Top 5 Most Significant Cues..

You never answered. So I guess you are the joke not the cue...

No, the joke is to put Edwin Reyes' cues in the same sentence with the likes of Szamboti, Balabushka and Gutierrez. :kma:

Be careful who you're calling a joke. Takes a lot of guts from thousands of miles away.

Jim Kissinger
 
I am thinking 5 of the top cues would be in no particular order:

Ginacue Silver & Ivory cue
Meucci Original Crown Jewel
Mizerak's fancy Balabushka
Szamboti Box cue that has appeared in so many magazines.
Thomas Wayne Celtic Prince
 
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And I ask you why not??? I did not disrespect any of those top cue makers and just made my vote. I know you own high end cues but it doesn't give you the right to bash others posts. You respect my post and I'll respect yours!

No, the joke is to put Edwin Reyes' cues in the same sentence with the likes of Szamboti, Balabushka and Gutierrez. :kma:

Be careful who you're calling a joke. Takes a lot of guts from thousands of miles away.

Jim Kissinger
 
I would think whatever cue Earl Strickland used to beat the million dollar
9 ball challenge is highly significant as none of the other ones
mentioned have approached anything remotely close to that.

Admittedly, some of them have won over 6 figures
coming out of someone's pocket to own them,
 
Speak No Ill Word of the Master

No, the joke is to put Edwin Reyes' cues in the same sentence with the likes of Szamboti, Balabushka and Gutierrez. :kma:

Be careful who you're calling a joke. Takes a lot of guts from thousands of miles away.

Jim Kissinger

You know nothing of Reyes then... the work he did was far better the most americans have ever been... not taking anything from their work but the craftmanship that comes with an Edwin Reyes cue is just unbelievable. Im sure he has a few cues that can comepare to almost anything posted implying craftmanship... not history, Or maybe history. Regardless nobody should speak of Master Reyes this way. Spend a day looking through his pics on jst AZ.
 
I would think whatever cue Earl Strickland used to beat the million dollar
9 ball challenge is highly significant as none of the other ones
mentioned have approached anything remotely close to that.

Admittedly, some of them have won over 6 figures
coming out of someone's pocket to own them,

sets your sights alittle higher friend, if Eddie taylor won the money he won today pool would look like a game with money in it... Earls done alot but his cue should not be commended for it... it was a cuetec or its a plain Gulyassy... hes broke them three times aswell...
 
You know nothing of Reyes then... the work he did was far better the most americans have ever been... not taking anything from their work but the craftmanship that comes with an Edwin Reyes cue is just unbelievable. Im sure he has a few cues that can comepare to almost anything posted implying craftmanship... not history, Or maybe history. Regardless nobody should speak of Master Reyes this way. Spend a day looking through his pics on jst AZ.

Wasn't there a pic on here showing him using filler?
 
No disrespect to Mr. Reyes, God rest his soul, but none of his work is going to be in the "Top 5 Most Significant Cues".

He made some made some incredible cues, especially if you consider what he had to work with.
 
Art is Art, they all are masterpieces,which if we owned we would not part,but in the hands of a player, which has won the most money,now that truly will tell them apart.
 
Balabushka
Rambow
Gutierrez
Southwest
Szamboti
Martin

I know it's 6 but I couldn't figure who to leave out. Certainly many cuemakers have contributed a lot but IMO these are the most influential
 
1. The first full-splice
2. The first short-splice
3. The first pantograph-inlaid cue
4. The first one with a tenon'd ferrule ( not a screw-on kind that even Mosconi used )
5. The first one with a compound taper.
 
I would think whatever cue Earl Strickland used to beat the million dollar
9 ball challenge is highly significant as none of the other ones
mentioned have approached anything remotely close to that.

Admittedly, some of them have won over 6 figures
coming out of someone's pocket to own them,

Earl used a $99 Cuetec to run the 11 racks and win the million dollar challenge, but he didn't win the tournament...he came in second to CJ Wiley.

My everyday player is the cue CJ used in the tournament to beat Earl. It is a RS-11 that was made for CJ by McDermott. It has a 100% professional tournament winning record. 1 for 1.

Here is a link to a youtube video showing both of the cues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFYhtmTdza4
 

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