Snooker Cue Makers

[Fred Agnir]

I'll ask my snooker friends on the internet. If I had the opportunity to research a single cue maker who primarily makes cues for snooker, who should it be?

What resources are available on the history of cue making for snooker?

Fred <~~~ researching

 

[eales]

I'll ask my snooker friends on the internet. If I had the opportunity to research a single cue maker who primarily makes cues for snooker, who should it be?

What resources are available on the history of cue making for snooker?

Fred <~~~ researching

I am not a snooker player, but the one that always comes up is John Parris as the maker of cues for Davis & Hendry. His website is:

http://www.parris-cues.co.uk/home.html

Jim Eales

 

[Fred Agnir]

I am not a snooker player, but the one that always comes up is John Parris as the maker of cues for Davis & Hendry. His website is:

http://www.parris-cues.co.uk/home.html

Jim Eales

Great, another pool player who doesn't know jack about snooker making comments about it.

Sheesh!

Fred <~~~ hasn't seen Jim in a few years

 

[sly]

I'll ask my snooker friends on the internet. If I had the opportunity to research a single cue maker who primarily makes cues for snooker, who should it be?

What resources are available on the history of cue making for snooker?

Fred <~~~ researching

hey fred
if you were to get a snooker cue made, Kevin de Roo from vancouver canada makes the best hitting and looking cue going,been playing 25 years,and tried alot of cues,he sells alot to the asian countrys, great wood selection,and a nice guy. website is deroocues.com
hope this helps you.

 

[Fred Agnir]

hey fred
if you were to get a snooker cue made, Kevin de Roo from vancouver canada makes the best hitting and looking cue going,been playing 25 years,and tried alot of cues,he sells alot to the asian countrys, great wood selection,and a nice guy. website is deroocues.com
hope this helps you.

Thanks. I'm actually looking to do an article, and I need to tie in some cue making history. I guess I'm looking for the Ginacue or Schrager (or an Abe Rich) of the snooker world.

Fred

 

[Voodoo Daddy]

Thanks. I'm actually looking to do an article, and I need to tie in some cue making history. I guess I'm looking for the Ginacue or Schrager (or an Abe Rich) of the snooker world.

Fred

Ya know Fred, if Efren played Snooker.....

 

[seiyaryu55]

Well, im no snooker expert (being in New York and all and really only one place that has snooker tables), but at least im not clueless. I have to agree that John Parris is a name that frequently pops up. Also made some pool cues too, i believe.

Theres also Kevin Muncaster (aka The Cue Doctor on the BBC).

 

[deep]

If your wanting to research a single cue maker the Burroughes & Watts might be a good bet. They've been on the go 150+ years so theres plenty of history there and there old cues are pretty colectable now.

 

[DaveK]

I'll ask my snooker friends on the internet. If I had the opportunity to research a single cue maker who primarily makes cues for snooker, who should it be?

What resources are available on the history of cue making for snooker?

Fred <~~~ researching

This may not be too helpful, but Tom Gauthier (from Vancouver area I believe) was very well respected as a snooker cue maker, but sadly he passed away. If this does not present a problem with your research he was one of the best according to many Canadian snooker players.

Dave

 

[Pizza Bob]

I'll ask my snooker friends on the internet. If I had the opportunity to research a single cue maker who primarily makes cues for snooker, who should it be?

What resources are available on the history of cue making for snooker?

Fred <~~~ researching

Gotta be John Parris. 36 of the top 50 mens snooker players can't be wrong. Check your mailbox for a PM.

Adios,

Pizza Bob

 

[AuntyDan]

Gotta be John Parris. 36 of the top 50 mens snooker players can't be wrong. Check your mailbox for a PM.

Adios,

Pizza Bob

See Fred, Jim was right. I know how hard it is to trust anyone with that kind of facial growth ;-) but Parris is the de-facto standard in Snooker cues in the UK, both in medium-end production cues and high-end custom cues. There are of course also a lot of cheap mass-produced sticks sold just like in the USA.

What's interesting about the Snooker Cue market in the UK is that there is absolutely no tradition of decorating the cues at all beyond the butterfly splices in the butt. Additionally, and again this is a very English thing, there is an almost perverse desire to own a cue that looks just like all the other cues made over the last 100 years. I'd guess the closest you can get to it in the USA is the way MLB baseball bats are made to the same specifications as old bats and their regulations actually prevent them moving into the modern era of metal and graphite.

Therefore you rarely see Snooker players in the UK comparing the cues the way Pool players, especially in the USA, do. Old cues are collectable just like almost any antique, but only because they are old and therefore rare, not because they are especially exotic or different than modern Snooker cues.

Good luck on the article!

 

[Fred Agnir]

See Fred, Jim was right. I know how hard it is to trust anyone with that kind of facial growth ;-) but Parris is the de-facto standard in Snooker cues in the UK, both in medium-end production cues and high-end custom cues. There are of course also a lot of cheap mass-produced sticks sold just like in the USA.

Thanks AuntyDan, and Pizza Bob, and of course, Jim Eales. And anyone else that I forgot to mention.

Fred

 

[raemondo]

Fred,

I played snooker for 5 years before I switched to pool. John Parris is without a doubt, the top snooker cue maker in the world, as many would say. Some of his cues are really expensive, costing up to hundreds of pounds for just some butterfly spliced woods, without inlays. I don't remember much about them snooker cues anymore, but I remember that some of the other big names would be Mastercue, Barracuda, Peradon and Riley.

Hope this helps.