Help needed, where can i find pictures from Zen cue, played by Chen Siming in Hamilton/New Zealand!??
Chen Siming cue??
- Thread starter Diamond Jack
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Cuelees Polaris is what someone said on chat. https://en.cue-lees.com/product_list_detail/1.html She's on their staff.
When i went to DCC it was kinda funny to see just about all the good players/pros using very simple/subdued cues whereas almost all the fancy stuff was in the hands of DeadMoneyJoeBanger. A few exceptions like Shannon's uber-ivory Gilbert but most of the top guys all had really plain cues. Not a fan of the ultra-ornate stuff either.
I guess I'm the odd one out, I think its a neat looking cue. I bet its expensive too.
Flakeandrun
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I'd never have one, but wandering around Yuan8 open there are some insane cues that can only be described as art. It looks right in the hands of some, not in others. I find that whole concept of aesthetic interesting. Obviously it shouldn't but does affect our game. How we feel about something affects how we use it. Fu Jian Bo plays with a plain ebony Zen Merry Widow. Zhu Xi He with a SW style Zen with three ornate rings in the grip. Ko Pin Yi with a piece of art. When you see the talking cues, and having a hit with each others, it looks kinda wrong. Your cue is your 'excalibur' or some nonsense metaphor like that. I think how 'collector culture' works is a little different in Asia. Won't write an essay on exactly how, but it does.
Flakeandrun
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I meant something with a thousand points and inlays. I have a Zen on the way haha
Back to topic, someone up top mentioned Chen Siming plays with a LiSi (I think that's correct)
I'll make just as many balls with a good $80 J&J sneaky. Great cue for the money btw.
That's some irony there. When those things were 40 dollars list, I was like eh, the pin's too short, couldn't be that good.
I was playing at a place in Sydney Australia last year where I saw a very young, very wealthy Asian playing with what I believe was an incredibly ornate Zen cue. I could clearly make out the details of the design from across the room, as if the cue was a video with a higher resolution than the rest of the world. Before seeing one of these cues in person, I thought their designs were too busy, but now I understand their appeal. They really are works of art.
Extremely crafty stuff. Question I have is what's the shaft for? Just messes up the look. I think if a pool cue is your canvas, the piece should go butt to tip.
Flakeandrun
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To be fair to the craftsmanship of the shafts... They are art in their own right.
Functionally yes. Decoratively, they're all clash. Expensive cues are always displayed disassembled with the shaft(s) parallel. This is the only orientation where the chromatics work. The stark white smoothly offsets whatever the butt looks like. Put them together and the aesthetics move to superfluous, even gaudy. I see some Shurikens with butterflied shafts. This is more what I'm talking about eye candy wise.
Laminated shafts prove the glues will hold.
Flakeandrun
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Clean maple, nice ring work.
I think aesthetically we prefer different things. I don't see it as much of a 'clash' more a tasteful contrast.
To me it's like the artist only paints on one side of the canvas. Anything marketed in the thousands as fine art should at least include a display shaft that puts the design across the whole cue.
g0ds gReeN
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I wonder if she just got tired of traveling with her Southwest.
Thanks all for posting in here.
I hope that some member can post a clear photo of her cue from the championchips 2024.
I hope that some member can post a clear photo of her cue from the championchips 2024.