you're not alone. i like the basic style that cue's got with four points and a butt sleeve with windows/boxes, i like linen wrap. and malachite is for sure better than MOP, but a little gaudy. the stained wood i'm not a big fan of. even so it looks better than any predator cue for the last 10...
they said yesterday that johnny sleeps in the commbox because he didn't book a hotel. don't know if it's true?
also, easy-e, that tank top with the text "stepdaddy material" got me laughing
i assume this is the brain child of a gen x:er that thinks because it's techy and flashy it's gonna be the new thing..
if anything younger people now want something genuine and real.
i've heard about pool in school curriculum in taiwan, philippines, poland, etc. but i find these stories apocryphal. i guess i too would like it to be true, pool being treated like a sport worthy of teaching in school, i just doubt it's true
they got a little carried away in the late 80's and 90's, i don't like the too busy ones. but generally nice designs for a production cue. i would like to see the early ones
i like all of that actually. i agree on the metal railroad rings on the schons, i just picked an example of the overall style. SW style rings would be my favorite for rings, but simpler wood dashed can be nice too
sure, the big bertha guy. i'm sure he made nice designs for adam, or however that coop worked, but these here look mental to me:
butterfly veneers, floating bullets or whatever it's called, stacked MOP, stacked nylon (?) in different colors, brass.
viking and mcdermott in the same era had...
are they all sample totempoles or did they actually look like that?
other than huebler and joss, were there any production cues in the 1970's that weren't hideous?