best hitting cues

Best hitting cue

Good morning,
My goal is to produce a fine playing cue with minimal inlay and highest quality woods from around the world. Feedback is maximized and subtle stylish appearance is presented. Please feel free to visit my website (www.triplecrosscues.com) and see if something there is interesting to you. Check out the sold cues also for ideas for your cue search.

Thanks in advance for checking them out. I agree with Blud about trying them out if you can. Various tips and ferrules and taper all enter into the "feel or hit" that you will experience. Service from your cuemaker is important also.

Hope to talk to you soon.
Tom Gedris, Triple Cross Cues:cool:
 
I would love to see as many as possible of these.

MasterClass said:
I think that is ridiculous.

Considering you can get a 4pt 4 veneer Scruggs for under 1k!
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Where can I get a four point 4 veneer Scruggs for under 1k???????????

Please send me pictures of any and all of these cues for I would be very interested in buying a few. email to kevinlindstrom@msn.com

Thanks

Kevin
 
PROG8R said:
according to the current market. $$ for $$ a plain jane Eric Crisp sneaky pete will cost you over $1400.00 :eek: :eek: :rolleyes:

I like blud's SP my self as well as an old joss sp
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I agree.

I'm sure Ill get flamed for this but this board is responsible for alot of the insane prices on certain cuemakers.

Some unmentioned cuemakers and cuedealers on this board hype a guy up with a handful of "this wood was dug from the pits of hell, drying in 4000 degree flames for eternity, it hits a metric ton". Next thing you know his cue prices have tripled and everyone has to have one.

I personally think cue "hit" is mostly hype and any straight cue with a good taper will do just fine.
 
I hate to be a PAIN in the Butt,
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I personally feel HIT can not be measured on a scale like Height, Weight, Width, or other MEASURABLE COMMODITIES.

IMHO Hit, or Best Hit,
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is an individual thing, like, dislike, or personal preference.
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Like if I was to ask a resident of say San Francisco, what is, or where is the BEST CHINESE Restaurant in San Francisco. As I ask more San Francisco Residents, or Regular visitors to San Francisco, I would get a longer list of answers.

Also I personally do not believe the hit of a particular Cuemaker can be duplicated 100 Percent from cue to Cue with different woods, as wood unlike extruded, or forged metal each have it own characteristics from piece to peace, depending upon where the WOOD was grown, what tree it was harvested from, and the growing conditions it grew in.
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Bottom line is if you have personally found a Cue, or Cue you like the Hit of, or the way they play. If that Cue cost $50.00, or $10,000.00+ You have the right Cue for you. IMHO Also most Cues IMHO have the ability to player, better than the Player who hand they are in. As I personally feel 80-90% of a Cues performance is based upon who's hand the Cue is in.

Like Efrin, Johnny A, or Strickland.
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manwon said:
I must agree, for a Sneaky Pete that is certainly out line. But if the cue maker can get, I can't fault him!!!!!;)

My only question is if people are paying that kinda price for a Sneaky Pete, and they are, what are these people thinking? Do you think that the buyers are that uneducated about what they are buying, or what?:confused:

In the end, I agree with you!!!!!!
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I just got a sweet cocobola Bob Frey sneaky with a sniper tip, and an Ivory ferrule, and I LOVE it. It was $430 with shipping, and it's a great looking cue as well. That's about my limit on a sneaky. It ain't the arrow it's the Indian after all.
 
You pay a little more, but the Steve Mizerak line at Walmart have a cool screw on tip. And for only $3.99 more, you can buy like eight extra ones. I'm not sure how radially challenged they are. I don't even know what that means, but for less than $20 bucks they kick a$$.

Pete Ohman makes a good cue, too.
 
The best hitting cue is always the one that someone is selling. Could never figure out why they would want to sell the best hitting cue that they have ever played with.:confused:
 
In no particular order:

Hercek, Szamboti, Searing, Stroud, Webb, Haley, Tucker, Scruggs, Showman, White, Mottey, Josey...... and I could go on.

One thing I've learned is that a quality cue, made by a lot of people, plays great. Find a cue that feels good for you and play with it.
 
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manwon said:
There is no such thing as the best hitting cue, unless you are referring to what is best for you. Because there is no best hitting cue, each cue has it's own individual hit. While cue makers strive to make repeatable hitting cues there are too many variables to allow for every cue built by anyone to hit exactly the same including South west.

So, in my opinion there is will never be the best hitting cue, due to how subjective the question really is, and the differing opinions of players who use these cues.

Oh and by the way, if anyone says that every cue they build, or every cue made by a certain cue maker is a Monster Hitter, Hits a ton, Crushes the balls like no other, and on and on this is just hype. Where I come from when people can only use these subjective terms to describe cues they really need to be educated on the above subject. Because they do not know how foolish they look.

Hope this helps, and no disrespect intended for your question, nothing that I said is directed at you.
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Right on my friend, Just like I said, OPINIONS, OPINIONS AND MORE OPINIONS..

I'm sorry guys, but those who are giving there opinions, and getting opinions, need to re-think there questions and there answers.....

This subject matter has caused a lot of crap for all the years, I've been around pool-hall, and cue shops, [55years] still crap talk. not trying to aim at anyone, but s**t. talk about something positive, for a change. Why talk about how it hits, let the guy buying deside that..PLEASE...............
Blud
 
Kevin Lindstrom said:
Where can I get a four point 4 veneer Scruggs for under 1k???????????

Please send me pictures of any and all of these cues for I would be very interested in buying a few. email to kevinlindstrom@msn.com

Thanks

Kevin
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Here you go Kevin, it will most likely sell right in that price range!!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Tim-Scruggs-Cus...ryZ21568QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Here is one that ended recently for $910

http://cgi.ebay.com/Excellent-TIM-S...ryZ21568QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Watch eBay they come up all the time!!
 
TheBook said:
The best hitting cue is always the one that someone is selling. Could never figure out why they would want to sell the best hitting cue that they have ever played with.:confused:
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Now thats the funniest thing I've read in a while. Thanks.
 
Back in the early 1990s at one of the Willard's tournaments at Pheasant Run in St. Charles, Illinois I watched a match in which one of the players, whose name I don't recall, kept changing cues. He must of had 6 or 7 different ones in a huge cue case. Maybe someone out there remembers who this was.

After the match (which he lost) he told me that it is insane to play a match with only one cue as many different types of shots come up that require various cue qualities. For example, he had a one cue with a 12mm shaft for power draw shots and another with a 14mm shaft for long, straight shots. Others varied by weight and possibly taper. He said golfers would never play a round with just one club and pool is quite similar.

He was a little weird but I always appreciate people who think outside the box. Since that time the jump cue was introduced and some restrictions on the number of cues you can use have been established by some sanctioning bodies and leagues.

My point here, and I have one, is that a cue that feels great with a forced follow shot might not feel as good when executing a stun shot, a power draw or a masse. Although I have owned many cues I have yet to find the magic one that is perfect for all applications. Every cue is at best a compromise. Having said that, there are so many excellent cue makers out there today you should have no trouble finding a cue that exceeds your requirements. Just find one made by a respected make that feels good to you.
 
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bob c said:
Back in the early 1990s at one of the Willard's tournaments at Pheasant Run in St. Charles, Illinois I watched a match in which one of the players, whose name I don't recall, kept changing cues. He must of had 6 or 7 different ones in a huge cue case. Maybe someone out there remembers who this was.

After the match (which he lost) he told me that it is insane to play a match with only one cue as many different types of shots come up that require various cue qualities. For example, he had a one cue with a 12mm shaft for power draw shots and another with a 14mm shaft for long, straight shots. Others varied by weight and possibly taper. He said golfers would never play a round with just one club and pool is quite similar.

He was a little weird but I always appreciate people who think outside the box. Since that time the jump cue was introduced and some restrictions on the number of cues you can use have been established by some sanctioning bodies and leagues.

My point here, and I have one, is that a cue that feels great with a forced follow shot might not feel as good when executing a stun shot, a power draw or a masse. Although I have owned many cues I have yet to find the magic one that is perfect for all applications. Every cue is at best a compromise. Having said that, there are so many excellent cue makers out there today you should have no trouble finding a cue that exceeds your requirements. Just find one made by a respected make that feels good to you.
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Yes, many of us saw what the guy was doing, he did have in fact, 13 cues, yes, 13.

He would bend over the racked 9 balls, and stare and stare, at the balls, then make his move to break, and sometimes he would go back and stare angain, and again.. He was trying to be a movie star, he was infact, a dumb-ass.
No other way to describde him. dumb and all get out.
I was told by a friend, that the guy NEVER won a match in several years of play-acting....
Blud
 
I've owned many cues and still have quite a few. For me the best hitting cue on the planet is my Scruggs Phantom . I've hit with the best and this one stands above. JMO.

TommyT
 
I don't think that there is a such thing as a best hitting cue. Yes I know flame me all you want but I just don't think theres a such thing. A stiff hitting cue such as a Scruggs or a Schon could be best to one person as another could think that a cue with a Medium hit could be the best. Its all a personal preference of "feel." Right now I shoot with a Nevada cue and I think its one of the best hitting cues I shot with along with my Predator sneaky pete; but then again I never shot with a higher-class cue such as a Schon or a Frey/Scruggs/Mottey.
 
I've owned a Carmeli, McDaniel, McDermott, Mike Durban, Predator, Putnam, Schon and a Meucci. I have to say, the Schon feels the best.
 
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