Maguire changed his cue.

[Pacino55]

Stephen Maguire has been using a new cue since the world cup in Wuxi or maybe ealier, it is a 3/4 ash cue with plain ebony butt which looks as similar as Steve Davis's old one. I'm just wondering a professional rarely does this，change a different sort of wood? We know that Higgins once used a maximus maple cue in 2013 Shanghai masters and it never appeared in the following events. It's just different kind of raction when hitting the ball using a maple one comparing an ash one and vice versa.This made me recall that i once asked Stephen Hendry few years ago ,he told me both of maple and ash are easy to control.But obviously he fancy a maple one all through his career. Since maguire changed his cue, the only person who's using a maple cue is Marco Fu in the top 16.

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"Stephen Maguire now using an ash Exquisite Greenplate Cue with joint through the splices.
Much like Steve Davis style cue."

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[Master Blaster]

"Stephen Maguire now using an ash Exquisite Greenplate Cue with joint through the splices.
Much like Steve Davis style cue."

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Are these cues handmade in Scotland from scratch, shaft and all?

[imac13]

From what i have been told 100% handmade, havent played with one, but have seen a few, very nice cues.

[Neil Taperell]

Always wondered why he never came back on here , especially as this place was used as a marketing tool to set him up .

Doesn't sell direct to the public and what i didn't like was that a member on here wanted him to carry out some adjustments to
one of his cues and he wouldn't do it !

Seems to have done alright for himself , as all the Scottish Pro's have jumped on his band wagon .

[piper74]

From what i have been told 100% handmade, havent played with one, but have seen a few, very nice cues.

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[piper74]

Always wondered why he never came back on here , especially as this place was used as a marketing tool to set him up .

Doesn't sell direct to the public and what i didn't like was that a member on here wanted him to carry out some adjustments to
one of his cues and he wouldn't do it !

Seems to have done alright for himself , as all the Scottish Pro's have jumped on his band wagon .

Why wouldn't he do it? Any reasons given?

[Neil Taperell]

Can't remember , can't recall who the member was either

[jono*]

He went down the Robert Osborne route and is only selling to dealers in Asia. But irritating imo that neither are willing to take orders for new cues.

[piper74]

He went down the Robert Osborne route and is only selling to dealers in Asia. But irritating imo that neither are willing to take orders for new cues.

i can understand this, however irritating that is.

But to refuse adjustments? this is puzzling.

[Raldon]

Can't remember , can't recall who the member was either

raymo147

I had a short chat with him, but thats 2 years ago

[mrbluejay]

Always wondered why he never came back on here , especially as this place was used as a marketing tool to set him up .

Doesn't sell direct to the public and what i didn't like was that a member on here wanted him to carry out some adjustments to
one of his cues and he wouldn't do it !

Seems to have done alright for himself , as all the Scottish Pro's have jumped on his band wagon .

Didn't he disappear off the forum after SHAFTGATE ?

[billabong]

Didn't he disappear off the forum after SHAFTGATE ?

I do believe it was around that time, although I also believe it was cue-gate. .

[Neil Taperell]

Thai Gate

[eaoin11]

Yep, collectively this forum has a very short memory. And the fact that he disappeared after shaftgate/thaigate or IMPORTEDCUEGATE probably answers the other questions asked in this thread. His trade mark !!!! was a stroke of genius IMO but I find it strange that another member of similar name, Raymon, feels the need to do the same.