Have you guys seen the Nick Varner cues? I was in the front of the pool hall yesterday and this cue was out of its cage.
The clerk I guess was showing it among others and didn't put it back.
OK It had Beautiful points,CNC I'm sure, holly or some white wood,not ivory,with an inlayed turquoise "paste inlay",inside the white wood inlay.
The shaft had that feel like it was treated with that special " cue slicck or silk" and was next to amazing........
I didnd't want to hit it because A I own enough cues and B what would this do to my exspensive cues to buy a cue for 125.00 list that looked like that!
Goodby, high end cue market except for collectors........the newbies have choices we never had. Remember that crap they called cues that usu to be in the discount stores!
How can they sell so cheap? Oh I know , "slave" Chinese labor that is paid 25cents an hour.
Will these greedy American own import companies have anyone to sell anything to after a while? Not everyone can go to college and be a doctor or stock broker...........
We use to have a middle class that made things and lived a good life...now there all made in other countries.
Boy, Our local Budweiser sold out to In Bev and did people start losing there jobs.....St. Louis pretty soon will look like a Ghost town with all the empty stores.....
All thats left is Walmart,Lowes,Home Depot, Walgreens, Costco, and Lexus,Honda,Toyata, dealers.
Wait till the Chinese cars hit the U.S.A.
Haiti will look like Las Vegas compared to some of these american cities, pretty soon....
Crawdad

I have a Varner and it was certainly more than 125.00 but was not within what you'd call the high end. I paid @ 350.00 for it. Seems to be a decent cue. I can't say that I don't care much for imported items as most of what I own is in some portion (if not all) imported from somewhere such as vehicles, electronics, etc.. If I were to tout that I didn't care for imports but yet I owned them, that would certainly make me a hypocrite which is not what or who I am. I own imports because it's what I can afford at the time. On the other hand, I would give anything to have something that is genuinely American made whether it be a cue, a table, a car, etc.

However; I do wish that American manufacturers would stop outsourcing to other countries and bring it back to a "Made in America with American Pride" mentality and still make it affordable to those of us who have to stay within a fairly tight budget.

Sorry about making you all think the cue was CNC...Nick (Varner) was on the phone today and he will be at the pool hall tomorrow on his way to Iowa and stated that the cue in mention was a decal inlay.
Thats how good it looked to me.........but the shaft still is bitchin.....Crawdad

My Nick Varner sneaky pete shoots great. A nice cue for the money for sure. I need to get a softer tip for it though as the one on it appears to be dried out now.