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I’ve worked on my share of cheap cues, and yeah, sometimes things go wrong. I’d much rather eat ramen noodles than work on ramin wood. But, sorry to say, I completely disagree with the "I'm not working on cheap cues" attitude. The attitude, mind you. Ponder this: A customer comes in and wants...

American pool cue makers use different grades of maple for different purposes. Maple is preferred in our craft because it is strong and stable, yet inexpensive. Maple results in consistently hitting cues that are somewhere around the industry norm 19 ounces in weight. - Straight-grained maple...

Oh, I love the stuff. Don't get me wrong, I'm not raising a moral objection to using Brazilian Rosewood or Ivory. If I can get it legally, I'll use it. I'm just posing a philosophical point about we humans wanting what we can't have. Didn't mean to get too deep. :) I wonder what bald eagle...

According to Wikipedia, rosewood is a large genus (group) of trees that contains somewhere between 100 and 600 different species. Brazilian rosewood is just one type of rosewood. Other types of rosewood well known to cuemakers are African Blackwood, Cocobolo, Kingwood, and Tulipwood. So, the...

Odega. They break and jump just as well and G10 or phenolic, but are BCA legal, as mentioned. If it's control you want, then you gotta go softer. You can't have both power and control.

Well, if he sells pool cues at a flea market, he's definitely the guy to ask!