You want to buy an American car? Buy a Toyota. They're made in Kentucky.
It would be nice to know where cues are manufactured.....
I am curious where Predator cues are built?
Are they made here in the USA?
I think I remember reading that the 1st generation Predator cues were made in Florida, but did they move their production factory to Asia after they changed ownership?
Heard that they changed ownership at one time, but I do not know when that was, and if the new owner moved the company to Asia.
I thought that I remember a poster saying that they are made in Asia, but I do not know any facts.
If they are in fact made in Asia, then would a cue company like Lucasi (for example) be making just as good of a quality of cue as they are?
I see that Lucasi cues are really high end these days, but were the older Lucasi cues not made just as well as the high end Lucasi cues that are being made these days?
Sorry for the mixed questions, and sorry if any of the info that I think I read about in the past is not true.
Thanks
Judge cues for what the end product looks like and not by who made it. I have had over 80 custom cues. I had a $4500 Scruggs that was not made any better than my $479 Predator.
Yeah, I was thinking that might be possible, because I had a high end Universal cue (that retailed for around $1,000) that came with the Universal Smart Shaft, and I read that the Universal cues were made at the same factory that made Lucasi cues, and that was a super nice Universal cue with a really nice LD shaft. This was the cue that I owned at one time, and I read that they were made in the Lucasi factory (or the same factory that makes Lucasi cues).
http://www.billiardwarehouse.com/cues/lucasi/universal-un60-pool-cue.htm
The Lucasi cues, Predator cues and the Universal cues are all made in the same factory in China.
I know because I helped design the factory for Taican. One of the largest furniture manufactures in the world. Perhaps the largest. The cue factory employs only about 1000 workers.
Each cue make has different quality control standards within the factory. I set that up as well.
At the China factory quality control is relentless. A workers job is often at risk for not following protocol exactly. After every operation the cue is inspected and precise records are kept. Any cue less that perfect in sold in China or destroyed.
Taican has the ability to source and buy the finest wood in the world and have the most sophisticated wood storage of any cue manufacture in the world.
I did not design the Universal Cue but I did design the Universal Smart Shaft.
Bill S.