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HOWDY FOLKS,
I have been watching the thread about which cues are best and so on. I think it's un-fair to post opinions about who can build the best cue. No one, and I mean no one should make that call, period. This could possibly hurt many of the cuemakers of today.
They all need to feed there family's.

I am known to build great playing cues, and so are 100's of others. SO WHAT??????????

My cues are not for everyone and everyone's not for my cues. This applys to all cuemakers and customers alike.

No one can make that call of who's the best of the best..
As cuemakers go, it would be unfair to not include all cuemakers in the poll. So why not let each buyer deside on our own. This would be fair to one and all.

Let the cue buyer go for themselves, after all he or she is spending the cash. Let them make up there own mind to as how a cue hits the ball.

WOULD YOU FOLKS WHO ARE GIVING ADVICE, LIKE TO HAVE SOMEONE PICK YOUR CUE FOR YOU, OR WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND?

In my opinion, rating cuemakers is wrong.

Not trying to offen anyone folks, OK.

Thanks
Blud
 
blud said:
HOWDY FOLKS,
I have been watching the thread about which cues are best and so on. I think it's un-fair to post opinions about who can build the best cue. No one, and I mean no one should make that call, period. This could possibly hurt many of the cuemakers of today.
They all need to feed there family's.

I am known to build great playing cues, and so are 100's of others. SO WHAT??????????

My cues are not for everyone and everyone's not for my cues. This applys to all cuemakers and customers alike.

No one can make that call of who's the best of the best..
As cuemakers go, it would be unfair to not include all cuemakers in the poll. So why not let each buyer deside on our own. This would be fair to one and all.

Let the cue buyer go for themselves, after all he or she is spending the cash. Let them make up there own mind to as how a cue hits the ball.

WOULD YOU FOLKS WHO ARE GIVING ADVICE, LIKE TO HAVE SOMEONE PICK YOUR CUE FOR YOU, OR WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND?

In my opinion, rating cuemakers is wrong.

Not trying to offen anyone folks, OK.

Thanks
Blud
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You'll notice most of the 'best cue' posts are by bruin70 who obviously has some Peterson cues he wants to unload. ;)

Poolmouse
 
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BTW, sorry for the mis-spelled words.
blud
went two weeks in the 9th grade, can't spell, but I can build cues.
 
It's also unfair to expect people to keep their opinions to themselves. A person gets on here and asks who others think the best cue maker is because they figure that people here would have opinions on the subject. Big deal. If someone were to post asking which car they should buy, complete with a poll, I don't think anyone would have a problem. Should we expect the CEO of Toyota to get on here and tell us all to keep our opinions to ourselves should the topic come up?

If a cue maker truly builds a good product, then what should they care what one person's opinion is? The product would speak for itself if that were the case. There is no need to defend a superior product - only an inferior one.
 
My record speaks for it's self, Jimmy.

I don't need to defend my cues, pal.

BLUD
 
Jimmy- You are absolutly right!!! However, blud has a point...each cue plays different for each player and the cue buyer should judge the cue for himself, not what everyone else thinks. This POLL is a good one, if the question was "What cues do you prefer to play with and why?", not necessarily "What is the best cue out there?" If a POLL like this is going to be out there, you have to include every single cuemaker that has/is making cues. Because many cue makers are only known and talked about in his/her immediate area.

...Zim
 
Zims Rack said:
If a POLL like this is going to be out there, you have to include every single cuemaker that has/is making cues. Because many cue makers are only known and talked about in his/her immediate area.

...Zim
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I think the poll only allows 9 choices, so I'm sure he just included 9 he could think of. However, there are a lot of good cue makers out there, but there are also a lot of bad ones. There are people who run out, buy a lathe, and think they can charge $2000 for a cue (or rather, they DO charge $2k for a cue). I don't think it's out of line to ask opinions on the "best" cues out there. At least it would give a potential buyer a place to start when narrowing down the list of cues to look at.

I'll add a few more just for the hell of it ... ;)

Tim Padgett
Jerry McWorter
Ed Pruitt
Jack Madden (relatively unknown as of yet, but I expect to see more and more of his cues. Was recently accepted into the ACA, if I'm not mistaken.)
Jim Buss
and ...

Teddy 'The DEEEE' Harris, baby (www.tedharris.com)!!! :D
 
BTW, Jimmy,

I can tell from your message that you have not ever built cues or been in this business. If you had built cues, you would know where I'am coming from.

Jimmy, I don't know what you do for a living. But consider this, if you built pooltables for a living,and some folks steered a customer in another direction and the customer never had a chance to play on YOUR table. If this were the case, would that help feed your family, or even improve the customers game by playing on your table? Wouldn't you want to be treated fair and be on the list with your tables????????[after all there are many, many cuemakers just getting started and not on any list].

Jimmy, at this point wouldn't your opinion be a little off balance with reality, buy not giving the buyer a chance to choose for themselves?

In my opinion, the rest of you should, make up your own minds about what cue you choose.

I think Zim's rack, hit the nail on the head. Without naming all cuemakers for such a pole, is not the answer.

REMEMBER THIS, there are plenty of good quality cuemakers out there. I know of at least 25 or more that are not on your "LIST". And they are jamb up cuemakers. Try and play with as many different cues as possible, before you buy. Then make up your own mind. Just don't get steered by someone too someone, who says he knows best. Find out for yourself. It's your cash.

CUEMAKERS!

You may think I don't know what I am thinking about. Well let me clue you in. Quite a few years ago, I put my cue business aside. I then set my goals to help all CUEMAKERS.

I was the FOUNDING FATHER of the American Cuemakers Association. So I do know QUALITY CUEMAKERS, some are on your list and most are not, some are members of the ACA and some are not.

I have said and will say, if you don't like my cues and it's not for you, I'll be glad to send you to a quality cuemaker.
blud
PS,
LADIES AND GENTS, WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, I WILL NOT POST WHO I THINK IS GOOD OR NOT SO GOOD. TEST ALL THE CUES YOU CAN, AND THEN MAKE UP YOUR OWN MINDS.
 
Mr. Bludworth,
You do not have to defend your cues or cuemaking ability. Your products speak for themselves. We may have had some problems, however, I will never knock your work. Tell em I own a $6,600 Blud and wouldn't sell it for anything. Not because you made it, because it hits a ton and looks better than anything else out there. I got to be honest, my wife has one and it hits a ton also. It was only $1,250 plus extras. They both hit great.
Don
 
poolmouse said:
You'll notice most of the 'best cue' posts are by bruin70 who obviously has some Peterson cues he wants to unload. ;)

Poolmouse
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since no one here knows that you and i have hung out together, they could EASILY misconstrue your post. so please explain yourself, re: if you're trying to be funny about peterson cues.
 
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blud said:
HOWDY FOLKS,
I have been watching the thread about which cues are best and so on. I think it's un-fair to post opinions about who can build the best cue. No one,,,,,,,,,,,

In my opinion, rating cuemakers is wrong.

Not trying to offen anyone folks, OK.

Thanks
Blud
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the poster seems fairly new to cues and wanted feedback. he understands that they're all opinions. now, he could go through the very slow process of trying every cue made(that should take two years), or take advantage of the internet and either screen or expand on the list he already has. that's why you have message boards and places like epinions.com

the process of culling opinions about things from cues to good/bad movies is different now with the internet, than chatting with yours buddies or reading reports in newspapers and magazines.

in the end, i think he expanded on his list of cues. and he'll make his own choice anyway.
 
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Blud... you coming here and telling people not to voice their opinion is just crazy. Only someone who builds and sells an inferior product wouldnt want an educated customer.
 
Many thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Purdy,

They are very nice folks. Not just because they bought cues. They are quality folks. Some you don't mind being around for dinner, or having a few beers with.

Don, purchased a real nice cue, $6,600.00 and his wife got a beautiful $1,650.00 plus cue from her husband, Don.

THANKS FOR THE KIND WORDS.
BLUD
 
A Ford owner educates their friends that Ford is the best thing out there! Chevy does the same thing, Pontiac...same thing, they all say theirs is the best...well for a 16 year old female, she's going to believe who she trusts and buys what they have or say, then 2 months later it's not her style!
All Blud is saying is give everyone the chance to decide for them selves, they need to test drive more than a couple to determine what fits them!

...Zim
 
blud said:
BTW, Jimmy,
I can tell from your message that you have not ever built cues or been in this business. If you had built cues, you would know where I'am coming from.
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I have never built cues. Have you ever developed software? How about message board software? Oddly enough, you don't have to have any knowledge of the internal workings of any of it to post messages. Do you know what happens when you click that cute little "submit" button at the bottom of your screen (other than the obvious result of your message being posted)? Do you know how this site "knows" who you are each time you visit? Do you know how your browser "knows where to go" when you enter a URL (the www.whatever.com)? See, whether you know the answers or not, you don't have to know any of these things to form an opinion of what you like and don't like. You might even be inclined to say you think one piece of message board software is "better" than another, when, from a programmer's standpoint, you might be way off.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't have to build cues or "be in the business" to have a valid opinion on which cue makers I think stand out in the crowd. In fact, with my limited knowledge of how a cue is built, I even have my own criteria by which I form an opinion of a cue's workmanship. Isn't that crazy?

My whole reason for posting was because you had a problem with people giving their opinions on cues. I happen to have said that, although I like Southwest cues, I thought they were over priced for what they were. I am assuming that opinion was one of the ones that you thought shouldn't be posted, so I figured I'd respond. Oh well. I wish that guy would have included your name in his poll and you would have gotten most of the votes. We probably wouldn't be having this conversation right now.

Later,

Jim
 
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Amen Jim. I have never owned anything that didn't have a stainless steel joint, though I have played with Blud's cues, Southwest, Joey Gold and many other non-steel jointed cues. You just can't convince me that any of the joints Blud or the others uses is as strong as stainless steel. Like Jim said, do I not have the right to my opinion? I thank you for allowing me to voice said opinion.....$Bill
 
Zims Rack said:
A Ford owner educates their friends that Ford is the best thing out there! Chevy does the same thing, Pontiac...same thing, they all say theirs is the best...well for a 16 year old female, she's going to believe who she trusts and buys what they have or say, then 2 months later it's not her style!
All Blud is saying is give everyone the chance to decide for them selves, they need to test drive more than a couple to determine what fits them!

...Zim
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A ford owner doesnt educate their friends that it is the best thing out their unless it is. We learn from out friends mistakes. When I owned a ford, I had no problem telling people the problems I had from it.

All blud is really saying is please dont tell anyone out loud if you cant stand my cue. But if you happen to love it, tell everyone you see. It doesnt work that way. A happy customer is going to tell 5 people. A unhappy customer is going to tell 20. Thats the way it works, nothing is going to change that.

Its like I said, a good business person loves an educated customer if they make the top product. If they arent making the best stuff, they prefer someone who doesnt know what he is buying.
 
I think in the 'Custom cue poll', i asked which cue will you go for in terms of playabilitly... I didn't ask which cue makers is the best or whatever... Sorry, if i have offended anyone by posting that poll...:)
 
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