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Olymipics Pool , Billiards in 2005 or 6 was rated as the number one non Olympic sport for drug and alcohol abuse ……………………….. I believe it was like 70% of billiard or pool players who used drugs or abused alcohol or both . Bowling ranked #2 and was way below pool by a large margin . Now with 13...

Will not ever sale again list Meucci is first on the never sale a cue made by these companies . Adams Balabushka is second cue on my don't sale list. The one I sold was falling apart faster then it could be glued back together . I was so embarrassed because the Adams Balabushka cue I sold to...

Dealing with haters Try open carry .

Collarless shafts I like the way collarless shafts play . Its way cool to have a cue maker or cue company say hay collarless shafts are prone to crack and there is no warranty we will still make and sell you one but no warranty . That way the customer knows the risk up front, and not back...

Insert I have never seen a brass insert on a cue that has a 3/8x 10 pin ...

Collarless cues It really depends on the who makes the cue , how the cue is designed and the owner . Example is if you bought a collarless laminated LD shaft . My experience Dealing with laminated collarless LD shafts warranty . None of the Laminated LD shaft makers will warranty their line...

Hi tech shafts Some of the worst design or workmanship I have seen on LD shafts was done by Predator …. Seen the tenons, paper thin and not machined centered so half the tenon wasn't even there. There are tons of Laminate LD shafts that were falling apart before the customer ever got the shaft...

Inside my maple shafts What is in my maple shafts is something man cannot reproduce with man made materials... My personal thoughts about allot of the shafts made with man made materials . Most of the time when there is man made materials in a shaft it is because the cue factory cant make...

Hard tips Most of my solid leather hard tip customers prefer triangle . Allot of custom and production cues come with a triangle tip on them ….

Revo You can have the china made fairy dust brother .

Poor workmanship The poorest design or workmanship I have ever seen has been on Laminated LD shafts ……………………….. Seen tenons that looked like the only thing holding them on was the bird dropping ..

Revo I think it would make a swell ash tray with a little work digging out the foam …

Break cue/ Collarless Sorry gents . But I would never buy any wooden collarless pool cue …. and that goes double if the cue is use as a break cue . Very very common for most collarless break cues to crack or split at the joint .. Check the warranty on collarless cues , as far as I know...

I have fixed or assembled a few tables around town and get called about once a year on fixing a table . In this case it was to disassemble a New in looks Brunswick Bar Box because the guy sold his home and taking a new job in New York . Its about 6 pm I went to the customers home I shot him a...

Revo Hi Matt I am glade you like your Revo shaft, The sound and feed back of a Non solid maple shaft does me in . I find my self looking at the shafts to see if they are cracked .

Me I have never played with a revo shaft , but I wouldn't expect the Revo shaft to be any different then any other man made shaft as in sound and feel. Its just not going to sound like solid maple and that's enough to make me not care for the shaft.. Any cue manufacture that doesn't buy...

First I would try Never Dull Used this stuff when I was in the navy, pretty much shined up any piece of brass we had on our ship ...

tip Personally when I am shaping or scuffing the tip I really don't care to screw around . The tip is always glazed and I want to remove some leather to get to the leather that isn't glazed . . I own several lathes and buy my tips by the boxes, making tip life non important. This really isn't...

People I doesn't bother me if someone wears head phones while playing pool. Why would it, they are doing nothing to me .

Best playing cue How would anyone know ? Who in here has played with every cue ever made ? Efren Played with a 12 dollar cue made in Taiwan from my understanding . . I don't think any 12 dollar would rate so high in any professional pool players opinion but Efren sure liked it. Cues have...