You're living large when a Josswest is your backup plan.
Schon or Woodworth.....Which would you prefer?
- Thread starter Rjmoncrief
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You're living large when a Josswest is your backup plan.
Always makes me stop and think when cues that weren't overly expensive play as good as bigger cues.
I actually forgot what this cue looked like it was gone for so long.
Forgot the forearm was ebony, which seems to be more in style now.
In 2004 it was just an old cue that needed work and a tip.
I would like to get a second shaft for it.
The original shaft plays fantastic but it has a little bounce when you roll it.
Wonder if John would make me one.
Just hate to send that cue out one more time
Go with the Schon, Great Cues of course and your chance of getting replacement shafts are
excellent.
excellent.
Yep...new and original when I bought it.
Resale value? Who buys a cue for resale value?
I do it almost every day of the week.
Learned the hard way year ago when I wanted a cue made by every cuemaker.
Between my job and 4 league teams, I was too busy to sell to sell anything, and accumulated 200 cues.
I started selling off my cues in a big way after my unofficial retirement in 2012.
Resale is way up on my list before I buy or trade for a pool cue.
For me the days of taking a cue in trade just because it plays good are over.
I even buy psychic cues.
Psychic cue in that I know it will play bad, before I get it.
Only a cue collector cares. I've owned a "custom" Schon six windows for nearly twenty five years. Still play nearly daily with the cue. Original shaft as well.
One of the guys in our pool room has six or seven cues in his bags. Changes often. Constantly looking for "that hit". Don't think he would know it if he found it.
Too many players into the cue of the day. Tip of the day. Shaft of the day. Good for the vendors. Bad for the players. JMHO.
Lyn
Agree completely. Some manufacturers aren't in the pool business anymore. They are in the marketing business and are successful selling to the multitude of pool players that still think it's the arrow not the indian. It's important to be comfortable with your equipment but high dollars does not always equate into better.
I am in the camp that have come to find out that old school is the right school. If you want to pay $25 for the latest tip or $500 for the latest shaft have a ball. Stroke and a PSR that yields positive thoughts is something you cannot buy but needs to be worked on and developed.
I agree. Hard to develop consistency changing cue/shaft/tip constantly. I think some people just get bored using the same cue and switching cues has more to do with getting a new toy to play with than improving their game.