watchez said:
First of all - Quality can be high or low.
Quality is all relative to an individual. What is high quality to someone is maybe low quality to someone else. For example, let's look at quality of life. To a 3rd world person, living in a grass hut - a tin roof over his head instead of grass would be high quality of life. To someone in the USA, it wouild be a big screen HD TV.
Also, when you talk about quality - how can Willee's plastic cue ARGUABLY be better than a wooden one. Is the only factor of quality if it will warp or not? Does the hit of the cue matter in the quality?
Quality is just as subjective and not a fact.
I suggest you either buy a dictionary or go to dictionary.com before you attempt to discuss anything further with me.
Makes me think of a joke -
Have you heard about the new Polish dictionary? It has an index.
qual?i?ty Audio Help /ˈkwɒlɪti/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[kwol-i-tee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, plural -ties, adjective
?noun 1. an essential or distinctive characteristic, property, or attribute: the chemical qualities of alcohol.
2. character or nature, as belonging to or distinguishing a thing: the quality of a sound.
3. character with respect to fineness, or grade of excellence: food of poor quality; silks of fine quality.
4. high grade; superiority; excellence: wood grain of quality.
5. a personality or character trait: kindness is one of her many good qualities.
6. native excellence or superiority.
7. an accomplishment or attainment.
8. good or high social position: a man of quality.
9. the superiority or distinction associated with high social position.
10. Acoustics. the texture of a tone, dependent on its overtone content, that distinguishes it from others of the same pitch and loudness.
11. Phonetics. the tonal color, or timbre, that characterizes a particular vowel sound.
12. Logic. the character of a proposition as affirmative or negative.
13. Thermodynamics. the proportion or percentage of vapor in a mixture of liquid and vapor, as wet steam.
14. social status or position.
15. a person of high social position: He's quality, that one is.
?adjective 16. of or having superior quality: quality paper.
17. producing or providing products or services of high quality or merit: a quality publisher.
18. of or occupying high social status: a quality family.
19. marked by a concentrated expenditure of involvement, concern, or commitment: Counselors are urging that working parents try to spend more quality time with their children.
Lucky for me, I have good comprehension so your smoke screen isn't going to work. Unluckily for me I can't copy and paste all the words definitions as you have due to a limited number of allowable characters so if you want to look up the words in all caps, they would help you understand.
Quality is something that can be measured. Can it be relative? Sure. But then so can just about everything in life, thus Einstein's theory being applied to almost everything these days. Saying a diamond is hard isn't an opinion, but it is RELATIVE. If you don't know about anything better, then the best you know of is high. That doesn't make it preferential. Preference is an opinion. You can *like* something low in quality over something high in quality. That's your PREFERENCE.
I stated why Willee's cue is one of quality, but since you seem to have missed it, I'll repeat it:
"because the workmanship is there, and the execution is there."(FACTUAL)
The rest is an opinion because as I stated, it is ARGUABLY a better (opinion) cue because of humidity being a non-factor.
Is it pretty? I don't think so, but apparently some folks like it since he can't keep them in stock. I don't think the hit of the cue matters in the quality, as hit *is* subjective. What you think is a nice hit I may hate. Or we may think the cue hits horrible, and Efren may think it's the best thing since sliced bread. I don't want anyone to judge your cue by the way it hits because that is all opinion. I want them to look at your work and say, "Does the taper stay true the entire length or are there waves? Is the pin straight? Does the shaft flop like a clubbed baby seal? Is there a lip or gap between the shaft and the ferrule? Does something 'buzz' or click when you hit the cue ball?" These are MEASURABLE (thus factual, if relative. A meter is large compared to a millimeter, but is very small compared to a kilometer.) items in the production of a cue. This is where execution, patience, knowledge, and attention to detail all come into play.
Perhaps I'm being petty, as everyone else seems to be kissing and making up, but I've never liked the tone of this thread as I see it as being quite disrespectful to people who have put in a ton of time and effort to something they love. And just for the record, I did go to Dictionary.com because I almost misspelled measurable as measureable.
, how long has it been since he had the blank?)
Ah...Comprehension...you will need to enlighten me on that one when you finish your project. It's funny how you seem to be the only one that comprehend everything but not anyone else :embarrassed2: Until then please spend some more time to comprehend "your project" because it doesn't sound like it's going anywhere right now. Also, maybe to increase one comprehension further, may I suggest you try to comprehend "your" own thread and what people are trying to tell you very nicely. I'm sure you comprehend all of this 
Good Luck and keep us posted. 
