My very best playing cues;
What where your very best playing cues?
My best playing cues"
1- Mike Bender 95 - the cue plays so well I gave the cue a nick name, I call my Bender "The Freak". I never gave a cue a name before. Thats how well my Mike Bender plays. The cue feels natural in my hands, perfect balance and weight, shoots straight and the cue ball goes where it's supposed to go. The cue plays effordlessly.15oz butt, 4.1 and 4.2oz shafts,,The Best. Excellent playing cue. Excellent cue maker. Serious cue for the serious player. IF your a player and need a cue you can put a Mike Bender cue on your short list.
2 - I owned (still own 1) 2 orig Bob Runde Schon's from the mid 80s. Both of those orig 80s Schons played solid just as well as my Bender... BUT than again Gus made the Blanks for those old orig mid 80 Schons. If you ever take notice, if it wasn't for having a different butt cap, there is NO DIFFERENCE in appearence between a plain 4pt/4veneer soild ebony butt sleeve old orig mid 80s Schon or a same era 4pt/4veneer solid ebony butt sleeve Gus Szamboti. Gus was supplying Bob with cue parts. Gus machined every part that went into his cues. Gus was also supplying James Ingram with the Blanks too, also supplying Palmer and George Balabuska with blanks along with Burton Spain. Little TRUE FACTs of cue history for those who did not know??? You wanna know why those old Schons played so solid??? Those old unstained forearms with the wooded dash rings Schons from the mid 80s are actually no different than a Gus Szamboti cue. Bob put the parts together and did his own inlaid work on the higher end models. Gus made the blanks and ? other parts?????? Ask Barry.. let Barry tell yea..
3- I owned a later 80s full splice Schon after Gus passed away and after Bob started staining the maple forearms that also played just as well as the others. Those were my 4 very best playing cues. I have owned a Balabuska that I sold in 1977 for 175 bucks and a beautful loaded up higher end Gus Szamboti that i sold for 800 in 87 because as beautful as that Boti was it had a backward balance and was too heavy at 20+oz's. I owned a gorgeous Joey Gold Cognoscenti that i sold in 95 for 1800 that played well but was a little bit too whippy playing similar to a Meucci type hit.
Mike Cernero
What where your very best playing cues?
My best playing cues"
1- Mike Bender 95 - the cue plays so well I gave the cue a nick name, I call my Bender "The Freak". I never gave a cue a name before. Thats how well my Mike Bender plays. The cue feels natural in my hands, perfect balance and weight, shoots straight and the cue ball goes where it's supposed to go. The cue plays effordlessly.15oz butt, 4.1 and 4.2oz shafts,,The Best. Excellent playing cue. Excellent cue maker. Serious cue for the serious player. IF your a player and need a cue you can put a Mike Bender cue on your short list.
2 - I owned (still own 1) 2 orig Bob Runde Schon's from the mid 80s. Both of those orig 80s Schons played solid just as well as my Bender... BUT than again Gus made the Blanks for those old orig mid 80 Schons. If you ever take notice, if it wasn't for having a different butt cap, there is NO DIFFERENCE in appearence between a plain 4pt/4veneer soild ebony butt sleeve old orig mid 80s Schon or a same era 4pt/4veneer solid ebony butt sleeve Gus Szamboti. Gus was supplying Bob with cue parts. Gus machined every part that went into his cues. Gus was also supplying James Ingram with the Blanks too, also supplying Palmer and George Balabuska with blanks along with Burton Spain. Little TRUE FACTs of cue history for those who did not know??? You wanna know why those old Schons played so solid??? Those old unstained forearms with the wooded dash rings Schons from the mid 80s are actually no different than a Gus Szamboti cue. Bob put the parts together and did his own inlaid work on the higher end models. Gus made the blanks and ? other parts?????? Ask Barry.. let Barry tell yea..
3- I owned a later 80s full splice Schon after Gus passed away and after Bob started staining the maple forearms that also played just as well as the others. Those were my 4 very best playing cues. I have owned a Balabuska that I sold in 1977 for 175 bucks and a beautful loaded up higher end Gus Szamboti that i sold for 800 in 87 because as beautful as that Boti was it had a backward balance and was too heavy at 20+oz's. I owned a gorgeous Joey Gold Cognoscenti that i sold in 95 for 1800 that played well but was a little bit too whippy playing similar to a Meucci type hit.
Mike Cernero
