I admit, I came into this thread on page 3, and I haven't been on AZB for quite a long time. However, I will chime in on the SW discussion. To the gentlemen who said SW cues play like crap, I'd like to say you're an idiot, but because I don't know you personally, I'll just say you have zero clue to what a great playing cue is. To the gentlemen who called Laurie a liar, you Sir, are sadly mistaken. I've never met a more upstanding business person in my life. I ordered my first SW in Feb 1997, and there was a 4 year wait. I didn't receive my cue until 2005, yes, 8 years later. Stuff happens. I've been a steady customer ever since. As for the gentlemen who said he wouldn't want a SW unless Jerry built it, well, there are Franklin-era SW cues available. What I know to be true and factual is, that the last 2 years of Jerry's life he was only spraying the finish on the cues and Mickey was already taking over as the main cuemaker. That's directly from Laurie. As for sending your own wood to have them build a cue. That's highly unlikely. Reason being...imagine you had a prized piece of (whatever wood) and they accepted it to build your dream cue, and in the process of turning it down, it cracked and became unusable. Hmmm...how would you be feeling? That's probably the #1 reason they don't use customer's wood.