Pros custom cue choice?

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Ak Guy

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We all know most good pros shoot great with about any good shaft and tip and some go with the highest paying sponsor, and I don't blame them.

So who is the preferred cue maker for most pro players. Do we know? A few use Diviney cues, what else? Is there a clear cut favorite?
 
Ak Guy said:
We all know most good pros shoot great with about any good shaft and tip and some go with the highest paying sponsor, and I don't blame them.

So who is the preferred cue maker for most pro players. Do we know? A few use Diviney cues, what else? Is there a clear cut favorite?
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The Asian pros sure do like South Wests.
 
Ak Guy said:
So who is the preferred cue maker for most pro players. Do we know? A few use Diviney cues, what else? Is there a clear cut favorite?
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They don't care.
It's wherever the money will take them.
 
I could be wrong, but I don't believe Southwest sponsors any current tournament players.
 
9Ballr said:
They don't care.
It's wherever the money will take them.
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+1

I can't think of many pros that played with their own cue, other than when Shane played with a Schon and the Asian players using Southwest cues.
 
ctyhntr said:
I could be wrong, but I don't believe Southwest sponsors any current tournament players.
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I don't think so either.
Some of the Taiwanese players play with them with Pred shafts .
Orcullo had one like that too.

I know two decades ago, I saw Tommy Kennedy play with a maple SW.
I know because he asked me for help to unscrew it .:grin:
 
I visited SouthWest cues back in 2001 when I was in Vegas. At the time there was a cue up on the rack in mid build with a tag on it that said E. Strickland.

As for the Asian players, especially the Japanese, you may be mistaking their cues as SouthWest. A LOT of pros here in Japan shoot with Keith Andy cues, and there are a lot of them that resemble a South.
MULLY
 
Again and again

LAlouie said:
Whoever is paying the player to use his cue.
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Every time something like this comes up you here the same thing from
the same people. " whoever pays them the most, not the arrow the
Indian, can run out with a broom". How do you know it's who pays them
the most. Which pros told you that and did they tell you how much they
were paid ?. Hundreds. thousands, millions, a free pony maybe ? Just maybe
somewhere there is a pro that plays with a cue because he likes the way
it plays. Now wouldn't that be something.
jack
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jackpot said:
Every time something like this comes up you here the same thing from
the same people. " whoever pays them the most, not the arrow the
Indian, can run out with a broom". How do you know it's who pays them
the most. Which pros told you that and did they tell you how much they
were paid ?. Hundreds. thousands, millions, a free pony maybe ? Just maybe
somewhere there is a pro that plays with a cue because he likes the way
it plays. Now wouldn't that be something.
jack
Free SJD
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I would be genuinely interested in an actual pro's response here.

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jackpot said:
Every time something like this comes up you here the same thing from
the same people. " whoever pays them the most, not the arrow the
Indian, can run out with a broom". How do you know it's who pays them
the most. Which pros told you that and did they tell you how much they
were paid ?. Hundreds. thousands, millions, a free pony maybe ? Just maybe
somewhere there is a pro that plays with a cue because he likes the way
it plays. Now wouldn't that be something.
jack
Free SJD
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I don't know where you've been but pros are ALWAYS changing their cues and it's not because they found a better one. You start with point #1...pros need the money. Then point #2...pool players like FREE(don't we all). Somewhere in there, a deal is struck. I remember Mika playing with some of the crappiest cues I ever saw, and oh btw he just happen to have a bag full of them that he'd be willing to part with at a price. Those are the kinds of deals that are struck, whether they be play with pay, sponsorship, cue give-aways for resale,,,it's been that way for decades. All players in all games seek sponsorship, in pool especially because of the lack of funds.

What, you think the pros are rolling in cash that they can afford to turn down a deal with cuemakers? You think this kind of thing is not done in other sports? In OTHER BUSINESSES?

The cue a pro like playing with is the one he's playing with NOW, and tomorrow it might be a Meucci.
 
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LAlouie said:
I don't know where you've been but pros are ALWAYS changing their cues and it's not because they found a better one. You start with point #1...pros need the money. Then point #2...pool players like FREE(don't we all). Somewhere in there, a deal is struck. I remember Mika playing with some of the crappiest cues I ever saw, and oh btw he just happen to have a bag full of them that he'd be willing to part with at a price. Those are the kinds of deals that are struck, whether they be play with pay, sponsorship, cue give-aways for resale,,,it's been that way for decades. All players in all games seek sponsorship, in pool especially because of the lack of funds.

What, you think the pros are rolling in cash that they can afford to turn down a deal with cuemakers? You think this kind of thing is not done in other sports? In OTHER BUSINESSES?

The cue a pro like playing with is the one he's playing with NOW, and tomorrow it might be a Meucci.
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Don't forget about their cues getting stolen or lost during a flight .
Somehow when they are given a cue to play with, they end up losing it .
Specially when they are in Las Vegas or Reno.
 
LAlouie said:
I don't know where you've been but pros are ALWAYS changing their cues and it's not because they found a better one. You start with point #1...pros need the money. Then point #2...pool players like FREE(don't we all). Somewhere in there, a deal is struck. I remember Mika playing with some of the crappiest cues I ever saw, and oh btw he just happen to have a bag full of them that he'd be willing to part with at a price. Those are the kinds of deals that are struck, whether they be play with pay, sponsorship, cue give-aways for resale,,,it's been that way for decades. All players in all games seek sponsorship, in pool especially because of the lack of funds.

What, you think the pros are rolling in cash that they can afford to turn down a deal with cuemakers? You think this kind of thing is not done in other sports? In OTHER BUSINESSES?

The cue a pro like playing with is the one he's playing with NOW, and tomorrow it might be a Meucci.
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If this is the case you would think that the CUSTOM cue maker would
be getting something out of the deal. Sense the are giving away a bag
full of cues and untold fortunes. The pros should be wearing a neon
sign advertising the product. But its always a guessing game which
cue they using. Oh by the way Meucci is not a custom cue.
jack
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Rich CUSTOM cue makers

I guess CUSTOM repeat CUSTOM cue makers are making so much money
that they can afford to pay pros and give then sacks full of cues.
What CUSTOM cue was this that Mika was using. These CUSTOM cue
makers have be rich or dumb or something to give away their cues
money and what not to a pro that will not play with the cue for more than a day or two. Just wondering which CUSTOM cue makers these are, because
if they're that dumb I'm going to call one up and try to convince them that
I'm a pro and get some of that free stuff, and cash. Please supply their names
and phone numbers.
jack
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I believe that when your pool playing skills are are advanced as the pro players, the cue specs and cue-maker are a lot less important than it seems to be with the rest of the pool playing world.

As long as the cue is the right weight, balance and tip, I betcha the pros would be happy with playing any cue if they were paid to use it.........I imagine that paid endorsements cover a lot of ailments in a pool cue's construction.
 
I always was under the impression that the pros might use 'production' (I'm using " because many get a custom fitting of a production model) cues because if something were to go wrong with a shaft or ferrule etc. you have a much greater chance of getting exactly the same thing from a production company on a moments notice. I am sure that Royce at OB can send out a replacement shaft on a moments notice to a pro that needs one and it will play 99% like the one he just had. Custom makers, by their own admission, take years to turn down shafts and might not have the ability to just crank out a shaft for a guy mid tournament if the unforeseen happens.
This may also explain why so many pros use custom or non production butts with aftermarket shafts - not necessarily for the LD properties, but for the consistency of the product.
 
Diveney and Durbin both sponsor pros, those are two off the top of my head...Didn't Scott Frost play with a Tasc for a while (don't think he was sponsored)? I think a consensus that several pros have given me is that they like LD shafts. So I guess thats one thing.
 
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