market research

[MikeWooldridge]

simple question:

cost is irrelevant. what cue would you buy next?

please state:

1) 1pc, butt join, centre join
2) ash or maple
3) plain ebony butt or additional splices (please specify)
4) length
5) tip size
6) weight
7) butt size

thank you

[MattCash]

1) 1pc
2) ash
3) plain ebony butt
4) 57"
5) 9.4mm
6) 18.5 Oz
7) 29mm

[Snookered]

my choice:


1) 1 piece
2) maple
3) Ebony butt with 4 secondary olivewood splice with white & blue venneers
4) 57"
5) 9.4mm tip size
6) 17-17.5oz
7) 29mm butt size

[MikeWooldridge]

If you are asking about the maker as well

i wasnt

purely the cue and specs i'm curious about...

[RGCirencester]

1) 1 piece jointed above the splices
2) ash
3) Cocobolo butt, with maple, ebony, maple veneer, then cocobolo front splice.
With cocobolo mini butt
4) 58.5"
5) 10mm
6) 16 oz
7) 29mm

Maker: Robin Cook, personal preference not based on experience, just like the look of his cues


EDIT: Yes Mike I know you don't want to know the maker but I feel like telling you so there

[MikeWooldridge]

Maker: Robin Cook, personal preference not based on experience, just like the look of his cues

PLEASE! i'm not interested in who you like to brown nose

cue and specs ONLY.

PLEASE...

[MikeWooldridge]

lol snookerloopy_08, you edited!

[MattCash]

lol snookerloopy_08, you edited!

I aim to please

[MikeWooldridge]

lol. remind me to give you the discount i had in mind for rg

[huy]

1) 1pc
2) ash
3) plain ebony butt
4) 57"
5) 9.5mm
6) 18.2 Oz
7) 29.5mm

[gettingbetter]

1) 1pc, butt join, centre join: Butt join
2) ash or maple: Ash
3) plain ebony butt or additional splices (please specify): Ebony, with maple veneers looking like arrows, Mastercraft Nemesis like
4) length: 59-59.5
5) tip size: 9.5mm
6) weight: 18 oz
7) butt size: 29.5

[DandyA]

good question Mike ... and I mean that honestly - it's nice to see you caring ...

at the moment, I don't intend to buy a new cue ... I have my £20 Cannon Scorpion for UK 8ball and my WPT "Welsh Dragon" for snooker and they do me fine for my very limited ability ...

I do hanker after one of your Shark series and I haven't ruled it out (birthdays and Xmas happen twice a year) but, if you don't mind, I'll tell you why I probably chose the WPT over the Shark ...

All from memory and I know figures are approximate (and you may have changed the spec) ...

Shark spec'd at 58", WD at 57.5" ... only a small difference and I'm 6' 1" but nevertheless 57.5" seemed better to me ...

Shark spec'd at 10mm tip, WD at 9.75mm - sounded better to me although actually the ferrule of the WD is 10.10mm as measured on a micrometer - which I'm happy with although I wouldn't mind a smidgeon less ...

Now to the important stuff ... both offered "phut" connectors, probably at the time you and WPT were both using the same kind of "phuts" although I did read a few months ago you were now fitting your own design of newly improved "phuts" ...

So what I think I'm saying is ...

57.5"
9.75mm
bigger phut

Can't fault the look of the Shark series though ... mean and lean ...

[bongo]

1) Butt join
2) Ash
3) Additional splices, possibly snakewood.
4) Length - 58"
5) Tip size - 9.8 - 9.9
6) Weight - 18oz ish
7) Butt size - 29mm ish

[trigger666]

1 peice
ash
ebony butt, four cocobolo splice with thick maple veneers
57.75
18oz
9.7mm
29.5 butt

[ChatLag]

For me, just look in your order book...

1) 1pc, what else?
2) dark matured top grade ash,
with grain not artifically darkened,
natural to a bit thinner taper
3) extra long jet black plain ebony butt,
maybe just a single facing splice of an unusual wood,
maybe with a thin veneer
4) 57"
5) 9.5 mm
6) 17 - 18 oz
7) 29.5 mm