Is Shane back to using his Schon? I thought I saw him recently with his old cue or is he still using a Cuetec?
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I thought his old cue was a Joss...but not sure...
I wonder if cue-tech is paying as much as they did Earl to SVB??
If not they should...SVB is a great role model for pool and upcoming pooplayers...:thumbup:
Heck im almost ready to buy one of them cue techs myself..=)
I really don't understand the pathological need for people here to try to knock the action of players.
Let's say that what you say is not true and the guy who owns Cuetec happens to read it and fires Shane? Will you feel really good about yourself that you cost the guy his sponsorship?
Now what if it is true? Do you REALLY need to report it? Is it saving the world's consumers if you make the world aware that Shane was using a shaft not made by Cuetec?
And how do you know it wasn't made by Cuetec?
You say just the facts but you are an anonymous person posting about a cursory inspection of a player's cue. Unless YOU made the shaft and personally put it on Shane's cue you can't know that the shaft was not made by Cuetec. For all you know Shane is testing shafts for Cuetec.
(I get prototype shafts given to me by Fury all the time that are unmarked)
So let me help you out here,
"I was at the SVB match and I got to look at Shane's cue, the shaft did not appear to me to be one made by Cuetec." Then you may want to qualify your OPINION by telling us that you have an R360 Cuetec and you are intimately familiar with how they look and feel if that would be true.
That way when Jones Chang, who owns Cuetec, stumbles across this someday he will be able to read it as OPINION and not "fact" and thus can calmly ask Shane about it rather than being pissed and pulling the sponsorship.
At the All Japan Championships last weekend Shane was wearing a vest with the Cuetec logo on it. I hope that he was using a Cuetec to satisfy his sponsorship arrangement.
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If you're even 1/4 as knowledgeable as your post indicates, you should know that most pros that are sponsored by a company, don't play with all of their equipment. Most of the time it's custom made to their specs. Said companies are well aware of this.
I have been in this business for more than 20 years and I know more about it than most here would ever care to know. Whether or not companies "know" about it when a pro is not using their equipment and whether they want that advertised are two different things.
But the point is that Shane has said that he uses the cue off the rack. So unless the above anonymous poster is going to say Shane is lying or unless he truly has 100% factual knowledge that the cue Shane is using is not a Cuetec he ought to just not say anything.
Otherwise, companies will just stop sponsoring players when anyone can jump on message boards and "anonymously" claim that so-and-so is not using the cue brand they are endorsed by. Much better to put your name on events if you have to worry about people spouting off that your player doesn't use your equipment - with no proof at all to back it up on top of it.
So Lance, if you were a professional player and you were sponsored by a cue company would you use their equipment?
If you didn't use their equipment would you tell them that?
Since you claim that "most" pros don't use their equipment or partially don't and that most companies are aware of it, I'd like to know what you would do.
I can tell you that I have been involved in several deals worth tens of thousands (low I know but still a decent payday) and not one time has the "pro" admitted that they aren't using the equipment from the brand that sponsors them. Sure a couple times we have found that out later but no one calls up and tells us.
I was at the TAR match where Shane played Frost in Iowa a few years back and at the end of one evening we got a chance to see Shanes cue. I wont say that im 100% sure about this but to the best of my knowledge it was all Cuetec. If memory serves me right, he said it was the same cue that anyone can buy.
But it wasn't a few years back, was it? Thought the Cuetec deal was more recent than a few years ago. Was he playing with a Cuetec before they signed him?
He played with an old R-Series Schon before he got on with Cuetec, I had the exact same cue once. He has been with Cuetec since August of 2009 at least.
Here are some good Videos where you can see his cue
Schon - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtGe0FouC6A
Cuetec - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp6ATrJeGzw&feature=related
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He had his first cue, a Schon before he signed with Cuetec. I think he's been with them (guessing) about 2 years. I think he has played a Cuetec for the entire time of his deal.
He plays better than us, but I don't think its only the cue.
Shane has the R360 shaft - which I'm sure is tapered to his specs. Remember, these new Cuetec shafts aren't fibreglassed, they're wood. You can tinker w/ tapers until you get it just right. Shane has been playing better pool w/ his new cuetec than he did with his old Schon butt/joss shaft and that is saying something! No need to go back.
If you look at this month's Billiards Digest, it looks like Shane has his old Schon in action. Just asking...
Shane use to play with a Joss with a Schon shaft if my mind serves me right. He now plays with a Cutec but and a Cutec R360 shaft
I feel i'm a pretty good judge of people over my 70 years. I believe that Shane's word means more to him than the money. I know he broke with his old cue in a few matches since going with Cuetec, but I don't believe he has played with anything but a Cuetec R-360 in a tournament or in a TAR match since going with Cuetec. Johnnyt
That is what I thought, so maybe the pics I saw were of Shane breaking.
I was also at the tar match with frost here in Iowa. I can say 100% certain that he was not only using a cuetec butt with an r360 shaft but that he was also breaking with a cuetec break cue. He also was using the same cue in action that night. I spoke with him and several from his camp about it.
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I'm only offering what I know, which you just confirmed with the bolded comment. I never said everybody uses something different. A lot of times it's made to their specs, as I had done for me as well.
You're barking up the wrong tree.