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Hello friends. I am looking for cue recommendations from someone who has played with a cue from every maker on earth. I like a whippy,stiff, crisp hit mostly. I think that it should have great feedback, but maybe not. Thanks in advance for your kindly responses.
 
Schon, of course, is almost always at the top of the list along with Mezz.
Whippy, to me, is a Meucci.
I personally use a 2005 Martin. Solid, non-compromising, yet possessing the understated beauty of a Merry Widow. Very hard to find.
Go with a Schon STL topped with a Schon/Predator shaft. You'll thank me later. :smile:
 
Whippy-Stiff....

okaaay... i think I sense your confusion. My Spidey-Sense has kicked in. So you are looking for a sweet-sour / good-evil / hot-cold / soft-coarse stick. Okay, Im tracking, I got this.

Take a brown egg and slip it into a gym sock that was worn by a lettered high school track and field star during a great moment of triumph. Seal the egg & gym sock inside a hermetically-sealed mason jar and bury it under Jerry Rauenzahn's front porch under the light of a blue moon using a hand trowel crafted of pure sterling silver. Wait a fort-night and buy a truffle hunting pig from the Seine river region of France. Release the pig inside a room that has the names of all your favorite cue makers scrawled on the floor by the hand of an inscrutable monk employing a hunk of charcoal wrested form the ill-fated timbers of an Algonquin round table.

This last part is really important, so pay extra special attention. Always... no wait, Never ever, under any circumstance...

Lesh
 
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Lesh said:
Whippy-Stiff....

okaaay... i think I sense your confusion. My Spidey-Sense has kicked in. So you are looking for a sweet-sour / good-evil / hot-cold / soft-coarse stick. Okay, Im tracking, I got this.

Take a brown egg and slip it into a gym sock that was worn by a lettered high school track and field star during a great moment of triumph. Seal the egg & gym sock inside a hermetically-sealed mason jar and bury it under Jerry Rauensahn's front porch under the light of a blue moon using a hand trowel crafted of pure sterling silver. Wait a fort-night and buy a truffle hunting pig from the Seine river region of France. Release the pig inside a room that has the names of all your favorite cue makers scrawled on the floor by the hand of an inscrutable monk employing a hunk of charcoal wrested form the ill-fated timbers of an Algonquin round table.

This last part is really important, so pay extra special attention. Always... no wait, Never ever, under any circumstance...

Lesh
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You must be a soothsayer sir. How did you know that I have a penchant for truffles?
 
Whippy crisp stiff hit?
That's a Cuetec R360 for you. Loose the Everst tip, take a Onyx or Sniper or Medium Ultraskins.
Havent played a Mezz WX900, though.

Cheers,
M
 
Tonight after dark, I`ll cut a branch off my neighbors Weeping Willow tree.
That should make a dandy of a cue. A lot of whip in those trees.
 
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jalapus logan said:
Hello friends. I am looking for cue recommendations from someone who has played with a cue from every maker on earth. I like a whippy,stiff, crisp hit mostly. I think that it should have great feedback, but maybe not. Thanks in advance for your kindly responses.
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I have played with cues from not only every cue maker on the planet, but also a few made at a great diner at the end of the universe by a cue maker named Humma Kavula. I believe the answer to your question is 42, or a Meucci but not a good older Meucci. You need one of the mid 2000's era with as much plastic inlay as you can find.
 
M.G. said:
Whippy crisp stiff hit?
That's a Cuetec R360 for you. Loose the Everst tip, take a Onyx or Sniper or Medium Ultraskins.
Havent played a Mezz WX900, though.

Cheers,
M
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That was my thought as well. If the original poster is serious and not giving us a laugh I think the R360 especially with a 12 mm shaft or so has sort of that combination. Plus you can get one for like $300 so it does not take a big investment.to try it.
 
Whippy &. Stiff versus Whippy or Stiff...

" I like a whippy, stiff, crisp hit mostly." as described by Jason.


I was going to offer some suggestions but it dawned on me that I have never seen such a shaft.
Naturally, I can't speak for other Azers but when I've found a shaft to be whippy, usually due to its
size and taper, that shaft never played like it also hit stiff? IMO, that is an oxymoron.....the cue is
either whippy or stiff but not both....and the weight of the shaft has some bearing, i.e., wood density.
The cue butt doesn't make the cue play whippy......just the cue shafts, although a heavy cue butt,
like 16 ozs, or heavier, can tend to disguise a cue shaft that otherwise would seem to play whippy.

I am not a cue-maker and have only owned less than 2 dozen cues in my life but I've tried a whole
bunch like many of you. After I started having custom cues built to my specs, I got to have some
detailed conversations with my cue-makers & more appreciate the anatomical aspects of building
a pool cue, especially how changing some aspects of the construction of the cue affects its feel & play.



Matt B.
 
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Bavafongoul said:
" I like a whippy, stiff, crisp hit mostly." as described by Jason.


I was going to offer some suggestions but it dawned on me that I have never seen such a shaft.
Naturally, I can't speak for other Azers but when I've found a shaft to be whippy, usually due to its
size and taper, that shaft never played like it also hit stiff? IMO, that is an oxymoron.....the cue is
either whippy or stiff but not both....and the weight of the shaft has some bearing, i.e., wood density.
The cue butt doesn't make the cue play whippy......just the cue shafts, although a heavy cue butt,
like 16 ozs, or heavier, can tend to disguise a cue shaft that otherwise would seem to play whippy.

I am not a cue-maker and have only owned less than 2 dozen cues in my life but I've tried a whole
bunch like many of you. After I started having custom cues built to my specs, I got to have some
detailed conversations with my cue-makers & more appreciate the anatomical aspects of building
a pool cue, especially how changing some aspects of the construction of the cue affects its feel & play.



Matt B.
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Yes, I don't think you can really have exactly both, but what I think he was looking forward is a whippy shaft that hits firm and does not vibrate much. The laminated, sealed shaft of the 360 Cuetec's seem to provide both of those characteristics. Now an older Meucci to me is both whippy and soft and with a lot of vibration.

I have not received it yet, but the Dominator shaft from Dominiak was described to me as a very firm hit but with good action which also might be a fit, though I do not think it will be whippy. Have not hit it yet though.
 
After seriously considering the question, I can state that I prefer crispy bacon.
 
pwd72s said:
After seriously considering the question, I can state that I prefer crispy bacon.
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More of a firm bacon guy myself, sort of the Gerorge Balabushka point of bacon doneness,, not too soft and fatty but not too stiff where it crumbles.
 
Do you think I could hire someone to make me a full splice sausage roll with bacon veneer and maybe a goetta forearm?
 
Picking a cue is like picking a vagina.

No way someone else is going to know which one you prefer.

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Recently bought a Mezz WD700 shaft to put on my Steve Klapp... safe to say it hits awesome and you get great feedback (if you like LD shafts)


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