Comments on: Buyers Guide: Meucci Originals Inc.

By: Skippy

Skippy — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:09:23 +0000

@ Jesse…For many years I played with the worst/cheapest cues. As a young boy (around 8 yrs old, probably…I can’t remember), I was out with my Father at a store that sold brass stuff. He was looking at a brass bed. Well, they had a 5-piece cue there, for some stupid reason. I just had to have that cue. That was the worst damn cue ever, LOL. I finally got a decent cue, when I got into college. I got a Meucci, which I played with for a few years, before switching to a Schon.

By: doug royer

doug royer — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:24:58 +0000

I’ve been playing with Meucci’s for over 25 years and will shoot with nothing else. I have 3 originals in my collection and play with a 97-13 currently. I’ve hit with many other sticks and nothing hits like a Meucci.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:22:28 +0000

Ive been playin pool for about ten years and still remember the first time I shot a meucci. It had unbelievable control and the ferrule felt like it absorbed most of the impact. My first cue was cheap off the wall cue made by Harvard. I took that cue everywhere with me when I was in the Navy and shot very well with it, during this time I tried other cues like Action, Mcdermot, Viking, Schon, and Balabushka. They shot well but lacked a pro taper and soft feel that meucci is known for. We all have problems with control, its not the cue, its the operator. if your good u can play w a broomstick, you may not win any tournaments but you can play. Meucci shafts have less deflection than the Predator, However, its subjective because anyone can eventually adjust to the deflection of any shaft if used long enough.
Last year I finally reached a point in my life where I can compete with the best so I felt like it was time for me to purchase a meucci, and have seen my game improve greatly. Im kicking balls better and using my stroke rather than english has never been easier.
It all depends on preference and your style of play, some people bank balls that I prefer cutting and vice versa. Also, I wanted a cue American made and used by old-school players who know billiards. Most cues are made elsewhere in Asia and Europe I wanted Wood from North America. Anyways thanks for listening.

By: christopher bass

christopher bass — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:57:59 +0000

what year was meucci original pool cue model 95-8 made

By: risc

risc — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:22:07 +0000

Hi Skippy,
how can i see pictures of meucci originals?
We have one with a key symbol (but not one of the name “lock&key”, which i found somewhere).
Have bougth it around 1995. How can i upload a picture?

My wife and me liked to play it very much, learned to control the special “spirit” of the meucci original and sometimes think of it as “magic”.

best regards,
risc

By: kopper

kopper — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:36:10 +0000

nice cue but no monster never heard of them being monster players some good but like eric said some bad but i have played with one and taking in to thought that the time in which it was made it plays awesome but back then they didnt know or have a quater of the high tech stuff we have george was way ahead of his time as was gus just think if he still was around what he could do and gus WOW! this cue would a monster if it had a ivory butt or if those ring at the joint were ivory becuase of how rare it would be.

By: Skippy

Skippy — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:36:54 +0000

Randy,
Do you have any pictures of the cue that you could share?

By: randy wilson

randy wilson — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:26:12 +0000

I’ve run across (and bought) what appears to be an older Meucci Cue. It is all done in ivory with Chess pieces at the bottom. It has two shafts, one that was probably made custom as a Snooker shaft (longer). Is this a collector type cue? How many of these were made. I haven’t been able to find anything like it anywhere. Help. rw

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:59:26 +0000

p.s. i forgot to mention that i was speaking about production cues.

By: Pask

Pask — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:02:36 +0000

Hi all,

I’m a French pool amateur. I’ve had the same Meucci since 1996. Before buying it, I had played with a cheap beginner cue and then a mid-range Buffalo. I also tried a Balabushka from a mate. It seemed like stiff shafts didn’t fit with my own play. When I had the opportunity to try Meucci cues from other players around me (in the 1990s Meucci cues were very trendy, fashionable here in France), it looked to me that lively shafts and Meucci shafts would be the right type of shafts for my play. Since I got my own Meucci, I felt like my game really improved (I was a beginner, I started pool in 1995). I’ve never had problems to control the cue ball or to put side English etc.

Also, because of my job and personnal life, I had to take a temporary break away from pool, for something like 4 years. When I came back to pool 5 months ago, my Meucci didn’t got old, played it like in the good old times and I didn’t have any difficulty to find my play back after such a long period off.

I’m not a pro, I’m just a regular player, with just a local level, but I just feel pretty comfortable with my Meucci. The shaft is still the original one and it still works well.

However, I don’t say Meuccis are the best cues, of course. I guess a cue is very personal. If some don’t like Meucci cues, I totally understand. It’s a question of taste first. Apart from the playability, I can testify that Meuccis are very good quality cues over time, as they keep being good after years and years, like in my case. The way they are decorated is also a very nice point (but also a matter of taste I agree!). The only weak point, to my mind, would be that now you can’t find any spare ‘no-dot’ shafts (i.e. old shafts like mine). Now Meucci only sell Black Dot or Red Dot shafts, due to low-deflection ‘paranoia’. I’m kidding about that, but the problem is is that I’m sure some players don’t care about low deflection and play well without a specific shaft (matter of taste, again). It’s just a pity that Meucci enthusiasts have no choice now than getting these new types of shafts for their old Meucci. After all, lively shafts were a kind of token specific to Meucci cues.

Anyway, there are as many good different cues as there are pool players. And I also don’t want to stick on one type of cue, looking forward to getting a new different one, and not a Meucci, in the long run, just to vary my own play in a way.