Is your most often used cue and favorite cue, the same?

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What brand/model/cue maker butt and shaft do you most regularly shoot with? In a handful of discussions that I have had, sticking with the same cue is recommended for skill development or to play consistently. Anyone disagree with this?
 
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1995 Meucci 95-11 Rainbow Stained Birdseye Maple with Original shaft.
I have been considering picking up an extra shaft.
 

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Well, over the years I came across 3 cues that I love, not for how they look, but for their playability. 2 old school SS 5/16x14 simple 4 pointers, 1 flat faced ivory joint cue. They get rotated regularly as I believe cues should be played.
 
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Rackaday said:
What brand/model/cue maker butt and shaft do you most regularly shoot with? In a handful of discussions that I have had, sticking with the same cue is recommended for skill development or to play consistently. Anyone disagree with this?
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My regular is a Schuler SC-250 from the late 1990’s. I now mostly play with a CF from Noel Mendoza. It has a good amount of cueball deflection (squirt), and I believe in CF so I’m making a go of it.

My favorite cue is my Tascarella with a Tascarella shaft.

My favorite CF shaft is a Bull Carbon, but it won’t fit the Schuler, which is a 22mm diameter, and its recessed pin only sticks out ~three thread. There is no adapter for the Bull Carbon to fit the joint. Wes Bond would have to make a Schuler-specific shaft for pool.

I do also have a magnificent Jacoby Black latest model, built for the Schuler (off-the-shelf offering for Jacoby), but the low squirt.. I know I would need to commit to it for quite some time to get comfortable shooting all the shots. At my age and decline, it might not be worth it to upend my already dismal game.
 
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garczar said:
Everyone as a favorite cue and you're gonna use it the most. Don't worry about what other people use/do, find one you like and use it.
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I don’t disagree. I came in kind of hot and have already picked up around 10 cues in the last 5-6 months that I got back into playing. I made this post was just to get a sense of what some other people have tried. In my short time, I realize that slightly more of us here have to buy something to try it out. If it doesn’t work out, it sits in a bag or gets posted, likely for a loss.
 
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Bavafongoul said:
It has become much easier for me to pick a cue since switching Kielwood shafts. I have 4 shafts with different joint threads and shaft diameters. The weights are all close and as heavy as my original. maple shafts. So now it’s just a matter of deciding which KW shaft do I want to use and match it to one of my cue butts that are all the same weight.

Do I have a favorite? Not really but the cue that feels the best is my Scruggs flat ivory radial cue butt (14.5 ozs) paired with a Cory Barnhart KW shaft (29.5”, 12.60mm, 4.04ozs.). It’s a close close edging out either of my Bob Owen cue butts (14.5 ozs ea. & 3/11 brass pin flat ivory joint) & 4.0 ozs KW shaft built by Jim Pierce.

The Scruggs combination just plays so soft and sweet that you feel as if you can will the cue ball to do what you want. IMO, Kielwood plays better than the orig. Scruggs shafts I thought played great until I discovered KW.
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Very nice cue, B! You are one of the people here that contributed to me looking at the roasted maple shafts. I have 3 currently and I might add one more. I have a decent Jacoby (leather wrapped) that I pair with a Schmelke kw/roasted maple. I split my play between that and a Gold Rush wrapless w/standard maple shaft.
 
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