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I know I am probably going to get laughed at, but this Excalibur cue looks to be a really nice looking, good quality cue.
Am I being foolish for thinking that?
The cue really reminds me of a nice looking Lucasi, for example, made with some very nice looking Birds Eye Maple.
Just really surprised that a cue this nice looking would be an Excalibur.
I always thought of Excalibur cues to be really cheap quality cues, but the inlays in this cue appear to be real, and you usually do not see highly figured Birds Eye Maple in a really cheap name brand cue.
Thanks for any thoughts about the cue, and if it were not for the brand name, would you think it looks like a good quality cue?
I think so.
I would not call that "highly figured", buy it if you like it though
Some Excalibur cues are decals, some are inlays. Not terrible cues, fine to go hit balls around. I'll recommend a new tip and ferrule to help the playability.
First off, for a cue to have sharp point inlays there is either a tooling option to make the pockets accept that sharp point. Or time to hand clean up the pocket to accept that sharp point inlay. This is obviously not a tooling adjusted one, one would see the epoxy filled void left. And the price should indicate the lack of hand clean up for the inlays. So those are decals, no other choice left.
It looks like an ok cue. To those with knowledge on how cues are made, it’s nothing different than a plain cue. How it plays, who knows. Could be awesome, could be junk.
Better shafts tend to have tighter grain.
OTOH, Atlas has shipped me wood like that
If the grain is straight or very nearly so from one end of the shaft to the other, it might not matter.
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That is interesting. So, what about the cue in these pics ? Can see that the points are CNC, but the inlays are sharp . I do not see an epoxy filled void in the sharp inlays, so how do you think they were done?
I do not really understand most of the stuff you said though. Sometimes it seems hard to tell real inlays from fake overlays. When I see nicely figured BEM , then I automatically think the cue is nice quality.
Would that cue with reject shaft make you happy ?
A local maker can chop up a house cue and pair it with a decent shaft and it will hit a million times better than that.
Then again, we had this Justin guy who was not happy with any cue he got .
I could tell you exactly what the difference is, but look at them yourself. What is the key difference between the two in how their inlays are constructed.
I had a Scruggs sneaky for a short time, and that cue hit horrible, in my opinion. The guy who purchased it from me loved it though.
I have been very happy with many cues I have had over the years. Just was not able to hang on to them, for various reasons.
best to buy a cue you can hit a few with. there are so many pool rooms with cues for sale. most will let you hit a couple balls with a cue if you say you will buy it if it hits good.
no chalking it though.
buying a cue by looks is like marrying a girl off the internet untried.