cuemakers

[vijesh]

Hi

I would like to share my experience with john parris of parris cues. I was at his 2 years back, he had about 40 odd cues and he said one of the best ways to choose a cue was to narrow it down to 10 cues out of the 40 first. So after spending a few hours i narrowed it down to 10 cues (a lot of them I did not even test hit , as there were too short for me or below 9mm(tip size). then he suggested that i narrow it down to 3. Like so I did narrow it down to 3 and then finally bottomed down to 1 cue. I simply loved it .... all aspects balance, feel, whip, length, feedback etc etc etc.... Im not saying that cue made me a better player but I enjoy playing with it as well as I can hit the ball sweet with out much adjustment or much warmup. I hardly play snooker but when i do, i dont really need to adjust getting into the zone (not talking about pocketing , taking about swing and cue ball reaction). My over all experience was that I found a cue that fit me rather than adjusting to a cue.......


So my question is


Are there pool cue makers out there in the US, who would use this approach???

the second part of the question would be

has any pool player out here, have experienced a similar experience ??? or do most pool player just adjust with what they get???


Regards

VJ

 

[pdcue]

Hi

I would like to share my experience with john parris of parris cues. I was at his 2 years back, he had about 40 odd cues and he said one of the best ways to choose a cue was to narrow it down to 10 cues out of the 40 first. So after spending a few hours i narrowed it down to 10 cues (a lot of them I did not even test hit , as there were too short for me or below 9mm(tip size). then he suggested that i narrow it down to 3. Like so I did narrow it down to 3 and then finally bottomed down to 1 cue. I simply loved it .... all aspects balance, feel, whip, length, feedback etc etc etc.... Im not saying that cue made me a better player but I enjoy playing with it as well as I can hit the ball sweet with out much adjustment or much warmup. I hardly play snooker but when i do, i dont really need to adjust getting into the zone (not talking about pocketing , taking about swing and cue ball reaction). My over all experience was that I found a cue that fit me rather than adjusting to a cue.......


So my question is


Are there pool cue makers out there in the US, who would use this approach???

the second part of the question would be

has any pool player out here, have experienced a similar experience ??? or do most pool player just adjust with what they get???


Regards

VJ

The whole idea of a custom cue is to get the cue that fits you.

It is way beyond unlikely that you would find a US cuemaker with 40 cues to choose
from - the approach is more oriented to building the cue with specs that fit you.

BUT - the goal is the same.

Dale

 

[vijesh]

thank you for your input dale .....John is a custom cue maker as well... hes not a pool cue maker though..... and secondly its hard to find a cue with what specs you want unless you have played the game for while....

 

[worktheknight]

I use a old Schon throughout the summer, a Scott Erwin Cue in winter league and most tournaments and for the tournaments that actually have awesome pool tables that are fast, I shoot with a Bob Runde cue. The Schon is rigid and heavy and plays like a mack truck for the humid summer months where tables feel soaked, the erwin plays all around well for the winter league where there is no humidity and the felt is dry, but, we still have non attended crappy tables and the Runde allows me to put a pretty good stroke on a ball, but, with the old Micarta ferrules, seems to lighten the cue ball without running everywhere unless I want the cue ball to do so after impact.
I satisfy my mind easier to shoot with a different cue during the different conditions than to scramble my brain of why I am not getting the same results throughout the entire year. We have no billiard establishments here that keep the tables consistent throughout the year. Sometimes, it's just nice to get a little different feel from a different cue. You can easily tell that I am not a professional player, lol.
Have a great day.

 

[galipeau]

JP is a bigger company than most of the smaller shop custom cue builders here. Having 40 cues on the wall is money being tied up. Most guys who are well known already have wait lists for their cues. and most buyers have specs they already prefer. I would love to go through the process like you described to pick out a snooker cue. It sounds almost exactly like what the old school English shotgun makers do for fittings (without the tweaks to the cues themselves). I'm guessing that's where they got the idea. In my experience, some builders don't want people even coming to their shop. It's time they could have spent working on their backlog. There are exceptions though, and some builders don't even do orders, they just build whatever they want and people buy it.