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

[Rackaday]

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?

 

[Rackaday]

If you see these pointing at you, unscrew.

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Is that bacote w/ebony handle on the right side? Standard maple shaft?

 

[straightline]

Is that bacote w/ebony handle on the right side? Standard maple shaft?

Nah. It's ash with jet black paintbony handle. Interesting it came with matte finish and some of the car care stuff I use got on it and it's now permanently shiny. Billiard Warehouse had 'em for 90 bucks lol.

 

[SSP]

Well maybe I am wrong but a Pool Player with Skill, can play very well with a House Cue.

A banger, is still a banger with a great Custom Cue.

I agree but I love playing with my cue, it just feels like it's made for me, I did play with a house cue a couple of months ago and won 4 or 5 games with it, made me realize how good my cue is for me......

 

[straightline]

I agree but I love playing with my cue, it just feels like it's made for me, I did play with a house cue a couple of months ago and won 4 or 5 games with it, made me realize how good my cue is for me......

I was just thinking if If I had the disposable, I'd be a low level whaler <_and_> whale. The expensive players would still be possessions and probably only of sentimental value.

 

[Bavafongoul]

I only have 1 cue so its my everything

And so it should be……I was that way for years with my 1st cue that was a Palmer. I played it it for 15 years and then I met Bob Runde at his first trade show. We chatted and agreed upon a design and that’s how I got my 2nd cue years later. Then 20 years later I had the urge to design some cues and got a little carried away. You really only need one cue. I don’t need a $1400 break stick to get object balls to drop. A house cue accomplishes that & also avoids flattening my playing cue’s tip that otherwise is shaped the way I want. However, to be fair, 15 years ago I bought a McDermott break/jump stick & recently put on a Kamui Sai break tip that breaks better than a house cue.