I'm writing this because I like to recognize people who stretch themselves and come into their own.
Steve Lomax has been around the cue making business quite some time now. He is actually from my neck of the woods; Louisiana and I have known him for more than a decade.
I attended an annual tournament in Mobile, AL last year at Breaker's Billiards and was playing in the tournament and had a break in the between matches and wandered over to Steve's repair booth and looked at some of his cues, which were stunning for the price range he placed them in. Looks doesn't really do it for me, at least as far as a cue is concerned. I am more interested in playability than anything else.
Steve suggested I try out a couple of his cues and I did. I immediately noticed that it was "easier" to play simple shots with his cue on the bar tables and that I could move the cue ball in a consistent manner, especially on straight in shots where I might want to stun the cue ball with power. Since I have been trying to learn how to play on bar tables in recent months, I thought it might be nice to have a shaft for my POW-MIA cue and asked Steve if he could build one identical to what I currently had and he said he could. I told him I wanted the shaft to play exactly like the cue that I had tested and he said no problem. I sent Steve an old shaft that had been whittle down over time and was too narrow to use anylonger and he removed the old collar and placed it on one of his new shafts.
I receive the shaft a couple months back and have been playing with it ever since. I now use it on ALL TABLES. It is an excellent playing shaft and I like it well enough that I am ordering another to match.
My son is taking up pool and I think I want him to meet Steve so that he can discuss having Steve design a unique one of a kind cue. My son is kind of an amateur archeologists of sorts, specializing in the recovery of very ancient, native American Indian artifacts from the swamps of Louisiana and has some ideas that he can discuss with Steve.
I have no doubt that Steve can build my son the cue of his dreams and that it will play well. If you have a chance you should check out Lomax for cues that are exceptional playing works of art. He's moving up in the cue making world for sure.
Steve Lomax has been around the cue making business quite some time now. He is actually from my neck of the woods; Louisiana and I have known him for more than a decade.
I attended an annual tournament in Mobile, AL last year at Breaker's Billiards and was playing in the tournament and had a break in the between matches and wandered over to Steve's repair booth and looked at some of his cues, which were stunning for the price range he placed them in. Looks doesn't really do it for me, at least as far as a cue is concerned. I am more interested in playability than anything else.
Steve suggested I try out a couple of his cues and I did. I immediately noticed that it was "easier" to play simple shots with his cue on the bar tables and that I could move the cue ball in a consistent manner, especially on straight in shots where I might want to stun the cue ball with power. Since I have been trying to learn how to play on bar tables in recent months, I thought it might be nice to have a shaft for my POW-MIA cue and asked Steve if he could build one identical to what I currently had and he said he could. I told him I wanted the shaft to play exactly like the cue that I had tested and he said no problem. I sent Steve an old shaft that had been whittle down over time and was too narrow to use anylonger and he removed the old collar and placed it on one of his new shafts.
I receive the shaft a couple months back and have been playing with it ever since. I now use it on ALL TABLES. It is an excellent playing shaft and I like it well enough that I am ordering another to match.
My son is taking up pool and I think I want him to meet Steve so that he can discuss having Steve design a unique one of a kind cue. My son is kind of an amateur archeologists of sorts, specializing in the recovery of very ancient, native American Indian artifacts from the swamps of Louisiana and has some ideas that he can discuss with Steve.
I have no doubt that Steve can build my son the cue of his dreams and that it will play well. If you have a chance you should check out Lomax for cues that are exceptional playing works of art. He's moving up in the cue making world for sure.
