Orcullo's cue....??

I never heard of Universal cue brand. Is that a new company? Is it the same as Stroud's Universal Smart Shaft from a decade or two ago?
 
AtLarge said:
I remember a story from W. W. Woody's book on Buddy Hall ("Rags to Rifleman"). The year was around 1990 plus or minus one or two. Buddy won a tournament somewhere and a spectator offered him a too-good-to-refuse price for his cue. Buddy sold it. Soon thereafter, Buddy was to play a series of tournaments on the Florida tour. He still didn't own a cue. So what he did was buy a new cue at the start of each tournament and then auction it off after the tournament. He won something like seven tournaments in a row doing this.


[Repeated from about 9 years ago.]
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I've seen the Legend Scotty Townsend do this in person. Walk into a tournament without a cue, buy one at the hall, then proceed to wreck the field!

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I believe "Earthquake" showed up for a big tourney without a cue and Jay Helfert loaned him one and, yes, he won... :cool:

Jay might confirm. :wink:
 
iusedtoberich said:
I never heard of Universal cue brand. Is that a new company? Is it the same as Stroud's Universal Smart Shaft from a decade or two ago?
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Universal is Hamson internationals`s own brand. It`s the same company that makes Predator, Lucasi, Dufferin, Riley and many other brands. They state on their website that they make millions of cues.
You can find a short summary here:
http://www.dufferincues.com/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=lists&catid=53

I have yet to see their cues up close, but I guess their at about the same quality as the other brands they make.

pt109 said:
Some pretty current info....Dennis changes cues like some people change their socks.
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Not to be rude, but is he gambeling away his cues, or is he just one of those players that needs to change equipment all the time?
 
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