Recent content by Highmiles

Here is another vote for Amazon. I got their better version with aluminum replacing some of the plastic parts. My wife needed to get me a birthday present in that price range, because we limit spending on birthdays. $235, and same as the cheap version in principle. I put my Centennials in there...

I’m sorry, but when I first saw it, I immediately thought of one of the 4 piece “hand carved” cues. It just looks cheap and poor quality. No offense.

Is there more info somewhere? I’m interested.

45 minutes each way. I love the people, so I don’t care.

Sadly I could sing along to all but 4 of those songs, or hum the tunes for the instrumentals. It probably explains why there is no room left in my brain to remember why I just walked into the kitchen for something just now.

Where is number 6?

Your choice on how you think and react. Whenever I get into a tournament situation, my first thought is “that guy is going to be really nervous. Run up as many balls as you can before he settles down. By then he’ll be worried about being down so far.” I started doing that the first time I got to...

I had an early DP cue in ebony with ivory floating points and a uni-lock joint. It played very well, to the point where a friend traded me a Joss West with two shafts for it. We both ended up happy with the trade. P.S. This all happened well before the E-bay cues.

I’ll be 79 in July. Both shoulders have had rotator cuff surgery, eyesight is a major problem since my dominant eye decided to quit working. I do have a home table that I wanted bad enough to build an addition on the house just to guarantee enough room for a 9’ table. I play in a couple of...

Valley one piece house cues, 16oz through 21oz.. Cheap 2 piece cues 16oz through 21oz. My cue stay in their cases.

The same reason collectors hoard vintage Martin guitars, value investment. They are not players either. Modern players wouldn’t invest in a Balabuska, just to put a carbon fiber shaft on it to play.

When i was young I didn’t really play much. In my late 40’s I took it up.again and was thrilled playing with the original Cuetec with a Le Pro tip. It was wrapped in fiberglass, so it was happy to live in my car trunk. I played APA and worked my way up to a 7 and would still use that cue if the...

I have had 4 Schon cues, 1 from the Runde era, 1 from the Clark era, and 2 newer Schons.. I felt very little difference between them and my 2 Pechauers and my early Joss West. I recently got my 5th Schon, an R12 Runde Schon and am using it with a Jacoby low deflection shaft. The balance on it...

After a long time looking, I finally found a Schon R12 in like new condition. It wasn’t cheap. Couple that with a Jacoby low deflection shaft and it’s a sizable investment (for me). Throw in a leather Instroke 2x4 case and Predator break cue and I’m carrying almost $4k into the pool hall. It’s...

At one time I was doing on the road sales. I kept one of the early cue tecs in my car trunk. I never had a problem with it. It lived through some pretty extreme temperatures.