Jerry Rauenzahn. Excellent communication, pleasure to deal with and he delivered my cue in the quoted timeframe to the day. The cue building community lost a good one the day he retired.

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Steve Lomax seems like such a nice guy. He has been so friendly to me whenever I talked to him, over email. If I had the money, I would order a cue from him.

One of my favorite players, Justin Bergman, played with a Lomax, for a very long time, I believe.

Also, was it Alex Pagulayan, who played with a Lomax? I am not sure.

Just sent a PM

mikemosconi said:

Bob Dzuricky of Erie PA. The guys at Proficient and Muellers . Mike Webb.

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Mike Webb seems super nice.

A few uncharacteristic misses by Seo went a long way in that match. Seo easily could have been up 2-1 after three sets.

Chou is playing poorly vs Styer. Chezka is a small favorite over Chou, but a big favorite over Styer.

I’ll second Jerry Rauenzahn……hex was every bit as friendly and courteous as Bob Owen. Between 2013 and 2016, I ordered four custom cues (2 ea) from Bob and Jerry. It was the best cue ordering experience I’ve ever had and Jerry became my close friend as did Bob Owen.

SSP said:

CF shafts do not MAKE more power, what they do is transfer the power of your stroke more efficiently, the difference being a CF shaft will not make a poor stroke more powerful, if you have a decent stroke you will see that your cue doesn't rob as much power from your stroke, draw, follow, stun, will all require less effort, golf clubs used to be made of wood, so did Tennis racquets, both are made of CF now, if they can enjoy the benefits of CF why can't Pool players?

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This has never been proven and even if it was somehow true, most people are playing with soft tips on their carbon shafts, anyway, negating whatever small effect could be discerned from the shaft.

You want a "more efficient" transfer of power, put on a rock hard tip. It will do more for the power of your stroke than any carbon shaft will. That is one of the reasons break cues have really hard tips (the other is wear). You could easily play with tips that are a lot harder than most people use, and still have no problem with miscues etc. I happen to prefer harder tips for playing, but not for reason of stroke efficiency. Hard tips just sound and feel better to me. I get more feedback from my stroke, which is the opposite of what a carbon shaft does, which is mask the impact of the hit. I once played with purple heart shaft for a couple of hours, and the effect is much the same as carbon. It just feels dead. Some people like that feel.
To me it's like wanting to give ones sweetheart a loving little pat on her behind, but someone shot ones arm up with novocaine and taped a huge pillow to ones hand. Not quite as nice.

skip100 said:

Chezka always looks unstoppable, until she doesn't.

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chezka has become more consistent, but she is still very much a form player. and she missed some in the latter part of the match. would still say she's a pretty big favorite in the final