first purchased cue was action cue for 79.20, purchased on ozone 13mm shaft. better then the sport authority crap, or cheap 2 piece cues that come with tables.
Ten years ago joined the league, noticed people had turned down lathes. Purchased a Viking for 130 from ozone, shaft 12.25. Big improvement over action cue. hit felt nicer, and had much more action with thinner shaft.
5 years ago, borrowed a friends cue with predator z shaft, broke and run.
Week later bought i believe the 5k2 model from seyberts, with moori tip about 550. predator had sick action, but felt control issues on long shots. and at times to much action, hard to control, viking at 12.25 had good action, a little easier to control.
Went back and forth between z2 and viking for a few months, noticed several decent shooters in the league had meucci's, sold predator, and picked up meucci hof-3 with blackdot 12.75mm shaft used on ebay for 200 bucks. big improvement over both viking and predator. but still wanted to believe predator hype, few years ago purchase a z2 shaft for meucci as well new for 280 with moori tip, after a year or decided to go back to mecci black dot.
Few months ago, looked to upgrade once again read and asked around here on az. Many folks said SCHON solid hit!!!
Recently Purchased schon on ebay for 730 with 2 shafts at 12.75 and moori tips. I never knew what that cue hits solid meant, but now I think I do. The thing hits a friggin ton. Very pleased with feel and control. In my quest for excalibur, also purchased shafts for schon, 314-2, ob1, black dot, tuger ultra ld, mezz wd700, think i like the stock maple shafts the best, as they're the only ones that really produce that solid hit feel, also just picked up a Mottey shaft for this, and another shaft im waiting on which could potentially be a tascarella or a bulabushka, or just a shaft for a little fish. More shaft testing is needed. The butt is real heavy, would like to get it weighed. Being that I had 17 new 5/16X14 shafts, I decided to pick up a joss butt, and a Scruggs sneaky pete with the same joint.
Schon #1, Meucci #2, Scruggs SP#3. i think i might actaully prefer schon for 8 and straight, and meucci for 9.
Before I went to first SBE this year and discovered AZ I had 3 Cues. Now I have 10 cues and 8 additional shafts.
I am now poor and cannot afford to play pool.
I'm probably going to be fired from my job, which is where most of my research and surfing is done. AZ Billiards is ruining my life.
but anywayz, let's not get off topic. 
