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Custom and High End Cues on the Decline?

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HawaiianEye said:
I have hit with a lot of renown cue makers' high-dollar custom cues that sold for thousands of dollars and many of them didn't play and feel the way I like. Southwest is a name that comes to mind. I have never tried a Southwest that I thought suited me better that one of my own cues.

I buy cues to play with and every cue and shaft has its own unique qualities and none of them play exactly alike, even the same models with the same specs.

The same thing goes with production cues.

As for most of the cues that I currently own, I had the chance to play with them before I bought them, so I knew I what I was getting.

I don't buy cues for looks, so fancy and ornate cues don't excite me. They look pretty and may be well-made, but they look more like something to hang on the wall rather than being a tool to use.

I am looking for a "particular" hit and feel that "resonates" with me and I immediately know if I am going to like a cue after just playing with it for a short while.
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Couldn't agree with you more, I didn't grow up playing pool, for many reasons I got into it much later but I definitely have the bug now, hit and feel to the person that owns the cue is the most important thing, if your cue makes you feel comfortable I believe makes it easier to improve, if that's your goal, that is mine, I'll probably never play at a pro level but if I work at it I'll get closer than if I didn't try to improve.
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Bergman will play WNT events in 2026

Scratch85
tableroll said:
He hates airplanes so this will be a challenge.
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Do you know Bergman? Is it true he hates airplanes? I’ve also heard he is germaphobic. I doubt that is true but I don’t know him personally so, who knows? I do play just outside his home area and occasionally play people who do know him. I’ve never heard anyone who knows him to say he won’t travel, for the above reasons. Even at 38, I hope he makes a go of it.


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What's your favorite pool memory from 2025?

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to toot my own horn. many decades back a friend from the pool room who lived near me did me a couple favors that really helped me out and helped me go on from there.

i was bored and researched him. thought he was probably gone by now but found out he wasn't doing well and was in not good financial straights.
i always somehow wanted to return a favor to him but haven't seen him in well over 50 years. so this year i got his address and stuffed an envelop full with c notes and sent it to him registered mail. anonymously.
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Lister Cues

Bamacues
I have a Lister cue from a Rounceville blank...

Bill built this for me a couple years back for my personal collection... now I am downsizing.

It has only been test hit...
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Predator history?

HawaiianEye
iusedtoberich said:
That's one I never got a chance to try. I still have my BK-1 which has a slightly fatter shaft than the 314-1 of the day.
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I bought a 314-2 FAT blank when I had Mike Pancerny convert an old Titlist one-piece cue for me.

He did a fantasic job of matching it to the cue.

He makes one of the best piloted compression joints you will ever find.

I would buy another FAT blank if I could find one.

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Thoughts ... Russian Kenny is out of prision

SUPERSTAR
jasonlaus said:
With that, wasn't it Jeanette Lee who told the guy that bought 100% of her that she would dump if they didnt let her buy half(and this isnt before the draw, it's when she was gonna cash) .

What a POS move that is, and yet all the drooling idiots on here worship her
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I think I remember this thread.
If I'm not mistaken, that's where I first went on my rant about the calcutta 10%.
Didn't she leave or something cause she forgot her cue or whatever? Or some other circumstances around her doing whatever controversial thing? Or am I mixing 2 threads up?

I mean why didn't she take half of herself in the first place would be my question.
And at the same time, I don't feel players have ANY obligation to appease someone who bought them.
That's a YOU problem.

One would think that they would respectfully toss her some jelly if she won, but they aren't obligated to if she didn't take half herself in the first place.

But that goes to my point.
Calcuttas introduce complications into a tournament where they didn't exist, before the calcutta entered the picture.
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Predator history?

iusedtoberich
carl.j said:
Piping in here. Does anyone know which series/models were the first Predator cues to use the Uni-Loc joint?
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They switched from 5/16-14 to Uni-Loc about 2001 or 2002. They've been that way since except for some special editions with Radial pins. The Predator Group bought the Uni-Loc company (makers of both the quick release Uni-Loc, and the Radial pin), sometime around there.
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Solid vs layered tips

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measureman said:
I know this subject has been beat to death but here is my personal take on it.
I have been using solid tips for many years.
Recently I decided to give a layered tip a try.
I had an Everest installed and can not tell the difference from a solid tip.
The layered tip was $40 installed vs a solid tip at $23 installed.
I'm not going to do this again.
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In my experience with layered tips is as they age the glue that holds the layers starts to cause glazing, I find that all leather tips get harder over time as well, I've been using Bulletproof Recoil tips since March of last year, it's a synthetic tip so the consistency from tip to tip is unreal, I'm using the Hard tip, there is another guy who went to the Med tip and said it played like a Med hard, my guess is you will start seeing changes after playing the new tip after a short while.
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