Elite heavy break cue1/7/2024 ![]() I was devastated but also morbidly fascinated by this for some reason. The cue I made hit great, but just didn't have the same feel as the pawn shop cue. I also used a much higher grade of domestic phenolic for the ferrule/tip. The only changes I made were I used Uniloc quick release pins instead of the cheap potmetal import pins that came in the cue. I copy this cue down to the thousandth of an inch. I set out to re-create this cue, and I even went so far as to select maple blanks that had similar growth ring counts, sugar content, and other visible features I could compare and match to the best of my abilities. ![]() So I take the cue back to my cue shop and do a full blueprint documentation of this $10.00 pawn shop cue to try to figure out why it worked so well. It jumped like Michael Jordan and could do anything you needed it to do. Absolutely crushed the cueball and made these phenomenal breaks with the sound of hitting a golf ball with an aluminum baseball bat. Had a shitty grade of chinese phenolic for the tip that was all porous and full of chalk dust and air holes. Shaft was nearly conical and made from a C-grade blank with serious runoff and a little warpage. It was all maple, no collars, it had a cheap import quick release garbage pin. Years ago a buddy showed up with a pawn shop Players jump/break cue. One of the things you'll have a very hard time getting custom cuemakers to admit is that sometimes there are just some unexplainable, unmeasurable qualities about certain cues that make them perform exceptionally well. Is there an older break cue that anyone is aware of with this lettering? I am ok with it being a mystery, but damn, it was incredible to play with a break cue that I legitimately thought gave me an unfair advantage. I am a very average/below average breaker, but I broke 4 times and each time I potted 3,4,4, and 3 with the 9 ball (that actually gave me enough to win the match). When I broke with this thing I felt like I was cheating. The guy mentioned that he found it at a pawn shop and dropped 60 bucks on it, but has been offered 2 grand for it as recently as last month, when at a tournament in Vegas, and he too for years has been trying to figure it out, but refuses to sell, because he has never found anything close to replacing it. ![]() I held this thing, and the wood felt so different, smooth, but extremely hard. It just looked like an absolute basic bar cue, the only lettering on it is a thin gold capital "S" that literally just looks like it is a letter "S" printed on a cue. Long story short, I recently joined an APA league, and a player let me use their break cue with a letter S, any ideas. ![]()
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