Custom Cue Mythology

hi HU...

'wow', thanks for taking all that time with your post, even though it took me 3 cups of coffee this morning to get thru...

and fyi: i only reload shotshells [12 ga. for an old trapshooter], but that is cause it saved me a lot of money; say $6.00 for factory box, sometimes for $5.00; but i used to be able to 'roll-my-own' for about $2.00 with re-used hulls; but with components so high recently and even now; i still can save a lot verses factory - but for shotgunning, i feel i can not improve on the factory shotshell; it is not like a targeting at 1,000 or more yards to relinquish a target, vastly different objectives

anyway, if i get time for a long ride it may be me knocking at your door and saying, 'got any coffee?'

best,
smokey
 
Thx manwon for your kind words :-)


For sure i am also sometimes really excited when i see some cues from that many cuemakers....or if Tikkler opens his treasure (ouch..^^). But usualy the best thing is to take a cue- and test it. For me it has to feel perfectly right on my first touch and first stroke. And i am sure to know who will built my next custom-cue- the same that built my current one, because i know this person is doing great craftmenship- and the cues from him i tested were all almost feelin the same. The next should play exactly like this one-just another *style*- so just waiting for some $$$ s ^^

I could test cues a whole day- i like it to see and feel the differences personally. Glad that i m able to test from time to time from a nice guy who s collecting a bit. And his collection is full of excellent players. It hurts me every time if i see his two big cases.....lol ^^
 
MahnaMahna said:
Yeah yeah, if your fundamentals and knowledge is correct, you should be able to play with anything.

BUT....

I think you are wrong. I do not want or need to know the scientific reasons behind the fact that I don't just THINK I can feel a difference between a production vs. a custom cue, I KNOW I can.

Maybe it is the materials, the time spent on the cue, the way it was made, who knows.

All I can say for sure is the vast majority of quality custom cues play better than the vast majority of production cues. There are a few exceptions, but that is the way it is most of the time IMO.Quote

I am not sure I can agree with this. While some customs may have a nicer "feel" than the average production cue, I don't think it has better playability. I have a few decent cues, and I have a walmart $30 graphite cue that I bought when I first got a table. Quite honestly, I can make the cue ball do the same thing with any of the cues. The feel may be a little different, but the CB can be made to perform as I want it to with any of the cues. Of course low defelcetion shafts may make a difference, but other than that, the difference is more in feel than playability, and once you are used to a cue, you can do the same thing with any solid cue as another. JMO

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Community New Orleans Blend with the chicory

smokey said:
'wow', thanks for taking all that time with your post, even though it took me 3 cups of coffee this morning to get thru...

and fyi: i only reload shotshells [12 ga. for an old trapshooter], but that is cause it saved me a lot of money; say $6.00 for factory box, sometimes for $5.00; but i used to be able to 'roll-my-own' for about $2.00 with re-used hulls; but with components so high recently and even now; i still can save a lot verses factory - but for shotgunning, i feel i can not improve on the factory shotshell; it is not like a targeting at 1,000 or more yards to relinquish a target, vastly different objectives

anyway, if i get time for a long ride it may be me knocking at your door and saying, 'got any coffee?'

best,
smokey
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Smokey,

Come on down and I'll break out a pot of Community New Orleans Blend with the chicory in it. Nothing fancy, just the best tasting coffee I have found as long as you get it hot enough to make the chicory brew properly which is a little hotter than it takes to brew coffee. Insanely bitter stuff if the chicory doesn't brew.

Know what you mean about reloading for savings. I reloaded for the shotguns when I shot them a lot and when I was shooting over a thousand rounds through the pistols every week the savings were huge. I could pay $16 a hundred for cheap .45's or load quality ones for $3 a hundred. Lost my bullet supplier but I was buying top quality lead bullets wholesale 10,000 at a time for a ridiculously low price and the same folks had a deal on jacketed bullets for the Supers. Fixing to have my workroom finished and I'll set up a reloading area. Might be time to feel the need for speed again. Fun to shoot the pistols fast.

Hu
 
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