjm said:
Agreed. While we all understand how dominant he can be when he is on, it is tough to know what to expect of Josh.

Many of the elite have played the Rally in the Valley, the Florida Open and the Battle of the Bull as preps, so they have been using the Matchroom break regularly for all of August, and this might give them a slight edge, as Josh has not used the Matchroom break since July.

We all understand that Josh, a confirmed workaholic, will have done everything possible to prepare for the US Open 9ball, and that he might win it but, like you, I see him as a bit of a wild card this week.
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To me, Joshua Filler is like Buddy Hall was for twenty years….tough to bet against.
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