How many people here play with a fancy custom cue?

[MmmSharp]

Through trial and error i have landed on knowing my preference is a 18-19 ounce cue, forward balanced full splice with a maple forearm. The jury is still out on wrap or wrapless.

Like most here i have cues that cost me couple hundred, and some that cost me couple grand. My main player is a full splice sugartree. Not a fancy, but a well built cue from a respected cue maker.

I can lose with any cue. I just like to lose with a cue that feels good when i hit with it.

 

[David in FL]

I can lose with any cue. I just like to lose with a cue that feels good when i hit with it.

I’ll go one further. I prefer to lose with a cue that makes me smile whenever I pick it up.

 

[Quesports]

I play with a pool cue. Some might think it is fancy and some may not. I could care less what they or anyone thinks of my pool cue, as long as they rack the balls tight and right!

 

[mikemosconi]

I always thought the pièce de résistance was the short thread of wrap undone and dangling at the back of the cue.

Lou Figueroa

 

[mikemosconi]

If we ever get caught up in a cue being what our game needs we can be sure we have taken the wrong fork in the road some time ago.

HA HA - like every golfer that goes through a multitude of club changes looking for the magic bullet- golf is all in the swing and pool is all in the stroke- 90% of success in both games becomes the stuff between your ears once you reach a certain level of proficiency.

Once you have proven to yourself that you can swing or stroke correctly, the challenge becomes to do that correctly every single time - how consistently does your mind allow your body to perform the stroke that you know and that you have have experienced as the way it should all come together.

 

[Bavafongoul]

Originality doesn’t get usually considered by most folks viewing a cue.
The general reaction typically is a thumbs up or thumbs down approval.

It’s only the cue owner, and cue maker, that originality matters the most.
Design intricacy indicates it takes more time & effort to complete the cue.

Once the visual impression hurdle is cleared, then it becomes a matter of
how the cue was completed. What are the components in that pool cue?

Everyone has an opinion. You don’t need to be correct about something to
think a particular way. Same is true of cues. What you like I might not & vice
versa. IMO, looks aside, a cue made to your exact preferences plays better.

 

[LWW]

My ‘FANCY’ setup is a PREDATOR 4 point sneaky SS joint and 314-2 play shaft and BK-2 break shaft.

My carry setup is a DUFFERIN sneaky and a home brew VIPER break cue in a SCHMELKE box case.

 

[CocoboloCowboy]

Fancy Is like the word Drunk, one person definition is not everyone definition.

 

[jlrowe]

I shoot with both. Just depends If i want to show off my cue and have a conversation piece. I will shoot with fancier higher dollar cue. If i want to shoot for the cheese and need that extra ball or two I will might grab my plain jane MO-1 Meucci from early 80's or my plain Black from 76. I have better cue ball control with these two.