Ultimate Cue in my Dreams

[ebonynivory]

Well I have spent thousands on cues down the years so have had many nice cues but the Ultimate cue for me would be getting the right shaft, very stiff but with enough give to make it lively. I know it exists or is out there, I've just yet to find it, well I should say I think I owned it but regretably sold it!

which cue did you sell Cueman?

[buddfridgeman]

i have had some great cues over the years , but as far as playing with my new jp paragon is top.

[Deepscrew]

The mastercraft i had custom made was pretty much my dream cue for looks.

[cueman]

which cue did you sell Cueman?

It was a Craftsman that I bought from the shop when I went up about 7-8 years ago. Was a 1 piece with 4 lower snakewood splices over sycamore veneers. It was such a nice responsive cue yet stiff, played really well with it. THen I sent it back to Craftsman to get an end joint fitted so to use extensions, cue never felt the same again after that, made a funny sound on every shot and was off putting. I should have persevered with it but eventually went back to my old cue and sold it on Ebay about a month later.

[Particle Physics]

I agree cueman, sticking a brass socket in a cue is retrograde. Unfortunately, most cues come with them inbuilt nowadays. If you bought a cue, you wouldn't stick a one ounce brass weight on the end of it, but that's exactly what a lot of cuemakers are doing. It's not going to help the balance of the cue, or feel, with a shock absorbing heavy density object under the handle. Thud.

[buddfridgeman]

I am not convinced about sd joints rather just screw on the extension like m. stevens does ..anyway where do you put you badge ?

[safe t boy]

My cue if money was no object would be a Wooldridge Legend 3/4 jointed (low join, like a 1pc thats been cut and joined below the splices) with black F1 join and black SD join. I would have Ash for the shaft and Ebony for the butt with single front splice of ebony over a medium thickness maple veneer. 9mm tip, 57" long, 17" balance and 17oz weight (same specs as current cue).

[narl]

I am not convinced about sd joints rather just screw on the extension like m. stevens does ..anyway where do you put you badge ?

They can do a badge on a round butt cue in the normal place, they just round it off more to match the shape of the butt. Ive seen a few parris cues with a round butt and normal badge placement, yours is the first ive seen with the badge on the bottom of the butt.

[buddfridgeman]

yeah I have had one like that but I really like the plain ebony butt so john said he would fit it here for me when I asked. No regrets it looks great plays very well and I can screw on the extension for longer shots.win win.

[Particle Physics]

I began thinking about mother of pearl inlays, a bit American if you feel it. And then I thought, why not have a mother of pearl veneer. Then I thought, how about mother of pearl splices from the biggest shells one could find. It would be quite heavy (no weight needed) and I imagine, extremely expensive. It would also be very fragile. But it would look like no other cue ever made before.