just throwing my opinion out there - for 200 bones you can get a pretty plain but nice quality cue made in the USA, or you can get a Lucasi (or Poison, or Fury, or McD's Star line, or Nick Varner, or ..... etc. etc. etc.) that's a bit more dressed up but imported. Not sure there's a lot of room for yet another 200 price point cue, but I wish the best of luck to ya. Heck, it seems that I see more and more Dale Perry cues nowadays since he went to eBay....so, maybe you can make your own way in that price range the way he did.