There is nothing beautiful about a piece of straight-grain maple either... The difference between that and CF is just the colour, and black is a neutral colour that goes well with everything.
keilwood for suckers
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They are ugly. The fact that Triple60/Whyte came out with wood-finish CF shaft is proof of this, a LOT of people find them ugly. Personally i don't give a flying fk, its a tool not a art object.
According to this logic, Nike make red shoes because the black shoes are ugly…
Once you move away from wood into synthetic material, you should be able to get any color you like.
To you.. I think they look better then wood and much better then Kiel . Are other people allowed to have different opinions in your world?
Cues are designed with the idea of wooden shafts. I think with carbon fiber becoming very common many cues will be designed to look good with carbon fiber shafts and the apparent mismatch of many cues will go away.
Talking about hit, I very rarely went in a pool hall for twenty years. When I came back to a busy pool hall the sound was ungodly! Almost every hit had the terrible sound of a miscue! I got used to the sound of hard tips but it took awhile.
While I wouldn't choose an ugly cue over a pretty one at the same cost and playability, I am a player not a collector. I have never owned a fancy cue. One reason is I won't own a cue with stone or metal except a metal joint. I like nice cues and JoeyA's POW/MIA cue is maybe the finest I have ever seen but with rare exceptions like Joey's I wouldn't give a few hundred extra for a fancy cue over a plain one. If I went with fancy, it would probably be one of the super fancy butterfly cues. I think butterflies are prettier than points and don't particularly go for inlays.
There is a saying in the car world, if it don't go chrome it! I love brightly polished chrome at a car show but have been known to paint over small
chrome components on my own cars. They were for go, not for show.
I want a four point full splice cue with a wrap almost to the buttcap, even all the way to the buttcap would work. I like a wrap but hate two different feels under my hand so I usually play with a wrapless cue.
Hu
Talking about hit, I very rarely went in a pool hall for twenty years. When I came back to a busy pool hall the sound was ungodly! Almost every hit had the terrible sound of a miscue! I got used to the sound of hard tips but it took awhile.
While I wouldn't choose an ugly cue over a pretty one at the same cost and playability, I am a player not a collector. I have never owned a fancy cue. One reason is I won't own a cue with stone or metal except a metal joint. I like nice cues and JoeyA's POW/MIA cue is maybe the finest I have ever seen but with rare exceptions like Joey's I wouldn't give a few hundred extra for a fancy cue over a plain one. If I went with fancy, it would probably be one of the super fancy butterfly cues. I think butterflies are prettier than points and don't particularly go for inlays.
There is a saying in the car world, if it don't go chrome it! I love brightly polished chrome at a car show but have been known to paint over small
chrome components on my own cars. They were for go, not for show.
I want a four point full splice cue with a wrap almost to the buttcap, even all the way to the buttcap would work. I like a wrap but hate two different feels under my hand so I usually play with a wrapless cue.
Hu
What year is your guitar? I also have a J-45 from about 1965, when did guitar makers start using torrified wood? Definitely a spruce top-
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Y'all know ima Scruggs freak.
I recall them talking about that cue.
They did one for me that had tiny pieces of 18K gold around the joints. Said they'd never work with it (gold) again. That's when they mentioned your Axe. I've personally not seen that piece of Scruggs magic. Sure would like to see some pics!!!
Please!!
Meucci was a firm believer in that concept, going so far as to create that power piston butt, or whatever it was called. Most cuemakers are, if I'm not mistaken. You heard it all the time in the Scruggs shop. How different wood pairings in the butt always changed the hit.
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A 3 inch mid-cue extension solved that problem for me. Now my hand sits comfortably back there where I like it instead of trying to wrap my fingers around the butt cap.
The places you used to farm weren't the type of establishments you would want to take your fancy custom into anyway.
Got my vote for the classic 4 point full splice. Red white and black inlay into a birdseye forearm. Maybe toss in a few of those small diamonds.
Very similar to Bob Freys' #1 cue.
I gotta agree there. I wear a lot of black. Never have to trip on what's going to match it.
I have a collage on my wall. I’ll post a pic when I get back from nationals
sure. i'm a bit of a luddite. even my bk3 irks me a little bit with it's sporty design. but people are allowed to have wrong opinions
The butt has far more effect on feel than most realize. I had one bumper for two cues. I was waiting to have a decent sized order so I was swapping it back and forth. One cue was just a dog so I decided to not bother changing the bumper back and forth. Both cues felt completely different without the bumper. I wanted to put a piece of 6061 T6 aluminum for a sacrificial piece on the bottom of a cue that hit too soft instead of rubber but never got around to the project.
Hu
No opinion is wrong as long as you respect others lol
billiards_watch
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I love all cues.
Some people get a joy of collecting them or who the maker is.
The joy I get from cues is the joy of learning how to play well with different cues. Each cue hits differently so I find it satisfying to master each.
Some people get a joy of collecting them or who the maker is.
The joy I get from cues is the joy of learning how to play well with different cues. Each cue hits differently so I find it satisfying to master each.
Can't wait to see that!!! Thanks.
No opinion is wrong to the person voicing it.
I'm not surprised that this thread has gone 10 pages so far with no sign of ending soon.
For me, I think there is an industry surrounding pool that is very similar to golf and a few more sports where there is a lot of amateur interest. We all want to golf like Tiger or Arnold or shoot pool like SVB or Fedor. The marketers know this and manufacturers respond with a never ending merry-go-round of new products that promise to improve our games to those high levels we dream of.
The truth is we would all be happy to play like Willie did or The Miz and they achieved what they did using basic gear. No CF or Keilwood was needed nor was any 4th version chalks. Look at how Efren tortured the world with his $15 cue. Good marketers make us feel like our games will become like the elite pros if we buy these new gimmicky products.
I try real hard not to be a "sucker" in all aspects of my life. I know there is nothing that will get my game to SVB level or even A level for that matter. I do, however, play with a kielwood shaft from a local cue-maker for one simple reason. I tried one and really liked the performance and feedback it provided and so I ordered one and am very happy with it. Did it improve my game? I don't think so but it did improve my enjoyment while playing and that was justification for me.
For me, I think there is an industry surrounding pool that is very similar to golf and a few more sports where there is a lot of amateur interest. We all want to golf like Tiger or Arnold or shoot pool like SVB or Fedor. The marketers know this and manufacturers respond with a never ending merry-go-round of new products that promise to improve our games to those high levels we dream of.
The truth is we would all be happy to play like Willie did or The Miz and they achieved what they did using basic gear. No CF or Keilwood was needed nor was any 4th version chalks. Look at how Efren tortured the world with his $15 cue. Good marketers make us feel like our games will become like the elite pros if we buy these new gimmicky products.
I try real hard not to be a "sucker" in all aspects of my life. I know there is nothing that will get my game to SVB level or even A level for that matter. I do, however, play with a kielwood shaft from a local cue-maker for one simple reason. I tried one and really liked the performance and feedback it provided and so I ordered one and am very happy with it. Did it improve my game? I don't think so but it did improve my enjoyment while playing and that was justification for me.