if you could....

[JoeyInCali]

Fred <~~~ would pick Mike Lambros

Can't pick Lambros.
They're high-end and have good resale value.

 

[Cornerman]

Do you mean that the SW cues were made at some other location?

No.

Or that hired help made the cues in SW's shop?

Hired help would be a misleading term. There was always more than one person in the shop. It's reported that Jerry considered it a team thing, not a single person thing. Even today, there are two guys making South West Cues in the shop, two guys who have been making South West Cues long before Jerry passed away.

In the final year, Jerry hardly touched a cue since he broken his collar bone, according to my source. Prior to that, he had alread stepped back his duties and was mostly doing finishing.

Fred

 

[Cornerman]

I got your dream PLAYING cue here, Egyptian king.

The ultimate safety cue. When your shooting goes into the toilet, you can always duck.

IMO,

Fred

 

[bomber]

Mike Capone built the cue I play with now and he will build my next cue. Best damn cue in the world...in my opinion. I have hit balls with a ton of nice cues...Capone is the best for me.

 

[corvette1340]

I would say for collectible cue I would choose an Earl Burton . His cues are all timeless and he didn't make many of them.
For a players cue I would have to go with a Kevin Smith. Again , he didn't make too many, but they play great. I use to have one and I lost it in a game of horse, but it had fried egg inlays with syrup veneers and chop steak ferrules. The hit was a little soft, but solid. He use to sign all of them and used a little waffle logo on the butt cap.

 

[tom haney]

I would say for collectible cue I would choose an Earl Burton . His cues are all timeless and he didn't make many of them.
For a players cue I would have to go with a Kevin Smith. Again , he didn't make too many, but they play great. I use to have one and I lost it in a game of horse, but it had fried egg inlays with syrup veneers and chop steak ferrules. The hit was a little soft, but solid. He use to sign all of them and used a little waffle logo on the butt cap.

I remember those. They had ribeye tips and a
mushroom buttcap. People used to scramble
to get them. They came with a crawfish
carrying case, didn't they?

 

[corvette1340]

I remember those. They had ribeye tips and a
mushroom buttcap. People used to scramble
to get them. They came with a crawfish
carrying case, didn't they?

I think some of his earlier works had ribeye tips , but he switched to layered hungry jack tips for his later cues. The one I had was an earlier model that came from the Berts Collection. His choice cuts of meats in these cues were impeccable. All of them were marbled and his points were all sharp and delicious.

 

[tom haney]

I think some of his earlier works had ribeye tips , but he switched to layered hungry jack tips for his later cues. The one I had was an earlier model that came from the Berts Collection. His choice cuts of meats in these cues were impeccable. All of them were marbled and his points were all sharp and delicious.

If I remember right there was quite a range. His plain janes
had regular old beef tips but his upper end cues were
something. Instead of ivory ferrules and joints, he used
actual elephant. Not all that tasty but rather elegant in
an understated way. As you might imagine the cost was
rather deer.

 

[PoolSleuth]

I hear the the GREAT EFRIN played with a 15.00 BUCK Cue for a long time, and won BOOKOO BUCKS with the El Cheapo Cue...

 

[JoeyInCali]

I hear the the GREAT EFRIN played with a 15.00 BUCK Cue for a long time, and won BOOKOO BUCKS with the El Cheapo Cue...

EfrEn even had dinner with Gus Szambotti and was offered a cue.
He turned it down for that cheapo cue.
But, in all fairness. The shaft on that cheapo cue was an old growth shaft.
Came from a bowling alley in an American military base.
Think about a first harvest maple and was pounder for decades before they became shafts.
Jessie Bundalan iirc was the cuemaker.