Why put a rose on a cue?

[staticfire98]

With Kingpin 2 being announced and the return of the rose encased bowling ball, it made me wonder about the significance. At least McDermott and Meucci have rose themed cues. Why put a rose on a cue or in a bowling ball?

 

[middleofnowhere]

With Kingpin 2 being announced and the return of the rose encased bowling ball, it made me wonder about the significance. At least McDermott and Meucci have rose themed cues. Why put a rose on a cue or in a bowling ball?

Why not?

 

[CocoboloCowboy]

Meucci did it.

 

[gregcantrall]

Admire the beauty of the rose and be aware of the pain that the thorns can inflict.

 

[Rusty in Montana]

Why not a rose or two ??? In all honesty I've got some highly colored elk ivories that I think would look cool in or on the butt of a pool cue for that matter .

 

[skor]

My guess is that it’s rooted in the English Rose

 

[curlyscues]

ask Lori John. the meucci rose was part of her line of meucci.

 

[jeephawk]

Wars have been fought over them!

 

[Rusty in Montana]

Some how that wouldn't surprise me at all .

 

[middleofnowhere]

Meucci did it.

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It was not very popular. I sold a lot of meucci cues but don't ever remember selling one of the rose cues. I think the rose was too big. People tend to like things that are a bit more subtle.

Meucci back in the day had a number of cues where you wondered who the heck designed them.

 

[Rusty in Montana]

It was not very popular. I sold a lot of meucci cues but don't ever remember selling one of the rose cues. I think the rose was too big. People tend to like things that are a bit more subtle.

Meucci back in the day had a number of cues where you wondered who the heck designed them.

I've never sold Meucci cues , however I do own one but its a modest looking cue by anyone's standard .
I totally agree with you one wondering who designed some of their cues !

 

[sciarco]

Why not women like a dozen roses.

 

[xX-Wizard-Xx]

Why not women like a dozen roses.

they dont really ... they just like the idea that some dope wasted money on them ... makes them feel important

 

[skogstokig]

It was not very popular. I sold a lot of meucci cues but don't ever remember selling one of the rose cues. I think the rose was too big. People tend to like things that are a bit more subtle.

Meucci back in the day had a number of cues where you wondered who the heck designed them.

their weirdest stuff still look better than any viking cue

i think the rose one is ok. not my cup but it's not awful to look at

 

[sciarco]

Why don't you ask them and find out .

 

[middleofnowhere]

their weirdest stuff still look better than any viking cue

i think the rose one is ok. not my cup but it's not awful to look at

I almost mentioned viking in my post. They loved plastic rings and had some cues with so many inlays it made you dizzy. They were maybe the last holdout making a 57 inch cue standard and fat butts.

 

[JPB2]

It was not very popular. I sold a lot of meucci cues but don't ever remember selling one of the rose cues. I think the rose was too big. People tend to like things that are a bit more subtle.

Meucci back in the day had a number of cues where you wondered who the heck designed them.

You’re never going to like all the designs, I personally prefer Meucci designs on average compared to some others. The recent rose cue in the McDermott 50 yr anniversary line was a pretty good one. I never loved the original D series rose cue, but some loved them. Other D series cues looked great to me though. Anyway, IMO McDermott botched the 50 yr line. So many great C and D series cues and to me they just blew it with most of these new ones. I was waiting for a great D series design other than the rose and needless to say they didn’t do one.

Also, IMO, cue companies should hire me as a consultant to help them out.

I ordered one from a good American company with a few custom requests. Plain cue but I wanted a specific wrap and rings from a different model. With the stain color, rings, and wrap it looks good. I ordered it through a dealer and they allegedly said something like, yeah that combination works…. Yes, you should do that and sell them.

 

[Kim Bye]

Because you can is the short answer. Am I a fan? Not at all..

 

[middleofnowhere]

You’re never going to like all the designs, I personally prefer Meucci designs on average compared to some others. The recent rose cue in the McDermott 50 yr anniversary line was a pretty good one. I never loved the original D series rose cue, but some loved them. Other D series cues looked great to me though. Anyway, IMO McDermott botched the 50 yr line. So many great C and D series cues and to me they just blew it with most of these new ones. I was waiting for a great D series design other than the rose and needless to say they didn’t do one.

Also, IMO, cue companies should hire me as a consultant to help them out.

I ordered one from a good American company with a few custom requests. Plain cue but I wanted a specific wrap and rings from a different model. With the stain color, rings, and wrap it looks good. I ordered it through a dealer and they allegedly said something like, yeah that combination works…. Yes, you should do that and sell them.

McDermott did a weird thing way back. They had a cue in their line that was a C6. It was a simple four-point cue with veneers that look just like Balabushka or Joss or any of the standard 4 point cues. For some inexplicable reason they took it out of their line. I was a McDermott dealer at that time, it was my best selling cue.