skip100 said:

It is strange that Savannah gets so much attention when Sofia Mast is the same age and has outperformed her consistently.

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Not really. Savannah was already a capable cueist at age 13 and, in a country that hasn't produced a BCA hall-of-fame caliber female player in a long time, any player showing promising form at such an age is sure to earn our attention.

I had the pleasure of meeting Savannah during the BCA Nationals this past February. She is congenial and has a lot of charisma. She's exactly the kind of player and person that I would want to see succeed.

I've yet to meet Sofia Mast, whose game came into fullest bloom at closer to 15 years old, but I root for both her and Savannah. Both are improving, and I hope that one of them can become a World top 25 player down the road.

The standard in women's pro pool continues to rise, and there are presently 25 players at Fargo 720+. The Top 14 are all Fargo 750+. There is some rarefied air these days at the top of women's pro pool.

Oak is as stated about the same hardness as sugar maple, however the coarse grain does not look good in a cue if you ask me. I have seen oak used several times and I can't think of a single instance oak has lifted the appereance of the cue, the same way say a BEM/ebony, curly maple/PH or any classic combo's seem to complement each other.
Subjective opinion of course, but if you have a lot of oak laying around I would use it for other projects than cues imo..

good drill. Repetition is key to success.

Material looks good as does the rest of the cue.
Did you do the splice?. Looks long and lean,I like it.

I’m heading to an open tournament today 1.5 hrs from ATL. I think it will be reported, the room owner used to a year ago before he outsourced the TD. I think this one is from him as a TD again. It was announced yesterday so prob a smaller field. I feel super strong after doing the Kinnister 6 pointed star the past few days.