I purchased one of the Longoni Cue Extenders at the Valley Forge (SBE) tournament. It did not have a hole in it to hang by a leather thread so I purchased one of their fabric sleeves that had velcro straps stitched into the fabric to hold onto your pool case.
I have a Jack Justis 2 x4 case and it is rather large. The straps fit around the unit well enough but I had doubts that they would hold up because the velcro was only about 1/4" wide. True to my doubts, the straps broke after just a few hours of use. I went back to the sales person and they gladly replaced the holder for free. Another several hours and the straps were broken again and they refunded my money with promises of reporting the defect to the management.
After I got back home, I started thinking about the extender sitting in my lonely closet and decided I wanted to use it, even though at Buffalo Billiards you may climb up on the table if you cannot reach a shot. I want to improve my ability in using a bridge and cue extender so I started bringing it with me to the pool hall, mounting it to my cue case with some large rubber bands. That didn't work too well either and one day I was visiting Home Depot and was looking at the bungee cords and asked one of the workers if they had "smaller" bungee cords. He directed me to wsome Canopy Tarp Ties made my Joubert. The have a PVC orange plastic ball that the bungee cord loops through the orange ball. They were 12" long which was a bit longer than what I needed.
After obtaining a pair of needle nose pliers, I managed to pull the tied knot end of the bungee cord out of the plastic housing and shortened up the length to what was needed to make a secure but not too tight fit. After a couple of tries I found the perfect length which when used on my cue case, holds the cue extender in place, perfectly. I used two of them, one for the top of the cue extender and one for the bottom. They are very strong and never get out of place and don't do any damage to my case and I have been using them for quite some time and am positive the cue extender won't be falling off of my case going to and fro pool rooms and tournaments.
If Longoni was SMART, they would read this thread and start making these bungee cords or selling them through their retail outlets. As I recall, they weren't very expensive and come 8 to a pack. So far I have only used two of them and given two to a friend.
The Longoni cue extender works extremely well and tightens the neck onto the cue butt until you have it as tight as you want it to be. To remove the cue extender you reverser the process and unscrew the neck of the cue extender until it easily slides off of the butt of your cue. The smooth rounded plastic neck does not marr your cue and is quickly removed or added to your cue. All in all, it is one of the best cue extenders I have used or seen.
Just thought you might like to know about my experience with it.
P.S. (Mr. Longoni: you can send me your next "NEW" pool accessory to me free of charge for this fine advertisement, just PM me for my mailing address).
JoeyA
I have a Jack Justis 2 x4 case and it is rather large. The straps fit around the unit well enough but I had doubts that they would hold up because the velcro was only about 1/4" wide. True to my doubts, the straps broke after just a few hours of use. I went back to the sales person and they gladly replaced the holder for free. Another several hours and the straps were broken again and they refunded my money with promises of reporting the defect to the management.
After I got back home, I started thinking about the extender sitting in my lonely closet and decided I wanted to use it, even though at Buffalo Billiards you may climb up on the table if you cannot reach a shot. I want to improve my ability in using a bridge and cue extender so I started bringing it with me to the pool hall, mounting it to my cue case with some large rubber bands. That didn't work too well either and one day I was visiting Home Depot and was looking at the bungee cords and asked one of the workers if they had "smaller" bungee cords. He directed me to wsome Canopy Tarp Ties made my Joubert. The have a PVC orange plastic ball that the bungee cord loops through the orange ball. They were 12" long which was a bit longer than what I needed.
After obtaining a pair of needle nose pliers, I managed to pull the tied knot end of the bungee cord out of the plastic housing and shortened up the length to what was needed to make a secure but not too tight fit. After a couple of tries I found the perfect length which when used on my cue case, holds the cue extender in place, perfectly. I used two of them, one for the top of the cue extender and one for the bottom. They are very strong and never get out of place and don't do any damage to my case and I have been using them for quite some time and am positive the cue extender won't be falling off of my case going to and fro pool rooms and tournaments.
If Longoni was SMART, they would read this thread and start making these bungee cords or selling them through their retail outlets. As I recall, they weren't very expensive and come 8 to a pack. So far I have only used two of them and given two to a friend.
The Longoni cue extender works extremely well and tightens the neck onto the cue butt until you have it as tight as you want it to be. To remove the cue extender you reverser the process and unscrew the neck of the cue extender until it easily slides off of the butt of your cue. The smooth rounded plastic neck does not marr your cue and is quickly removed or added to your cue. All in all, it is one of the best cue extenders I have used or seen.
Just thought you might like to know about my experience with it.
P.S. (Mr. Longoni: you can send me your next "NEW" pool accessory to me free of charge for this fine advertisement, just PM me for my mailing address).
JoeyA
