Cool. Which one??
Went with the MSP-B.
Mine comes with the WX-700 shaft in 30"
Cool. Which one??
I seemed to remember reading a few threads like this from a while back, many suggested Players, but no mention now, I am guessing mezz is just head and shoulders above players cues, or maybe I am recollecting budget production cues threads...
Anyways congrats on the purchase, hope you love it
I seemed to remember reading a few threads like this from a while back, many suggested Players, but no mention now,
Yes you are right, there were a bunch of threads a while back that amounted to pretty much a pissing contest about how great Schmelke is.
That's why I started my thread with the opener of "time for another......" :grin:
Maybe those threads were different, and the budgets may have been adjusted.
For the record, before I landed on the Mezz, I seriously almost locked into a $95 players. So there's that!
I tried a friends $300 Poison cue and was amazed at how good it felt. I could do anything with it I could with my Predator or Becue.
For the record, my daily player right now is a predator roadline 5 LE with a revo shaft.
Having said ^^^^^^^^^: I've put my revo shaft on a players brand butt and it played every bit as well. I've also put my revo on a Mezz butt, a Josey butt, a TS butt, a black boar and a few other higher end butts and the players brand butt that was $150ish played as well as any of them.
The ONLY reason I play the roadline5 is because my wife bought it for me as an anniversary gift.
Bling is the only difference in the extremely high end cue butt when compared to a $150-$200 players butt.
Modern technology removed the once huge gap between production and custom cues.
Regardless of what cues we use, as long as we use the same one long enough, we eventually adjust to them and to us, well, that particular cue will be the cue we reccomend to everyone unless we have enough experience to know better.
Congrats on the new cue.
Jeff
NEVER heard that about Mezz cues. The higher-end ones are fancier that's about it. Same joints, shafts, cores, tapers. That makes no sense. The Exceeds are super nice but don't play any better.Joss cues starting at 350$ are great cues.
Mezz cues are also very good choice, but I would not recommend entry level models, they don't play so good like a a bit expensive one.
I am confused. How could this be Jeff ? Is your REVO a 5/16x18 Uni-Loc 5/16 x 14 Wavy combo joint ?
I have around 30 production cues from almost all brands: Mezz (4), Schon (2), McDermott (3), Meucci (4), Joss (1), Players (4), Lucasi (2), Pure-X (3-4), Pechauer (1), Predator (1), Viking (3), Cuetec (1)...and have even more shafts that pair up for each.
Hate to repeat the saying, but it really comes down to what you are looking for...value? build quality? hit/feel? etc. It really depends on price range too.
Out of all my cues, the only ones I don't ever see myself being able to sell at this point are:
- Mezz EC7-R1 (w/ EX-Pro)
- Mezz Axi-157 (w/ WX900)
- McDermott G513 (w/ G-Core 12.25mm)
- Joss 44 (w/ standard maple Joss shaft)
- Meucci SWBB2 (w/ 30" Meucci UW)
- Schon Ltd (w/ 30" Jacoby Ultra Pro 11.75mm)