Thank you all for the kind comments! The Bear is a super player and what I have been going to lately. Trying to get a feel for the Bender/Bear, recently purchased that from Martin at Supercues.com. The Dayton is my buddies, killer cue as well. The Coker is awesome, I'm not a huge fan of fancy/newer style cues, like the traditional 4 point and plain janes myself but this one is very classy and the woods are superb. It was a shame that Tom's shop was broken into, I've known Tom and Michi now for 10+ years, some of the nicest folks to deal with in the buseness. I've taken my family out to their shop a number of times, Michi is always nice enough to take the kids and show them how the cnc works and give them inlay cut outs, I think my youngest daughter has some of them in her desk.