New Meucci quality?

travis13

travis13

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Last night I was able to play with a new Meucci power piston cue with a black dot shaft. I loved it and shot great with it, although I remember reading somewhere where the quality of Meucci has went down the last few years. Is this still true or has the quality got better?
 
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The vast majority of the advice you will get on this board is to steer clear of any Meucci cue made in recent years -- because of inferior materials, construction, and service. Horror stories abound. Secondary market values are poor.

But if one is not concerned with resale values or the opinions of AZB cognoscenti, he may find (as you possibly have) that a Meucci power piston with a black dot shaft can be a fine playing cue.
 
old bob

imo meucci cues are worth more b4 they are built. if you shoot good with it
thats great. but i can tell you it will not be worth playing with in a few years if that.
take 3 or 4 hundred bucks and go to a cue builder. tell em you like that long meucci taper and you will get a one of a kind cue that your grand kids will be able to play with.
 
I did really like the taper. Is that taper available on other shafts or it just a Meucci thing
 
yupper

you can buy any well built cue (not meucci) and take the shaft and have it get a meucci taper tossed on it. you could go to the ask a cue builder section on here and ask were there is a local cue builder and repair guy that can do that for you. for the money buy a low end joss and get the shaft fixed on it. they last way way longer
 
Whoa, whoa.... time out. (I mean aside from being a collector, which is another whole thing and more a hobby than anything else) You like the taper? You like the feel? You played well with it? Sounds like a keeper to me.

Best part of the whole thing is you don't have to take a second mortgage on you house for it. Who the hell cares what anyone else thinks. It's wood, and glue. If you like it, I'd buy it.

Here's a thought. Buy it for the 200 or whatever, then take the other grand or two that you have just saved, and invest it in ANY number of things that returns money WAY the hell more than a cue stick.

I mean really, in terms of investing you money, think about where cue sticks fall on the list of wise investments anyhow. :killingme::thumbup:

I play pretty good with my old Meucci. Who cares if it's old or new. When I need a shaft, I buy one on ebay for 30 bucks and taper it myself with sandpaper and a little mickey mouse lathe. You can do the same thing with a drill and a friend. Don't fall for all this 200 dollar shaft nonsense unless you are fortunate enough to be loaded with money and want the novelty of it all.
 
sorta

if you love the way it plays great. and in the day (1970s to early 1980s) meucci did make some neat cues and they tryed to be inovative.

but from hanging around pool rooms and in cue builders shops i can tell you no matter how good it hits it wont last. iv seen there points fall out from lack of glue. iv seen that black dot shaft turn into an S in a week.

take the time to get a good built cue,set up the way you like, that will last for a life time or better. and custom cue dont coast all that much.

that are builders on this forum that can build you twice the cue as meucci for like 400 bucks. and thats built to your specs.

try www.dickiecues.com look at his cue page and drool. also ask him what builders think of meucci.
 
It it hits great and its a Meucci, it must be defective cue that slipped undetected in the quality control department. Send it back to the factory and they will replace it with a new one :grin:
 
Wow, OK, so being an old timer, I never even searched this "power piston" thing. $600 plus dollars?

I take back everything I said. I've never spent more than a few hundred bucks on a cue and I never would. God bless ya, disregard everything I said in the last post. $600+++ dollars, no not me.
 
travis13 said:
Last night I was able to play with a new Meucci power piston cue with a black dot shaft. I loved it and shot great with it, although I remember reading somewhere where the quality of Meucci has went down the last few years. Is this still true or has the quality got better?
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Remember one thing. Just because you liked this cue you played with, it doesn't mean you will like another one just like it. You put the same model Meucci or any other cue besides each other with the same specs and odds are that all will feel different. The fact that the cue is a Meucci would make me think twice.
 
yup

3andstop said:
Wow, OK, so being an old timer, I never even searched this "power piston" thing. $600 plus dollars?

I take back everything I said. I've never spent more than a few hundred bucks on a cue and I never would. God bless ya, disregard everything I said in the last post. $600+++ dollars, no not me.
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lol we cut one of them down the middle and they are 90% plastic.
id be the first to addmit that old meucci cues played like no other. i loved em. but that new crud is crud lol
 
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