Why don't you lay off the mindless patriotic bullshit already. We know you hate China, you made yourself abundantly clear before.
I wasn't talking about super-cheap crap you find at Walmart, I was talking about *decent* cues made in China. Yes, there is the odd bad cue with cheaper ones, that's a risk you have to take with cues made in China, and with cheap cues made in the US as well.
An affordable decent cue will last as long as any super-expensive cue from any reputable one-cue-a-week maker if you care for it. It won't look as nice, the finish isn't as good, but the cue will last just as long. At some point you need to stop kidding yourself and realize cues are just decorated lumps of wood. Expensive cues are made of super-nice wood, and decent cues are made of decent wood. Decent wood doesn't warp if the cue was correctly made (apart from the ocasional dud). For what it's worth, I should mention that I work with expensive woods professionally. I am a gunsmith and I make stocks that range from 200 euros to 4000. Guess what? The only difference is looks and finish. The gun doesn't fire any better with the 4000 euro stock, and the 200 euro stock doesn't warp either because my woods are dried properly, despite the price.
Also, I have news for you: China can design and manufacture good products all by itself these days. It can make crap too, but it increasingly makes a lot of good stuff on its own. It doesn't need Uncle Sam anymore. Sorry it hurts, but that's the truth. In fact most of the good products you own and enjoy come from China. If you think you can buy all american these days, you're dreaming. Heck, US companies themselves don't want to manufacture in the US where its more expensive.
Oh, and Meucci gets its blanks from China (even complete cues in the case of their Medici line). As for my Meucci, I didn't buy it, I won it from a guy, and I kept it because it played good, not because it may or may not be made in the US. I don't care where good products are made, I just care if they're good, sorry.
