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Happy new year to all of you.
Two days before Christmas I received my Aurora cue from poolqjunkie and I am happy to share my experience here with you.
When the cue arrived and I unpacked it I became a bit unsure as the cue is much softer in spring than what I am used to. It is difficult to explain. The cue is not whippy. To my experience whippiness is more in the top end of a cue. This cue is not soft or whippy, it is more that the frequency and the damping of the spring is lower, to put it like an engineer.
And Airin told me in advance that the cue is a bit butt weighted. My playing cue is quite stiff and forward balanced so I really was not sure if I could handle this beauty.
But all the concerns vanished after a few shots.
I had not many cues in my hands with such a good feedback. I can feel exactly the power of the impact to the cue ball. After playing some balls it was easy to put the right amount of side and power to the cue ball.
Usually I am quite delicate concerning the balance point but I had a natural and good feeling while handling the cue. I totally forgot after some minutes that it is my first go with this cue.
Well, and I destroyed my Snooker mate 3:0 that afternoon...
If this is the playability standard of Aurora cues I can absolutely recommend it.
Now to the marks for artistic impression
:
Poolqjunkie (the man behind Aurora) send me some pics in advance and I immediately fell in love with this unusual tulipwood. It has a wonderful nice brown color and really nice grain.
The piece of ash he chose is a cracker. 5 chevrons on the top, well aligned. One long, dark arrow on the back, almost plain belly.
The jet black ebony splices are very well made and on a high level.
The thick maple veneers show some grain and I really like that. Honey colored and well matching to the tulipwood.
And that tulipwood is soooo beautiful. The left and right splice is a few millimeters longer that top and bottom splice but I really don't care. Left and right is on the exact same level and also top and bottom.
The only point is that I had to remove the varnish from the butt. But that is my personal thing as my hands start to sweat on varnished cues and I have the feeling of not having the perfect connection to the cue if it is varnished (sounds somewhat esoteric when written...
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To sum it up Airin has not to hide behind the other very good cue makers out there. If the cue would have been delivered from Dave Coutts, Tony Glover or Robin Cook I would have been happy with the quality as well.
Thank you, my friend for making me this well playing beauty and for opening up my mind for a complete different characteristic of cue than I had before.
Two days before Christmas I received my Aurora cue from poolqjunkie and I am happy to share my experience here with you.
When the cue arrived and I unpacked it I became a bit unsure as the cue is much softer in spring than what I am used to. It is difficult to explain. The cue is not whippy. To my experience whippiness is more in the top end of a cue. This cue is not soft or whippy, it is more that the frequency and the damping of the spring is lower, to put it like an engineer.
And Airin told me in advance that the cue is a bit butt weighted. My playing cue is quite stiff and forward balanced so I really was not sure if I could handle this beauty.
But all the concerns vanished after a few shots.
I had not many cues in my hands with such a good feedback. I can feel exactly the power of the impact to the cue ball. After playing some balls it was easy to put the right amount of side and power to the cue ball.
Usually I am quite delicate concerning the balance point but I had a natural and good feeling while handling the cue. I totally forgot after some minutes that it is my first go with this cue.
Well, and I destroyed my Snooker mate 3:0 that afternoon...
If this is the playability standard of Aurora cues I can absolutely recommend it.
Now to the marks for artistic impression
:Poolqjunkie (the man behind Aurora) send me some pics in advance and I immediately fell in love with this unusual tulipwood. It has a wonderful nice brown color and really nice grain.
The piece of ash he chose is a cracker. 5 chevrons on the top, well aligned. One long, dark arrow on the back, almost plain belly.
The jet black ebony splices are very well made and on a high level.
The thick maple veneers show some grain and I really like that. Honey colored and well matching to the tulipwood.
And that tulipwood is soooo beautiful. The left and right splice is a few millimeters longer that top and bottom splice but I really don't care. Left and right is on the exact same level and also top and bottom.
The only point is that I had to remove the varnish from the butt. But that is my personal thing as my hands start to sweat on varnished cues and I have the feeling of not having the perfect connection to the cue if it is varnished (sounds somewhat esoteric when written...
)To sum it up Airin has not to hide behind the other very good cue makers out there. If the cue would have been delivered from Dave Coutts, Tony Glover or Robin Cook I would have been happy with the quality as well.
Thank you, my friend for making me this well playing beauty and for opening up my mind for a complete different characteristic of cue than I had before.
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