I have a Lister cue from a Rounceville blank...

Bill built this for me a couple years back for my personal collection... now I am downsizing.

It has only been test hit...

iusedtoberich said:

That's one I never got a chance to try. I still have my BK-1 which has a slightly fatter shaft than the 314-1 of the day.

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I bought a 314-2 FAT blank when I had Mike Pancerny convert an old Titlist one-piece cue for me.

He did a fantasic job of matching it to the cue.

He makes one of the best piloted compression joints you will ever find.

I would buy another FAT blank if I could find one.












Before photo.

jasonlaus said:

With that, wasn't it Jeanette Lee who told the guy that bought 100% of her that she would dump if they didnt let her buy half(and this isnt before the draw, it's when she was gonna cash) .

What a POS move that is, and yet all the drooling idiots on here worship her

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I think I remember this thread.
If I'm not mistaken, that's where I first went on my rant about the calcutta 10%.
Didn't she leave or something cause she forgot her cue or whatever? Or some other circumstances around her doing whatever controversial thing? Or am I mixing 2 threads up?

I mean why didn't she take half of herself in the first place would be my question.
And at the same time, I don't feel players have ANY obligation to appease someone who bought them.
That's a YOU problem.

One would think that they would respectfully toss her some jelly if she won, but they aren't obligated to if she didn't take half herself in the first place.

But that goes to my point.
Calcuttas introduce complications into a tournament where they didn't exist, before the calcutta entered the picture.

jasonlaus said:

But you all watch gangster movies and worship those scumbags.

Some low level poolplayer is on a podcast and you all lose your minds

Do you people actually think there's millions of people watching this? And who cares if they do, the public loves shit like this.

I guess most of you just hang out in church

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Amen brother

danny left new york before i was around but i did get to know him some in florida. best of the best guys. but not to lend him money as he would seem to forget you did.

grady made bad games as he just wanted to gamble and play. but his hey day was in the early 70's at one pocket.

HawaiianEye said:

IMO, the best wood shaft they ever made was the 314-2 FAT shaft.

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That's one I never got a chance to try. I still have my BK-1 which has a slightly fatter shaft than the 314-1 of the day.

carl.j said:

Piping in here. Does anyone know which series/models were the first Predator cues to use the Uni-Loc joint?

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They switched from 5/16-14 to Uni-Loc about 2001 or 2002. They've been that way since except for some special editions with Radial pins. The Predator Group bought the Uni-Loc company (makers of both the quick release Uni-Loc, and the Radial pin), sometime around there.

sciarco said:

Well done sir.

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Some people collect dolls, cars, guns, coins......why not cues?

muskyed said:

I'd be out $20, nobody would buy me.

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Sadly at $12.50 they mistakenly thought they were getting a deal. They would have had better luck playing the Powerball.

measureman said:

I know this subject has been beat to death but here is my personal take on it.
I have been using solid tips for many years.
Recently I decided to give a layered tip a try.
I had an Everest installed and can not tell the difference from a solid tip.
The layered tip was $40 installed vs a solid tip at $23 installed.
I'm not going to do this again.

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In my experience with layered tips is as they age the glue that holds the layers starts to cause glazing, I find that all leather tips get harder over time as well, I've been using Bulletproof Recoil tips since March of last year, it's a synthetic tip so the consistency from tip to tip is unreal, I'm using the Hard tip, there is another guy who went to the Med tip and said it played like a Med hard, my guess is you will start seeing changes after playing the new tip after a short while.

I doubt anyone has tried both. They are so obscure, and to have access to both systems would be a stretch.

I didn't like the built in drills on mine that much. I preferred to use it to mark a random rack, then practice getting out that rack over and over. I had about 10 racks I'd cycle between.

The PPB is a father-son team. The son is the programmer, the father is the player. They might have had a secretary at one point too. They were always super responsive to me in both email and FB, even when I was being an ass. I also screwed up the Raspberry pi trying to reinstall some software (my fault). They told me to sent it back to them and they fixed it for me in a day and then sent it back. (this was around 2022 or so). I'm quite surprised there are recent reports of poor communication. I'm in that FB group and saw those reports also.

The ICA system I'd bet is also just Robin developing the drills and a programmer he hired, so just as small a company.