Meh... I get what you're saying but I wouldn't put too much stock in this poll.
You can't make comparisons until everyone that voted has owned every single cue listed.
Lot's of people have owned Joss cues... if Meucci was listed it'd probably blow everyone out of the water. :grin:
I don't put much stock in the poll. I was just pointing out something obvious. And of course, we really can't say anything until the poll is "completed".
Certainly Meucci has numerous loyal fans.
Bob Meucci no longer works in the Meucci shop AFAIK though, and as far as I understand has not done so for some years. Dan Janes, as far as I know still works in the JOSS shop on a daily basis and still in fact produces one-off custom cues out of that very same shop.
Meucci survives as a legend. Bob Meucci himself is a great cue maker, but has essentially nothing to do with Meucci cues today.
Meucci made their name with basically thin ferrules that cracked then moved to flat laminated shafts then "stalled" and were overtaken by imports like Predator. JOSS made laminated shafts (special order) then moved "full circle" back to "plain" maple traditional shafts that now incorporate a short ferrule. There have been import counterfeits of JOSS actually, you never saw such a thing with a Meucci.
The last "off the shelf" JOSS shaft that I weighed came in at over four ounces. That's "off the shelf" from a "mass produced" cue. Many "custom" cue makers will brag about such a shaft weight.
Pick your poison I guess. But for the money, I think that JOSS is a very safe bet.
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