Pool Cue News and Review

Once upon a time, there was a cuemaker named Bob. He was both a cuemaker and a King in the town known as Byhalia. He made custom cues and the kingdom was happy. He was quite proud of his work and as such, gave them the name of Meucci Cues. The cues he made were good. They played nice, they had a good feel to them. His customers rejoiced. Some even thought that his cues were magical and could fix any game, even for a player that had an otherwise incurable case of the yips. Players young and old, rich and poor would all come to Castle Meucci for the chance to purchase one of King Bob’s fabled cues.

Then something happened at Castle Meucci. We know not whether the king became ill, if his apprentices became lax, or if some foul witch placed a hex on the kingdom, but whatever the cause, Bob’s materials turned against him. The fine hard rock maple, once straight and true was now warped and bowed. The inlays of magnificent mother of pearl would invariably pop out. The king could not understand what was happening. He was sure that nothing had changed, yet people no longer came from miles around to acquire his mythical cues.

Bob searched the globe for answers until one day he came to a far off land in the east. This land, referred to as “China” by the royal inquisitors, offered hope. He could not reveal his mystical secrets of the original Meucci cues to these strangers, so instead he commissioned them to build a new line of cues. He sat in his throne and proclaimed to his loyal subjects that he found a new artisan in the East, a cuemaker with powers that almost rivaled his own. These cues would be called “Medici Cues“. These cues would be built by master artisans from the land of “China” and be brought back to Castle Meucci. There, Bob would take each cue and apply his own master skills to the cue before presenting them to the kingdom.

After many months, the first shipment of cues from the east arrived. Bob proclaimed triumph as unlike his own creations, the new Medici cues rolled straight and true. They did not possess the mystical Black Dot Shaft that only original Meucci cues have, but secretly the king’s subjects rejoiced, as they never truly believed in the power of the Black Dot.

King Bob may never make a pool cue the way he once did, but thanks to his Far East connection, he can once again offer a quality product to his subjects.