I'll have to try a Kevin Varney too. I've heard many good things about his cues.
Hopefully Kevin will be back in the shop around the first week of October. You would not be disappointed!
Kevin Varney old growth rosewood from the 1970s, wrapless maple handle.
Mid or late 80s Southwest, Laurie told me it was one of the last made with the great Indian rosewood with maple points, no veneers.
My 1993 Dan Dishaw, figured maple, six ebony points with three veneers each at the time considered "a poor man's Southwest"
I'd have to consider my early/mid '70s Joss custom also, one of the few I sold that I'd like to have back.