Custom cases

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ftgokie

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Since i have been out of shooting round balls with a wooden stick for 13% of a century and things have changed a lot....who makes really nice custom cue cases? I have owned a couple of Jack Justice cases, a Swift case, an Its George, a Porper and I think an Instroke case.

What are some names I need to be looking at? I will need a case for my main player, a backup sneaky pete, a break cue and a jump cue.....so 3 butts, 6 shafts and and a place to store my jump butt.

Thank you guys for helping out...I know I can google it but that may not bring up all the cases I need to be looking at......I appreciate your time in responding!

Shawn
 

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ftgokie said:
Since i have been out of shooting round balls with a wooden stick for 13% of a century and things have changed a lot....who makes really nice custom cue cases? I have owned a couple of Jack Justice cases, a Swift case, an Its George, a Porper and I think an Instroke case.

What are some names I need to be looking at? I will need a case for my main player, a backup sneaky pete, a break cue and a jump cue.....so 3 butts, 6 shafts and and a place to store my jump butt.

Thank you guys for helping out...I know I can google it but that may not bring up all the cases I need to be looking at......I appreciate your time in responding!

Shawn
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I absolutely love my Justis case, but I'm not sure if he is still making cases...he may have retired?...my next choice would definitely be Whitten...
 
JB cases make custom cases and they can make almost anything you ask for.
Only thing is that I don't like the interior, I find it to be to tight with a 3x6 I got from him. I think my Schon LTD logo paint got erased because of it (no other reason for it to wear off).
Volturi make nice cases and you can choose Instroke style tubes or padded dividers.
Whitten makes nice cases and still uses tubes (I don't get the current fab of soft padded dividers)
Castillo are also nice, the interior is soft padded dividers if you don't mind them.
I don't think there is a case out there that beats the Instroke tubes interior but it's design is stuck 20 years ago and doesn't fit today's needs like room for a longer jump cue like the modern jump cues and cue extensions. I don't think that there is a good modern case made today to fit a modern player besides some of the soft cases if you're into those type of cases.
 
I like JBs a lot. I have 2 4x8s but I think my next case will be a Castillo leather one. If not Castillo, then some other maker like above that uses JB interiors.
 
stay away from cheap brands, the top of the case will be padded but at the bottom itll be paper thin material that bangs all your cues against each other
 
skor said:
JB cases make custom cases and they can make almost anything you ask for.
Only thing is that I don't like the interior, I find it to be to tight with a 3x6 I got from him. I think my Schon LTD logo paint got erased because of it (no other reason for it to wear off).
Volturi make nice cases and you can choose Instroke style tubes or padded dividers.
Whitten makes nice cases and still uses tubes (I don't get the current fab of soft padded dividers)
Castillo are also nice, the interior is soft padded dividers if you don't mind them.
I don't think there is a case out there that beats the Instroke tubes interior but it's design is stuck 20 years ago and doesn't fit today's needs like room for a longer jump cue like the modern jump cues and cue extensions. I don't think that there is a good modern case made today to fit a modern player besides some of the soft cases if you're into those type of cases.
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I also find these JB case interiors too tight if fully loaded- I just cannot remove stuff from his cases without bumping against what is in the case during removal- I care bc some of my cues cost $thousands. I sold my GTF case bc that was just an impossible 2X4 set up. I own a JB case - well made - no reason to have that interior be so tight IMO - I don’t turn my case upside down and shake it - who does that anyhow? No one with nice cues!
 
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