I've never driven a pinto either but I do know one who pays BMW price for one got scrod.
The story behind the Jackot cues
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I've never driven a pinto either but I do know one who pays BMW price for one got scrod.
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I have been known to fish a little myself, not more than one to three days a week except when I did it seven days a week.
I had two coworkers that were very hardcore bass fishermen. Tried some fair sized tournaments, fished every weekend. Every monday I could hear them talking. "I caught a nice six pounder." "My best last weekend was over eight pounds"
One monday the first one said, "I caught a twelve pounder last weekend!" The other one said, I pulled up a double mantle Coleman lantern, and it was still lit." The first one was silent a minute. Then he said, "Turn out the lantern and I'll knock five pounds off the bass."
Hu
I have been known to fish a little myself, not more than one to three days a week except when I did it seven days a week.
I had two coworkers that were very hardcore bass fishermen. Tried some fair sized tournaments, fished every weekend. Every monday I could hear them talking. "I caught a nice six pounder." "My best last weekend was over eight pounds"
One monday the first one said, "I caught a twelve pounder last weekend!" The other one said, I pulled up a double mantle Coleman lantern, and it was still lit." The first one was silent a minute. Then he said, "Turn out the lantern and I'll knock five pounds off the bass."
Hu
Can hardly wait for the Limited Edition Jackpot/Schmackpot cues....
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Just talking out loud. I have no interest in defending anybody's post or insulting the ridiculousness of others.
I've hit with plenty of Schmelkes. My JackPot cue doesn't hit like a Schmelke; it hits something reminiscent of an 80's McDermott. There's something different going on, which therefore doesn't make these cues simply relabeled Schmelke Cues, in case that's what people think is happening.
Just food for thought , when Samsara made the X-Breakers, they didn't hit like a Samsara, nor were they supposed to. When people bought an X-breaker, they weren't buying a Samsara. The X-Breaker had its own specifications, and Samsara was the contract builder.
When people buy a Schuler cue built today, they aren't buying a Jacoby. There isn't a spec of design in the build structure of that cue that is anything but Schuler. But Jacoby build them all (ignoring the fact that Noel Mendoza is building a Schuler cue as well).
If Deano were to do this all over again, maybe going to Jacoby would have been a better route. In the end, I feel bad for Schmelke as well. I'm sure he doesn't need this negative press. I know people will say that I don't get it. I'm pretty sure I'm one of the few that actually does.
You didn't mention the deception so no, I don't think you get it quite yet. It's not about there being anything wrong with Schmelke, it's that he claimed it was someone else entirely.
Sent from the future.
I totally get it. I guess I must be the only one.
Fixed that for you.
Also 100% agree with logical, just because you don't mind that he was dishonest, nor do you mind that a $500-$600 cue hit like a $100 cue, doesn't mean it didn't happen. You obviously don't get it.
...point taken Brian !!
He's just turning his nose up at us peasants that don't understand the clear similarity between high volume white label contract manufacturing and small order "custom" pool cues.
Us silly peasants, we should get on his level.
If that's how it has to read, then that's it then. This looks on paper as a basic custom batch order with customer specifications to a contract cue manufacturer. This doesn't look like a catalog order with re-labeling. Do you see it as the former or the latter?
Deano does use the carnival barker approach. No denying it, and everyone should know that he sells with hype.
One thing I think you fail to take into account is the "build quality", or lack thereof, of the Jackpot cues.
Schmelke makes a good cue - at their particular low price point.
But no one in their right mind would put the build quality of a Schmelke cue as being on a par with, let's say, Johnny Sanchez of Libra Cues.
We can all agree that how a cue plays can be very subjective, but a big part of the deception was the Jackpot cues were sold as not only well-designed, but as extremely well-made custom cues.
As we know, this is not the case.
Funny you should use the 1980's McDermott cues as a comparison. Do you think the Jackpot cues will hold together just as well 30 years from now? I sure don't.
And I won't even mention the "value" of a Jackpot cue should someone attempt to resell one.
This wouldn’t even be a discussion if the manufacturer being mentioned, had the capacity to build a $500 cue. They don’t. Sorry. If they went with Pechauer, or Jacoby, I’m guaranteeing there would be very little grief. However, when you charge double the retail of a company’s highest end offering, you’re going to be in for a rough ride. Doesn’t matter if you have Schmelke the dimensions to a SW. It would still be a Schmelke, and it would be a cold day in hell before I’d pay anything north of $150 for any offering from them.
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