You getting any finish lifting issues like in the above pics?
My finish isn't lifted off the cue and it isn't cracked anywhere.
And, like I've said in a few posts on here, I may be the ONLY person who got one AFTER seeing it and PLAYING with it FIRST.
I didn't buy mine from the original seller. I got mine from one of the first buyers, who liked it, but then wanted a longer one, so he ordered another, and didn't need two cues. If he didn't like the original one, he would not have ordered a second one.
And, in the same vein, I have played pool for over 50 years and owned dozens of cues, from $5 cues to cues worth several thousand dollars. I have about a dozen of them in my closet. If the cue I got DIDN'T look good or PLAY good (the highest priority), I never would have gotten it in the first place, much less gotten a second one.
I buy pool cues TO PLAY WITH. If they PLAY GOOD, I LIKE THEM. I don't care who made them or if they are pretty or if they cost $5 or $5000. My MAIN CONCERN is how they play.
Some people buy and collect cues because they can't play pool. They want a fancy cue to make up for their lack of playing skills. They worry about inlays and names and frilly stuff. While they are over in the corner on the bench showing off their fancy stuff, I'm at the table making balls.
I've come to the conclusion, from many years of reading the posts on various pool forums, that the majority of the people either don't or can't even play pool. At least not at the level I think of when I say "play pool". Nothing wrong with that, but then they want to jump in and talk about the "hit" of a cue when they have never ran a rack of balls in their life.
The seller offered anybody who bought a cue their money back if they didn't like it.
How many people have returned their cues?