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And? Who cares if they all have the same machines. Ford has more technologically advanced machines and robots than Ferrari, but no one thinks Ford makes a better sports car. Or that they even can produce a better paint job. Your point seems to be that a cue is merely an accessory; that...

It's possible. I said at the top that my knowledge of exactly what goes into cue-making and how cues are expected to perform is not great. But as I also said, my point is that among the products I do have some knowledge of, craftsmen still rule over machines. And I really don't see why that...

You couldn't pay me to own a telescoping cue.

Oh I know any game can be played on any table. What I was trying to get at is that certain games were originally played on a certain size table. That's why I used football and soccer as examples. You can play soccer on a football field; I did my entire soccer career. I saw a true soccer...

A relatively new product in fishing is fluorocarbon fishing line. And there are literally dozens if not hundreds of companies that sell fluorocarbon line for various applications touting the technology they used to design and manufacture their lines. However, there are only three factories...

I freely admit that my knowledge of custom cue makers, as in who are the top 5 or 6 makers and why their cues are so respected, is not what it used to be. Or even which are the top 5-6 production cue manufacturers. However, i know something about custom guns and custom fly rod makers, as well...

Anyone have a pic of a cue made with koa? Really like that wood, always wondered what it would look like in a cue.

The quote in the Op should read "it plays well FOR ME." What I like and what someone else likes are going to be different. Sometimes very different. It's the same deal with most things. Golf clubs, fly rods, sports cars, whatever. Some of us are tall, others short, some more muscular...

If you have to have the shaft, I guess get it. Personally, I've never played a Cuetec that I liked.

Well thanks. And you're welcome. Those Higgins rifles are funny little guns aren't they? I swear some of the parts I found in there were hand hammer forged. I felt like I was peering into 1943 or something.

Don't know exactly what you guys are talking about, and don't want to know really. But this post reminded of something that happened to me just a few years ago. About 4-5 years ago a friend asked me if I could check out this .22 rifle she'd been left by her recently deceased grandfather. She...

No they are not all plastic sleeved forearms. Just the PP ones. And I don't think warpage is an issue. Don't know how you'd get sufficient air exchange to create that problem. Anyway, the 4 Meuccis I have had that have PP tech are as straight as the day I got them. But I'm weird like that...

Several years ago Meucci had a Demo cue in their line up, sold for about $275 i think. It looked exactly like this cue without the rings: https://www.budgetcues.com/meucci-pool-cue-raze-1-black.htm Supposedly had PP technology and came with a BlackDot shaft. For the most part I find that all...

Oh good lord . . .

I could be wrong, but I thought table size was about the game played. 9 footers were more for 9-ball, 8 footers for 8-ball, snooker is played on a 12 or 10 footer. Kind of like how football is played on a 100 yards long x 53 yards wide field, and soccer is played on a field 120 yards long x 75...

^^^^ This. I've been working with one of my league partners about these concepts for a while now. not right now, of course, but before this whole lock-down thing happened. Especially the muscle tension thing. Guy normally holds the cue like he fell of a cliff and grabbed a branch or...

Ah, now I see it. Had to scroll through twice though. You should really move that to the top and put it in bold face.

I've shot one actually. A buddy of mine got one several years ago and let me pot a few balls with it before our match. Very sweet looking and playing cue. In fact, I think that was about the time that I decided to leave the HP-3 with the BD shaft at home for a season and just play with my DH...

Thanks, but I'm out of my experimental phase at this point. I shoot Meuccis now, have for nearly 30 years. My favorite shooter is an old Meucci DH-2 with a solid maple shaft, then a somewhat newer HP-3 w/BD, and most recently a Meucci ANW-3. Between these cues I shot just about everything...

Imust be getting better at shot selection. I would've played the rack essentially exactly the same as you played it, except the 8 ball. I would've shot the 8 with just top center, to try and get the cue to drift a bit closer to parallel with the side rail, giving me more room from the 9...