I think that this is one of the best articles I’ve read in a year or two.

skip100 said:

Where do pros usually stay when they are in Vegas? If they are paying for hotels then 3 weeks of that adds up.

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Well, the Sahara was saying I could stay on for $59/night including the $56 resort fee, so it might not be so bad after the tournament people are gone.

Are any readers gun buffs? How many of you own a gun, handgun or rifle? Is it a contemporary gun or a collectible?
If contemporaneous, is it a standard model or did you accessorize it., sights or light? How many holsters do you have?
Did you buy practice ammo and self-defense ammunition? How often do you practice at the range weekly, mthly, yrly?

Okay, all basic questions that most gun owners could answer based on their experience, not what what they’d think if they did not own a gun. So their answers reflect more real world experience rather than what they might imagine it as.

Back to custom cues and why I am making a gun analogy. How many gun owners, or anyone that has ever shot a gun,
had the opportunity to shoot a custom built gun. handgun or rifle? Was it a custom built version of a gun similar to what
you own or even shot? Bottomline……..was there a difference, is there a difference, with a custom made gun versus a standard model by the same manufacturer? Was it significant? Was the price difference justifiable? Would you want one?

I have, more than once, and there is a big difference in the design and performance that justifies the higher price if you can afford it. To deny or debate that is just being obstinate minded and I’d have a couple if CA did not have such stringent certification requirements for guns. Well, when you find the right cue maker, custom built cues are the very same way.

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This one is going to go right over the heads of many a poster. Hell I'm getting long in the tooth and I'm barely old enough to get it.

We have same system in Finland. or almost same..

Jaden said:

Troll post of the week nominee...lol. I'll bite. I can play fine with either. I had someone comment just the other day that based on my video I posted it looks like I would've run out with a broom stick. That doesn't mean the advantage that technology provides isn't real. Consistency can be measured in fractions of a percent and confidence in your equipment can be the difference between winning and going two and out.

When I was in Viriginia years ago and went to meet up with and play with, crap I can't think of his handle now. He was dating Pink Lady and she lived with him at the time. An older friend of his had a really nice traditional cue at the time and I was explaining BHE to them. The older gentleman stated that he just couldn't adjust to low deflection and I explained the pivot point and he let me shoot with his cue. I shot a few shots to find the pivot point and then ran out a rack and they were both surprised that I could pick up a cueand adjust to it and use it with lots of side spin that quickly.

Knowledge and experience are the ultimate arbiter of results I guess is what I'm getting at, but how you get there and how confident you are with what you use shouldn't be discounted either.

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I don't know much about pivot point and I don't know what BHE is, but I am unconvinced that we can say that a stick with a peice of leather glued on the end of it can contain much technology.

I even played with a "forward weighted" carbon fiber cue at one of the vendor booths. Made balls per the usual with that too.

I'm just saying that there's not much there there concerning cues. Again, final answer.