Who are the best Foreign Cue Makers ( US Dollar is i

Hollismason said:
I simply emailed them and just asked. Again, that was just an example though. I think you could pick up some decent cues for a lower price in the exchange currently.
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Not "pool cues"..The "pool cues", not snooker, like the one you posted that are on their site are cheap and have no reviews as you stated.. Waste of time..
 
hang-the-9 said:
Is this an asian made import? They tend to put a lot of those inlays in but overall the quality in most is not good at all.
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It looks very similar to cues made in the Phillippines. It does not appear to be good quality to me. The maple does not look good quality to me, and the inlays look cheap.
 
Straightpool_99 said:
That looks like a Filipino import cue to me. I've owned several, almost exactly like the pictured ones. Some of them hit great, others are complete crap. Usually they are thicker at the joint than other cues, and it's also typical for them not to have straight joint pins, so that only the original shafts are straight. Aftermarket shafts will lead to the cue rolling crooked. If the pictured cue is not made in the Filipines, they have certainly copied the Filipino style down to the last detail...I find that hard to believe. The shape of the inlays and inlay materials are a dead giveaway. Traditionally they come with linen wraps, it's rare to see them with Leather, especially good quality leather. The leather they use tend to be very thick and stiff. I bought a Flipino cue for 80 dollars, which was one of the best cues I've ever owned. I've also bought 3 others that were average and one that was crap and had to be discarded. None of them were straight with aftermarket shafts. I figure they are worth about 100 dollars if they are decent. I live in a climate with average humidity. If you live in a very dry area, you can expect them to warp. They are not good with climate control and wood aging down there and as you probably know, it's very humid there.

That 80 dollar cue I bought, I lent it to one of my countrys top 3 players and he nagged me for months to sell it to him for 500 dollars. When you consider the fact that it was butt ugly, it's telling of the kind of hit it had. It was stolen years ago.

Regarding European cues, there are some top notch German cuemakers, although those cues will never, ever be cheap. There are several good English snooker cue makers, some of them make cues for pool, but those are typically not so good.

The best European cues come from Germany (Vollmer, Arthur). My friend was quoted 5k Euros for a fancy Vollmer years ago, I've no idea what it would cost now.
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Those super cheap Phillippine made cues hit really nice, surprisingly . I tried out one that retailed for like $50, and loved the way it hit. It was not for sale though, or I would have purchased it.
 
Chopdoc said:
I was going to let this thread go but Skins jumped in so what the heck...

I have not read everything here, just skimmed.

The cue pictured looks like a $100-$150 PI cue. And I only push it to $150 because there are two shafts. If it isn't a PI import then the makers did everything he could to make it look like one. Which would be really odd.



This whole thread seems like a disjointed conversation actually.




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Yeah, I was thinking the quality looked really cheap too (looks very similar to many that I have seen from the Phillippines) , and not worth more then a $100. I do not know why any good cue maker would build a good quality cue that looked like that. The maple in it just looks very poor quality to me. I do not know though.
 
Hollismason said:
Those are all still to be taken into account but even still it's cheaper right now to order from Europe so it still saves you money regardless.
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Go ahead and get one. Give us a review after playing it for about 6 months. Folks on here are always buying, selling, trading, and trying different cues. Looking forward to hear about Craftsman Cues!
 
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Hollismason said:
Good eye!


2:50 PM (1 hour ago)

to me

The cue was made in the Phillipines a few years ago.
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Was pretty easy to tell if you see other examples from there, they like to inlay the hell of our their cues in their lower end stuff.

https://plus.google.com/photos/photo/108309299550056689689/6177464450026944402?icm=false

The good makers just use good wood and construction that lives though temperature changes. On the other hand, their prices are not much better than European or US makers. Al Bautista from BlackPearl cues for example, a no points burl cue is $400.
 
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