Hi all,
New here and my first post! I did a search but couldn't find anything so appologies if I'm just being a forum noob.
I've been looking at buying a new cue. I currently use a 'Champion JX' which I bought from my local snooker hall years ago and I'm better now than I was then (quite considerably). At the time I thought it was awesome, Rosewood butt, 3/4 split however after doing some google searches the company that made it has either gone bust or was just not very good in the first place since they appear to have absolutely no internet presence whatsoever! (I suspect the latter! ).
I was planning to get a peradon cue after using a friend of mine's peradon pool cue. Reading a post on here a week ago I saw someone say that the only way to guarantee that you get hand made cue from them is to order one through Peradon's Cue Wizard.
I'm a big fan of simplistic design and I really like the idea of just a one piece solid ash cue with no additional butt wood spliced in, and just a single large decorative splice of Thuya Burr on the front with a dark blue vaneer seperating the two.
So I suppose my questions are threefold. Firstly will not having a rosewood/ebony butt on the cue affect its playability?
Seconly, are these CueWizard cues good? The cue I would like will cost £135, or with a 6" mini-extension £187 (they adapt the cue to take the extension which is, I assume, why a 6" extension costs £52 extra!).
Third, does anyone know whether they come with that horrible shiny sticky laquer/varnish on them that you get with some cues? My housemate's pool cue has quite a smooth 'action' and almost a matt finish (not sure how to describe it).
I'd love to get something like a John Parris classic but to be honest, I don't have the money for one at the moment, and I don't think I play well enough to warrant having a John Parris (perhaps when my 50 breaks turn into 90 breaks!).
Thank you for any help I get,
Snow
New here and my first post! I did a search but couldn't find anything so appologies if I'm just being a forum noob.
I've been looking at buying a new cue. I currently use a 'Champion JX' which I bought from my local snooker hall years ago and I'm better now than I was then (quite considerably). At the time I thought it was awesome, Rosewood butt, 3/4 split however after doing some google searches the company that made it has either gone bust or was just not very good in the first place since they appear to have absolutely no internet presence whatsoever! (I suspect the latter! ).
I was planning to get a peradon cue after using a friend of mine's peradon pool cue. Reading a post on here a week ago I saw someone say that the only way to guarantee that you get hand made cue from them is to order one through Peradon's Cue Wizard.
I'm a big fan of simplistic design and I really like the idea of just a one piece solid ash cue with no additional butt wood spliced in, and just a single large decorative splice of Thuya Burr on the front with a dark blue vaneer seperating the two.
So I suppose my questions are threefold. Firstly will not having a rosewood/ebony butt on the cue affect its playability?
Seconly, are these CueWizard cues good? The cue I would like will cost £135, or with a 6" mini-extension £187 (they adapt the cue to take the extension which is, I assume, why a 6" extension costs £52 extra!).
Third, does anyone know whether they come with that horrible shiny sticky laquer/varnish on them that you get with some cues? My housemate's pool cue has quite a smooth 'action' and almost a matt finish (not sure how to describe it).
I'd love to get something like a John Parris classic but to be honest, I don't have the money for one at the moment, and I don't think I play well enough to warrant having a John Parris (perhaps when my 50 breaks turn into 90 breaks!).
Thank you for any help I get,
Snow
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