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Some people have no problem doing complicated things routinely at a high level easily. Some people can't juggle two tennis balls no matter how hard they try. Somebody else may be able to juggle the tennis balls, a chain saw, and a table chair at the same time. Don't limit yourself.

This is something that was learned long before anyone ever thought of a "low deflection" anything.

My first 2-piece cue was given to me by the best pool player in our town when I was a kid and working in the pool hall. I am sure it was made in Taiwan and it had a label on it saying the shaft was made of Canadian Maple. The gold label on it also identified it as a Willie Mosconi model and it...

The cue ball's "motion" and path of travel is the ONLY thing I am concerned with when I shoot a shot (to include spin for position, speed, etc.). I don't care what the shaft does.

FWIW, I like the balance point to be halfway between my bridge hand and my grip hand as I am leaning over the table for a shot. The cue feels "neutral" to me this way. As you might infer from this, one cue may not fit all. For example, say I like my cue with a 19" balance point and you hand...

The old-school Taiwanese players considered "deflection" to be the cue ball "deflecting" away from the cue tip, not the modern way of thinking where it is used as the tip deflecting away from the cue ball. Squirt. They tended to play close to vertical centerline and they wanted a stiff shaft...

In my experience, people don't know things tend to turn threads into CTE-like arguments.

Those who know, know.

Moral of the story: You play best with the shaft you spend the most time playing with.

Ask the Taiwanese. Bob Meucci made a cue for Kevin Cheng and it had a low deflection shaft. Kevin didn't like it and had Bob build him a shaft with deflection. https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/international-open.501551/page-33#post-6509862

The Taiwan players, up until a few years ago, preferred LARGER than 13mm wooden shafts with deflection. They learned how to use their shafts and used deflection to their advantage when they needed it. I used a 14mm for decades and never had a problem with the deflection.

Every cue I have ever had became my "favorite" cue if I played with it long enough. Why? Because I adapted to it and used it so often that I became familiar with how it played, which made me trust it to do what I had already saw it could do from putting it through the paces. If you can do...

Randy, If you keep looking long enough, you will eventually hit the "Jackpot" again and your cue searching will end.

Casper the Ghost. They are invisible.

Somebody should snatch that up for that price. I have been offered more than what you are asking many times.

Yes. This one.

The plain Balabushka-looking cue is this one. I had it made to look like an original Titlist conversion made by Balabushka. The bottom cue in the photo below is a real Balabushka and the one I copied from. I added the silver rings in the joint for the one I had made...

The bottom cue in the top two photos has a bit of history, too. It is this one.

The top cue was the first custom cue I ever bought back in 1973. It is an A. E. Schmidt made in their factory by Lloyd Bennett. The history of the cue is here. https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/a-e-schmidt-co-cue.273273/

Or put a "S" in front of it and wear a plumber outfit to sucker people.