Had or shot with tons of cheap cues, but none held a candle to my Sugartree!
Am i nuts - cheap cue is great
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It's the shooter
The player makes the cue. If you're good and when I mean good you are at David G
Level he shoots with a plain Jain sneaky and shoots lights out. I have bought my cues
Before based on the fact that I have earned the ice I bought based on working my butt off this last year and want a cue that represents me. Like I states before I support American Made products hand crafted with a quality to them. This is hard to find in any industry in the US so when I have a chance to buy something that has quality to it then I do. Same reason why I bought a diamond pool table. Not only are they the best they are made here in the US and the quality is second to none.
I have shot with McDermotts, house cues, predators, I could be just as good with any of the cues. But I have a side of me that wants a cue that represents me more and I found that cue in an AE. Dufferins are a hand crafted cue out of good wood now a sneaky may only be 100.00 or so and that's a great cue and shoots great but it's still a handcrafted cue and you can buy high end dufferins so to act like oh this dufferin is a cheap house cue is ludicrous bc it may be inexpensive but it's still quality made
The player makes the cue. If you're good and when I mean good you are at David G
Level he shoots with a plain Jain sneaky and shoots lights out. I have bought my cues
Before based on the fact that I have earned the ice I bought based on working my butt off this last year and want a cue that represents me. Like I states before I support American Made products hand crafted with a quality to them. This is hard to find in any industry in the US so when I have a chance to buy something that has quality to it then I do. Same reason why I bought a diamond pool table. Not only are they the best they are made here in the US and the quality is second to none.
I have shot with McDermotts, house cues, predators, I could be just as good with any of the cues. But I have a side of me that wants a cue that represents me more and I found that cue in an AE. Dufferins are a hand crafted cue out of good wood now a sneaky may only be 100.00 or so and that's a great cue and shoots great but it's still a handcrafted cue and you can buy high end dufferins so to act like oh this dufferin is a cheap house cue is ludicrous bc it may be inexpensive but it's still quality made
that's part of the problem, "cheap" does not mean inferior work product, they should be using the term "inexpensive" which is what this is.
Schmelke and a few other lower cost (not cheap) American made cuemakers are great quality. The cost comes from the more exotic woods (even though Schmelke has plenty of rosewood, coco, bacote, purpleheart and much more. And the customs have more inlays, ivory and other expensive material, and the it is made by hand by one guy, limited production, and they are just collectible. Most things made in great quantities are never collectible until after about 50 years when everyone else lost theirs or just threw them away, and there are only so many left. Think Titlist. Cheap,,,err I mean inexpensive cues, but they are getting fewer and fewer and the price is only gong to keep going up now.
If expensive cues mattered, the MVP's of our league would be the two folks that shoot with Hercek's. Super cool cues, but they are not even in the hunt
I love the looks of custom cues, but not gonna make one ball for ya, otherwise every pro in the world would be shooting with a Bushka
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Thank you gentlemen ALL. I thought I was really out of sinc with something. Although looking way back - to before the bar tables - HINT HINT about my age LOL. - At my primo prime ; off the wall cue sticks at the pool rooms, quickly selected for weight, straightness and always carryed a tip tool did the job just great. Never had to think about it much at all. I'm guessing about age changing the physical aspect slowly and barely noticible to us old phoggies. I do now have some sneaky little problems with gripping that were never ever an issue for all those years. HMMMM. On the very, very bright side - I remain a fierce and well respected competitor - TO THE END !!!! Thanks, AGAIN !!!!!
PS I should have said INEXPENSIVE CUE - really nothing cheap about the Dufferin or many others !
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same story.....
I just learned how to make cues after years of spending thousands on cue-sticks. I once had two cues that came in at $1100 a piece back in 1991 (double that price today) in the same month. One played lights out, and the other just played. I played with a ton of cues from the great southwest to the $55 action cue and along the way learned that expensive high-end cues don't always play lights out.
The cue I have now, is basically the cost of materials and labor. It plays just as good as cues that cost a couple thousand dollars. It's got inlays and points and looks great, but it doesn't look so great that I am afraid to take it somewhere and play with it. This aspect greatly frees your mind from worrying more about dinging up your investment, than about playing your game.
I solidly believe that a cue costing under $500 can play with the best cues that cost well over that. As long as it's made right, with your personal preferences and specs, you can beat the world.
I just learned how to make cues after years of spending thousands on cue-sticks. I once had two cues that came in at $1100 a piece back in 1991 (double that price today) in the same month. One played lights out, and the other just played. I played with a ton of cues from the great southwest to the $55 action cue and along the way learned that expensive high-end cues don't always play lights out.
The cue I have now, is basically the cost of materials and labor. It plays just as good as cues that cost a couple thousand dollars. It's got inlays and points and looks great, but it doesn't look so great that I am afraid to take it somewhere and play with it. This aspect greatly frees your mind from worrying more about dinging up your investment, than about playing your game.
I solidly believe that a cue costing under $500 can play with the best cues that cost well over that. As long as it's made right, with your personal preferences and specs, you can beat the world.
I got lucky and won a 68 player 8 ball tournament with a plain Jane Meucci Sneaky with a Black Dot shaft and a Elk Master tip. The young college kid that knocked me out of the 9 ball tournament was using a house cue. Give a good player a good house cue with a good tip and he will win.
Every piece of wood is different. Twenty + years ago I picked up a Cuetec cue for my break cue, which has currently been tweaked to improve its performance. When I went to Showcase billiards in N. Denver I was able to hit balls with any and every cue I wanted, found ONE that felt right. I tried 75 cues before I chose. If I was U, I'd go to a tournament where there are peddlers of Good used cues, you could easily find your last Affair of the heart. It took me many cues and toward the end a, Zamboti, and Southwest before I settled on my current one, now 25 years old and it's my last playing cue for sure.
One of the top players here in the Stuttgart, Germany area plays with the spark break cue as his player. It only costs 100 bucks and plays lights out. We have bought at least 4 of them and they all have played the same. You can find them at the link below. Just replace the tip with your tip of choice and bingo, perfect player.
http://www.jjcue.com/sparkbk.htm
http://www.jjcue.com/sparkbk.htm
It's not crazy at all, I found certain bar cues significantly better than many players' personal ones.
Fury cues are made 5 min from my shop. I saw them go from a decent work flow to pretty much the same as a small cue maker but super sized. The end result is that it's hard to buy a "bad" cue these days and often you end up with a real keeper.