Under-priced Cues - Your opinion please
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Which tour? any pictures of it?
tho i am starting to collect, this question to me does not apply to collectibility, tho value is great, having a closet queen that might not even hit too wonderful is not for me.
I've owned about 5-7 weinstocks and played with many more. His "banger" style cues are some of the best out there just simple cues, like my master stroke conversion i now have is dead nuts flawless in hit and construction, but it doesn't look like a searing or anything. and cost waaaayyy too little.
Me and Duane Remick were at his house once and Duane brought over his new $1500 Capone, it was a nice cue. Well joel had built two cues flat laminated butt and shaft, with old school canvas brown phenolic. Duane starts to run out with one of those broomstick lookin cues and was just floored how it played, and you should have seen the look on his face when joel told him they were like $150-200 or something, he was thinking dam and i just payed $1500 for the pretty one and the ugly dog is 200 and beats it hands down WTF?
The most underpriced cues are the ones that are constructed well, not inlays and pretty stuff. The correct tapers throught the cue, the right kind of joint and balance and wood selection and a experienced cue maker should be able to make a amazing player out of basically nothing. Hell best cue i ever shot with wasn't even finished, just had a wax coat on it.
For inlay work and pretty cues i believe Paul Drexler is pretty underpriced. That coaster style cue was priced at what 2k+ an could have easily been a 4-5k dollar cue from someone else.
I've owned about 5-7 weinstocks and played with many more. His "banger" style cues are some of the best out there just simple cues, like my master stroke conversion i now have is dead nuts flawless in hit and construction, but it doesn't look like a searing or anything. and cost waaaayyy too little.
Me and Duane Remick were at his house once and Duane brought over his new $1500 Capone, it was a nice cue. Well joel had built two cues flat laminated butt and shaft, with old school canvas brown phenolic. Duane starts to run out with one of those broomstick lookin cues and was just floored how it played, and you should have seen the look on his face when joel told him they were like $150-200 or something, he was thinking dam and i just payed $1500 for the pretty one and the ugly dog is 200 and beats it hands down WTF?
The most underpriced cues are the ones that are constructed well, not inlays and pretty stuff. The correct tapers throught the cue, the right kind of joint and balance and wood selection and a experienced cue maker should be able to make a amazing player out of basically nothing. Hell best cue i ever shot with wasn't even finished, just had a wax coat on it.
For inlay work and pretty cues i believe Paul Drexler is pretty underpriced. That coaster style cue was priced at what 2k+ an could have easily been a 4-5k dollar cue from someone else.
If you prefer a stiff hitting cue - KEITH JOSEY!!!
Ryan
Ryan