Did going from a low-end cue to high-end improve your game?

I believe it's like most things. Cheap sucks and I mean cheap, not inexpensive. Once you get to a certain level of quality, everything else is just personal preference and artwork.

If you are playing with a cheap warped cue with screw on or slip on tips, then yes, a new expensive cue will help your game. If you are playing with a $150 Schmelke and get a $2k or higher custom, you probably won't play substantially better.

I seriously doubt many people believe buying a custom will make them a better player. I suck equally with all my cues and they range from $300 to $2k. I can still name a long list of customs I would buy if I was worth more. Has nothing to do with playing better.

I once bought a drag car. I did not think it made me Don Garlits.
 
I've owned a bunch of nice cues but the best $$$-maker i had was a pos early C'tec with that coated shaft. Kept it in a 5dollar case in my car year round. All the action in this area has been in bars robbing morons and that cue was the nuts. I could play just as well with it as any hi-dollar custom i've ever owned. Nice cues are fun but NO guarantee of good play.
 
The key to better pool is consistency. So going from a cue that is hanging on the wall to youur own cue. You will improve because of familarity. There are things that a $1000 cue has versus something you buy at the sporting goods store. More solid construction, better balance and tunability, better wood that will not likely warp.

In the short turn will a better quality cue make you better NO, in the long run it will.
 
Zerksies said:
... In the short turn will a better quality cue make you better NO, in the long run it will.
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Well, yes, but some of the members here change cue sticks as often as they change their underwear, so they have no long run.

Nearly all of the playing quality of the cue is in the shaft. Some very high-end cues I've tried have lousy shafts -- for me.

Some cues off the wall play better -- for me -- than most high end cues. Sorry, guys, a joint in a cue is inherently a defect; the best joints play as if no joint is there.
 
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