I have never owned a really bad cue.
I have shot balls with quite a few, but they weren’t mine.
Of all the cues I have owned, I would have to say my old Cuetec that I got for free may be the “worst”, but even it isn’t terrible.
I think the first ebony 4-point cue that Richard Black made for me in 1978 may have been my best playing cue. However, that is subjective because I was playing the best pool of my life at that time while in the Philippines.
All of the cues that I have are good-playing cues. Some are productions and some are custom. Some are wood and others are carbon fiber.
I lived in Taiwan when they first started exporting all those cheap cues to the US. I could have bought them for next to nothing, but I wouldn’t have taken one even if it were for free.
My friend exported thousands of them to the US, where they were sold in Sears, JC Penney’s, etc.
I have quite a few cues in the closet (A.E Schmidt, Murray Tucker, Mike Pancerny, Mike Gulyassy, John Chaplin - Coos Cues, McDermott, Adam Japan, Players, Cuetec, and several more), but the cues I have carried with me to the pool halls on my last few times are my Becue and one of my Jackpots. Of those two, I have played with the Jackpot almost exclusively in the last half-dozen trips. That cue will play along with the best of cues. It is a fun little cue to play with...point and shoot.