Anyone heard of KC Custom Cues ??
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xunkn0vvnx said:
bought some on eBay a long time back,,,,still have my demonstrator cue,,, breaks good, but has too stiff a hit for me,,,shaft has an almost straight taper
A friend of mine who was looking for a beginner's cue bought one off ebay once. Actually he didn't go straight through Ebay, he got the contact off ebay and bought the cue off the guy selling them through email. He received the cue in a tube. There was absolutely no padding inside the tube when he recieved it. It was just the tube with the cue inside, absolutely no foam or anything to shield the cue from damage during shipping. The cue arrived with a big dent in the shaft, causing by an impact during shipping.
They claim it to be a 'custom' cue, but the quality of it is quite suspect. The linen wrap has the flaky feel of a low quality linen. I don't think the points are spliced like they appear to be in the pictures. It was quite obvious from my friend's cue that the points are decals. Some of the points on his cue were severely crooked and the veneers are 'overlapping' each other, sign of a bad decal work. I think my friend probably got a bad 2nd quality cue because he bought it without going through ebay. I seriously doubt any of their cues are custom. From the looks of it, they appear to be mass produced cue, just like the ones you can buy for 50 bucks.
I can't rememer how it hit like, this was 3 or 4 years ago. I think my friend bought a KC 2.
They claim it to be a 'custom' cue, but the quality of it is quite suspect. The linen wrap has the flaky feel of a low quality linen. I don't think the points are spliced like they appear to be in the pictures. It was quite obvious from my friend's cue that the points are decals. Some of the points on his cue were severely crooked and the veneers are 'overlapping' each other, sign of a bad decal work. I think my friend probably got a bad 2nd quality cue because he bought it without going through ebay. I seriously doubt any of their cues are custom. From the looks of it, they appear to be mass produced cue, just like the ones you can buy for 50 bucks.
I can't rememer how it hit like, this was 3 or 4 years ago. I think my friend bought a KC 2.
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on eBay right now, you can buy three KC-1 cues for $199,,,as opposed to your site; you only get one for $299,,,,,,anybody see a problem ?,,,incidently, I bought mine about two years ago, 3 for $79,,,,,guess inflation is rampant,,,LOL
lukeinva
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Mine hits great! Well after I changed the ferrule, tip and tapered the shaft. But I got it for $100 from a guy who said he knew the cue maker that made them! What pisses me off is I play with this guy everyday so I thought I could trust him. Come to find out from CCB they are imports from the phillapines!! I told the guy I bought it from and he just schrugged me off. The only reason I bought it is cause I wanted a cheap cue just to mess around with cause I broke the shaft of my other cue when playing and havent had time to make a new one! But oh well you live and learn!! Plus the guy I bought it off I have taken at least $200 from him since!!! So I gues I am saying only buy one if its $100 or less and you change the ferrule, tip and get it tapered!!
My friend bought a set of three off ebay, where it says that each one is a $300 cue, though all three were sold for a total of $150. I've hit with it a little, and it did not feel good at all. The wrap felt cheap, the shaft felt cheap, and it just did not feel solid at all. It felt like a cheap Walmart/Sears/Sports Authority type cue, not the expensive cue my friend claimed it to be.
I don't have that much experience with cues, I've hit with some nice house cues, Dufferins, Lucasis, Cuetecs, and McDermotts, all the lower end ones that college students can afford. And I would rather hit with any of them than a KC. It looks like a nice cue, but I did not like the feel of it.
When I first picked up a KC, it felt odd, in a shoddy way. When I picked up the first good production cue I've ever played, a Lucasi D-1, it felt very nice and better than any house cue I've used. I didn't have that same feeling instantly, or at all, with the KC.
I don't have much experience, heck I'm probably one of the least experienced people here. I have had some experience with a KC, and while I could play with it, it wasn't the same feeling of joy that I felt when I've used nice, mainstream production cues. I may not have the experience to talk about deflection, squirt, feel of a solid hit, or have any experience with different ferrules or tips, but I can tell you that thing did not feel as good as some of the nice Dufferin house cues my school has in our pool hall.
Now that I've gone off on how bad they are, the price for them was cheap, they looked nice, at least my friend's did. It didn't have decals, it had some exotic looking wood on the butt, and looked like a good cue.
I don't have that much experience with cues, I've hit with some nice house cues, Dufferins, Lucasis, Cuetecs, and McDermotts, all the lower end ones that college students can afford. And I would rather hit with any of them than a KC. It looks like a nice cue, but I did not like the feel of it.
When I first picked up a KC, it felt odd, in a shoddy way. When I picked up the first good production cue I've ever played, a Lucasi D-1, it felt very nice and better than any house cue I've used. I didn't have that same feeling instantly, or at all, with the KC.
I don't have much experience, heck I'm probably one of the least experienced people here. I have had some experience with a KC, and while I could play with it, it wasn't the same feeling of joy that I felt when I've used nice, mainstream production cues. I may not have the experience to talk about deflection, squirt, feel of a solid hit, or have any experience with different ferrules or tips, but I can tell you that thing did not feel as good as some of the nice Dufferin house cues my school has in our pool hall.
Now that I've gone off on how bad they are, the price for them was cheap, they looked nice, at least my friend's did. It didn't have decals, it had some exotic looking wood on the butt, and looked like a good cue.
Meucci_Man
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Dont Do It!!
Between myself and a couple of friends, we bought 12 of them through Ebay and the dealer (all within a week of each other). Out of the dozen we had 4 that were ok. 2 of them even had,what seemed to be a saw cut between the ferrule and tip,the tip was only half on and you could see a 3mm gap going through it . It was easier for us to fix them up and sell them at cost then return them. It sounds like a great deal but I think you would be just as happy buying a $50 cue/case combo from the back of a Meullers Catalogue.
Sorry if I affended anyone,JMO
Between myself and a couple of friends, we bought 12 of them through Ebay and the dealer (all within a week of each other). Out of the dozen we had 4 that were ok. 2 of them even had,what seemed to be a saw cut between the ferrule and tip,the tip was only half on and you could see a 3mm gap going through it . It was easier for us to fix them up and sell them at cost then return them. It sounds like a great deal but I think you would be just as happy buying a $50 cue/case combo from the back of a Meullers Catalogue.
Sorry if I affended anyone,JMO
Meucci_Man said:
Now hold on .I had a a kc cue .And all i can say is that they make good fishing poles .Flag poles But pool cues thay r not ..if u can get it cheap from anyone .pay them to burn it ...
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