i'm not defending Meucci in any way just relating a few observations. first, when i first started playing,Bob was the ONLY guy talking deflection.this was 1980. second, a veritable who's who of top players played with a Meucci. i watched Buddy at the heighth of his powers and folks if you never sweated him in top gear, well, you missed something. granted, he could have used any cue, but he was a Meucci guy for a long time. lastly, there are a lot of true artists at work building the cues we now use. literally, museum grade quality. but ol' Bob's funky,whippy stix sure got the job done.
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You are right on some points.I had a mid 80's Meucci and i could draw the ball much better then any other cue i ever had. And I could spin the the cue ball great. But the cue fell apart in about 6 months.That was the problem.
All I know is that any cuemaker who goes to the Super Billiards Expo, which is like the largest pool event on the east coast, and fills 2/3s of their table space with "factory second" cues (each stamped FACT SEC on the forearm) doesn't deserve my time or money. Trade shows are where you show your best and latest stuff, not where you try and unload firewood that isn't good enough for retail sale.
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I play with an Original (84-7) that's probably 25 years old and it is in beautiful condition. Shoots good , original shaft is dead straight. For a while , before the market nosedived , I dabbled in trading Meuccis. So in a two year period I probably had 30 - 40 Meucci's in my hands. Most were beautiful sticks. A couple were beat up by prior owners and I had to get refinished but none were falling apart. I don't doubt you but I just don't understand them falling apart.:shrug:
I play with an Original (84-7) that's probably 25 years old and it is in beautiful condition. Shoots good , original shaft is dead straight. For a while , before the market nosedived , I dabbled in trading Meuccis. So in a two year period I probably had 30 - 40 Meucci's in my hands. Most were beautiful sticks. A couple were beat up by prior owners and I had to get refinished but none were falling apart. I don't doubt you but I just don't understand them falling apart.:shrug:
great they were good 30 years a go lol They used to use wooden wheels to but they found out rubber tires work better.
When they were at there height of popularity in the early 90's I can't tell you how many I saw my local pool hall sending back because they were just junk. inlays falling apart...shafts warping...glue marks..just terrible quality. They were incredibly poplar with cool designs but they just couldn't keep up with demand. If you have an original hold on to it they were good cues'. I never liked how they hit on a personal level. I was more of a mcdermot guy until I moved up to schon's. I will say I loved there designs.
If you think about it schon went through the same thing. When I got my first you couldn't just get a schon. It would be ordered and you would wait around for it. I know they mass produce them now but I honestly feel that there hit and quality are second to none. I guess that's why there still in business and doing well.
When they were at there height of popularity in the early 90's I can't tell you how many I saw my local pool hall sending back because they were just junk. inlays falling apart...shafts warping...glue marks..just terrible quality. They were incredibly poplar with cool designs but they just couldn't keep up with demand. If you have an original hold on to it they were good cues'. I never liked how they hit on a personal level. I was more of a mcdermot guy until I moved up to schon's. I will say I loved there designs.
If you think about it schon went through the same thing. When I got my first you couldn't just get a schon. It would be ordered and you would wait around for it. I know they mass produce them now but I honestly feel that there hit and quality are second to none. I guess that's why there still in business and doing well.
I had an early Muecci and used it for 20 years, was a good player. At the time it was the cue to have. I bought it in Memphis when I went to the factory. Bob seemed to be a good guy. That was the year he gave Rempe the King James Cue at a tourney in Memphis. Tom