I have only found a handful of reviews on these cues, the ones I do find give a glowing review of these cues, so....., are owner's of these cues not doing reviews or are they not selling very many of them? I now own the "naked break cue" and the "natural born naked" cue, these cues are made in Italy, they are total CF, even the butt, their website can explain all the tech that goes into the cues better than I can, you can get airbrush art work on your cue if you desire, I was only interested in getting the best playing cue I could find, in researching this I ran across an article about Torrefied wood, basically they bake the water and sugar out of the wood in a special type of furnace, this helps the wood to be more stable but it's still wood, it is affected by temp and humidity, CF is used in the aerospace industry because of it's ability to go from absolute zero to reentry temp back into earth's atmosphere, pretty sure you won't abuse it that much at the pool hall, so you will get a consistent hit, a cue that won't warp, and won't get dings within reason, just what I was looking for, In the past I had David Tice custom made cues, beautiful, hit very well, got out of pool for 10 years and have been back for 3 months so I wanted to buy my cues just once, these cues are priced in the Predator cue price range, If I had to say the playing cue has an almost space age look, it sounds a lot like a wood shaft but there is no or slight vibration, everyone who has hit with my cue says they get more action(better spin, draw, follow) than with their own cue, being back only 3 months my game has gone from not being able to hit the broad side of a barn to being able to graze it every now and then , so their is improvement, I love the way the cues hit, the minimalist style and focus on playability of the cue. Do yourself a favor and try one for yourself.