Who makes the best pool sticks? Best for the buck.?

Question

Who makes the best pool sticks? Best for the buck.?

Answer 1

Viking Pool Cues are the best.

Answer 2

Predator Cues are the best production cues made by far. The reason is the technological development that went into reducing ball deflection that is caused by every wooden shaft natural tendency to bend in a certain direction of the original tree grain on impact with a cue ball. This means that depending on the way you pick up a cue you can get a different level of deflection in a different direction every time you shoot. Originally Predator developed a robot to research this effect by repeating exactly the same hit, time after time and monitoring changes and they invented solutions to the problem. They came up with the cue shaft design that utilizes 8 pieces of wood full length of the shaft in a pie shape, turned on a lathe in perfect balance that forces the natural wood of the shaft to pull equally in all eight directions which reduces unwanted and uncontrollable ball deflection. I have had many other cues and now I will never shoot a tourney with anything but Predator Cues. However, while Predator Cues are an amazing asset they are pricey. My point is that there is technology that makes the price worth it.

Today, even at half the price of Predator, the best Bang for the Buck is still a cue from the Predator technology group. Late in 2007 Predator open a subsidiary company and launched another entire line of cues called Poison. With these cues Predator has brought out their second innovation at deflection reduction in the use of a double density hollow core shaft insert that may not be as good as a Predator in direct comparison on the robot-testing but it leaves all other cues behind in performance. The feel of the demonstrator I tried has a very similar hit to the Predator so the Poison Cues hit with a similar accuracy to the Predator but will out shoot any other production cue. I have the catalog here and the designs have a new and edgy look that is very appealing. With cue styles named like Strychnine, Anthrax, Arsenic, and Cyanide these cues have a humourous attitude to killing the competition. This is my kind of Cue!  Poison Cues are specifically priced very competitively head to head against all the standard quality cues out there.  

So I think Poison Cues are the answer to your query of what is the best cue for the buck. Poison is not only the latest entry into the game but comes with a very respectable family history for again providing an innovative advanced quality that you can feel and see in results more than just pretty looks and they do it at a very reasonable street price too.

Good Shooting

Answer 3

Blah, predator cues.  They aren't bad but you can wast some pretty good money on a name.  There are many good cue makers out there.  Stay away from factory assembly line cues if you are looking to get a nice custom.  I have been shooting pool for quite some time now and have played with many many different kinds of cues.  The one I shoot with now is a Jacoby, and I wouldn't play with anything else.  I can do anything with my stock shaft that can be done with a predator shaft.  Good luck, and keep rackn em up!

Answer 4

If your just starting out, and don't want to spend a lot, you can get a decent cue from companies such as Players, Schmelke, Adams, for under $100.  Coming just above that, in the $100 - $200 you have companies like Viking and McDermott who make some good cues at some reasonable prices.  Above that you have a lot of choices like Joss, Schon, Pechaur, etc and there are a lot of smaller local cue makers who put out some very good cues, these of course will vary by where and who makes them.

As for Predator, as the gentleman above me mentioned, well, I don't go around hitting the ball so hard as to generate the kind of flex he's referring to (except on the break).  I've learned that pool is a game of finess and not power.