Is your most often used cue and favorite cue, the same?
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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.
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.
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Nope.
The Joss breaker and Tiger Pete see the most play because of leagues and availability of bar tables locally. They play great and are replaceable.
The Bluegrass and Cohen are easily my favorite cues. They are truly a joy to play, beautiful and an extension of my game. I usually only play them on 9' tables at actual poolrooms.
All the other cues are being gently reintroduced back into the wild, no matter how rare or beautiful.
The Joss breaker and Tiger Pete see the most play because of leagues and availability of bar tables locally. They play great and are replaceable.
The Bluegrass and Cohen are easily my favorite cues. They are truly a joy to play, beautiful and an extension of my game. I usually only play them on 9' tables at actual poolrooms.
All the other cues are being gently reintroduced back into the wild, no matter how rare or beautiful.
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Favorite cue is a mid 80's Shon R6 with a Rogue gen 1 CF shaft. I waited 20 yrs to get the cue and it hasn't let me down in the 15 yrs I have owned it but it is largely retired now. Playing cue is a 60" Schmelke blank turned by Joe Callalucca w/ gen 2 Rogue CF shaft. Cue is wonderful to play with but I actually prefer the gen 1 Rogue shaft.
The Old Jaybird
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getting this on my tombstone
Pool cues are a tool for pool player as a car is a tool for a driver, my cue is the best tool for me that I have found, this of course is subjective, you could hate my cue, it doesn't mean my cue is bad, it only means it's not the right cue for you.
bigdaddydave
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My point was, as far as the car analogy goes, there are huge differences in what a Sentra is capable of and what a z/28 is capable of. There are things that a Sentra cannot do that a z/28 can do.
Out of alll the playing cues I’ve ever owned, there hasn’t been one that did something the other ones couldn’t. That includes carbon, ld maple and traditional maple shafts.
I don’t hate your cue. I’m glad you found a cue that suits you well. I know I’ve enjoyed the journey of trying new cues and shafts to find what fits me best.
There is a correlation here that my teammate noticed, the engineers at Becue were pool players before they started building cues, their intent was to bring to pool what CF brought to golf, a pool cue can't add power to your stroke but it can certainly rob power from your stroke, I remember when you would hear "this cue hits a ton" what they meant was the ability of the cue to transfer the power of your stroke efficiently, that is what these cues are engineered to do, my teammate said he thought I was hitting the cueball hard, on a bar table I showed him almost 3ft of draw just using my wrist, not moving my arm at all, he was floored, all CF cues are not created equal in my opinion, I love the balance, balance point, slickness of the shaft, it just feels like it was built for me.
I find, I play equally average across all of my cues according to fargo.
My favorites? My Cohen and Schon. Sometimes I use the Rogue 2 or the Diveney kielwood or the Cohen maple shaft. Love the options. But,TBH, my 35 year old JP Sneaky plays every bit as good.
The go to right now? Cohen 60” beauty with the Cohen maple shaft.
My favorites? My Cohen and Schon. Sometimes I use the Rogue 2 or the Diveney kielwood or the Cohen maple shaft. Love the options. But,TBH, my 35 year old JP Sneaky plays every bit as good.
The go to right now? Cohen 60” beauty with the Cohen maple shaft.
vintagecollectibles831
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Even if it is warped, with a horrible fat taper, and a slip on tip? Using a Mud cue ball, and nasty bar table cloth, and a warped pool table, with bad rails? Lol.
Best cue I have ever played with, 1994 Danny Stout with a 16" balance point 1.32" butt. Paired with a Jacoby V4 - 11.8mm 30" shaft. Been playing with the butt since 2000. Need to find someone that can build me a new butt with the same feel as my forearm is starting to warp.
Cars are an active tool. They can be finely calibrated to every moment of of the driving - or racing experience. A pool stick is just a stick. Dun do anything except poke at the ball.
