Dale Perry e-bay cue

measureman

measureman

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I had the chance to play with one of his e-bays cues that was bought for $150.00.
I was very impressed with it. The fit of the parts was good,not up to top production cue standards but pretty good anyway. The shaft taper was very good.
It was well balanced and had a good solid hit. Now I know his cues are somewhat hit or miss in quality but this one was solid.
If all his e-bay cues were this good I don't know how you could go wrong for $150 or so. My main concern with any cue be it a $150 Dale Perry or a big buck custom is how it plays. I could easily make this cue my daily shooter.
It has been said that he imports the blanks from China and finishes the cues here. Doesn't matter to me how he does it. This cue is worth the money.
The only question is how it will hold up after years of play.
 
I don't know about years of PLAY, but I have one that has been in the trunk of my car for about 2 years and looks brand new just like it was bought yesterday, and I live in HOT ass Georgia,lol. I keep it in the trunk in case I ever need a spare cue to shoot with and I can care less if it gets messed up.
 
I am with you Measureman, I have owned two, and both seemed to be very good cues, especially for the money.
 
measureman said:
I had the chance to play with one of his e-bays cues that was bought for $150.00.
I was very impressed with it. The fit of the parts was good,not up to top production cue standards but pretty good anyway. The shaft taper was very good.
It was well balanced and had a good solid hit. Now I know his cues are somewhat hit or miss in quality but this one was solid.
If all his e-bay cues were this good I don't know how you could go wrong for $150 or so. My main concern with any cue be it a $150 Dale Perry or a big buck custom is how it plays. I could easily make this cue my daily shooter.
It has been said that he imports the blanks from China and finishes the cues here. Doesn't matter to me how he does it. This cue is worth the money.
The only question is how it will hold up after years of play.
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I think Doug tuned up the shaft on that cue
 
cuesblues said:
I think Doug tuned up the shaft on that cue
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Maybe so. I liked the cue so much I thought about asking to trade my McFadden for it,but I would be getting the worst of it dollars wise if I needed to sell it. The McFadden would bring more dollars. But that's how much I liked it.
 
measureman said:
Maybe so. I liked the cue so much I thought about asking to trade my McFadden for it,but I would be getting the worst of it dollars wise if I needed to sell it. The McFadden would bring more dollars. But that's how much I liked it.
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I've been building cues for over 20 years and have been working on them for over 40. In my opinion, Dale Perry cues are the best bang for the buck in the cue market. He sells American made custom cues for less than I get for a shaft. I don't know how he does it.

Dick
 
rhncue said:
I've been building cues for over 20 years and have been working on them for over 40. In my opinion, Dale Perry cues are the best bang for the buck in the cue market. He sells American made custom cues for less than I get for a shaft. I don't know how he does it.

Dick
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Do you think he is buying blanks from China and finishing them here?
 
measureman said:
Do you think he is buying blanks from China and finishing them here?
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Frankly I don't believe it. It's my understanding that the source of Dale's problems originally was that he had bought a bunch of expensive equipment to build the cues in shop, but he had monthly payments on his shop equipment. When things slowed down after the TCOM rush, he still had the payments but the Japanese had quit buying and the orders just weren't coming in. When things got real tight he resorted to listing his inventory on ebay just to keep the shop open but that caused an avalanche on the value of his cues on the marketplace. I believe he builds everything in his shop, but due to the prices he's able to get for his product, because of everything that has transpired, he can't give each cue the attention to detail that he used to on his custom cues. I also agree with Dickie, that his cues are one of the best bangs for the buck, out there. They may need some personal tweeking to get them the way you want them, but hard to beat for someone who's not interested in who made it, just that it gets the job done.
Sherm
 
cuesmith said:
Frankly I don't believe it. It's my understanding that the source of Dale's problems originally was that he had bought a bunch of expensive equipment to build the cues in shop, but he had monthly payments on his shop equipment. When things slowed down after the TCOM rush, he still had the payments but the Japanese had quit buying and the orders just weren't coming in. When things got real tight he resorted to listing his inventory on ebay just to keep the shop open but that caused an avalanche on the value of his cues on the marketplace. I believe he builds everything in his shop, but due to the prices he's able to get for his product, because of everything that has transpired, he can't give each cue the attention to detail that he used to on his custom cues. I also agree with Dickie, that his cues are one of the best bangs for the buck, out there. They may need some personal tweeking to get them the way you want them, but hard to beat for someone who's not interested in who made it, just that it gets the job done.
Sherm
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The one I played with certainly got the job done.
I don't care who makes the cue or if some of it came from China,hell I'm the guy that loves his Lucasi :grin-square:
 
The only question is how it will hold up after years of play.
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Bruce, I still have a couple that were purchased several years ago as does my wife. Hers is her main player.

My first one is a very nice curly maple. A while later, my wife bought me a purple heart cue. Amazingly so or maybe not (1 of 1s, you know), both designs are so close that you might see that they are a matched set. I decided to keep them that way.

Years later, people are saying that the quality has gone down. Considering that I haven't bought another in some time, I have no way of checking that.
The time period that I was buying quite a few and now.

Either way, I have found that of all the ones that I bought, played with and kept are very consistent in balance, playability etc.

A few of the problems that people have posted about are rather minor in most cases and are for the most part an easy and cheap fix.

Dale usually has approx 7 or more auctions going on at any one time. If you don't or can't get the one you want for the price you would like to pay, just wait a day or two and there will be more.

For $150 give or take, I guarantee that you will never get yourself a nicer everyday player.

Most of ours were purchased before the market fell out a bit and cost usually between 200 and 300. Usually low 200 and sometimes under a bit.

After several years, still going strong so I doubt you have anything to worry about in that respect.
 
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