Pool Cues & Accessories

This will help you differentiate the different types of pool sticks to give you the best stick for the price you want to spend. Any cue stick above $250 or so will have about the same quality, so look for design or prestige above that price range.

Cue Sticks

Cue sticks are among the biggest sale items in pool due to the variety of performance and styles creating a demand. Many people will pay $200 to have a great pool cue, but having a Players cue is high enough quality for most and they have a large selection of designs.

Pool Cues

Good pool cues are a great investment for someone planning to play a couple of games of billiards a week. Even for beginners, a lower end brand name pool cue would make for better play and stop the mistakes that a bad pool cue causes.

Pool Shafts

The shaft of the pool stick is the most important piece of equipment for shot accuracy. You can buy a pool shaft that will greatly reduce deflection to improve shots, but they generally also increase spin.

Pool Sticks

A pool stick, or pool cue, can determine how well you play based on how much deflection or spin the pool stick creates on the ball. This is mainly because of the first couple of inches in the shaft, so buying a good quality shaft would be a good idea.

Pool Cue Racks

A pool cue rack would be a good investment if you dislike taking your pool cue apart all the time. A floor pool cue rack would keep them from falling and could protect your cue from damage, but may cause some aggravation if your room has a low ceiling.

Pool Cue Tips

Pool cue tips are cheap and only really effect game play if they are lopsided or loose, so buying a cheaper tip is a good choice. However, because they are cheap, investing in a really good tip wouldn't be much of a monetary setback.

Pool Cue Shafts

Shafts for a pool cue come in a number of different lengths and diameters, most are 11 to 14 mm in diameter and 18 to 32 inches in length. Some companies offer special tapers that allow you to customize your cue.

Players Pool Cue

Players pool cues are the #1 selling brand because of their great prices for good quality, selection, and design. Because of their selection, anyone will find a desirable design among the Players pool cues. They are not the quality of the more expensive brands, but deliver the best quality per dollar.

Graphite Pool Cues

Pool cues made of graphite are a great affordable alternative to the expensive hardwood cues and are impervious to warping. They offer many of the same promises of the expensive cues in improving your game by heightening your shot accuracy but are harder to maintain and do not normally last as long.

Viking Pool Cues

Handcrafted and with a lifetime warranty, Viking pool cues are durable, reliable and are some of the better pool cues on the market. Viking designs their pool cues to give you the best play that equipment can, the rest is up to you.

McDermott Pool Cues

McDermott is known for their handcrafted quality pool cues with great wood integrity and designs that please the eye. They are also the maker of the Intimidator, the one and only $150,000 dollar medieval style pool cue with twin wing blades on the butt. It is not meant for playing pool.

Laser Pool Cue

CueSight makes a laser-guided pool cue to help people learn the angles of reaction while shooting pool. They also offer an online training video, owner's manual, and a description of the features for easy consultation, no matter where you are using the cue.

Flame Cue

Cues with flames on them are pretty easy to find, with the Dooley Stealth Flame cues being among the most popular. They are also designed with rivets to prevent gripping the cue too tightly and slipping due to sweaty palms.

Lucasi Pool Cues

Lucasi makes pool cues that are good quality and are a good choice for someone looking for a pool cue to play several games a week. If you only plan to play once in a while, try one of the two lower end Brunswick pool cues.

Snooker Cue

Snooker cues, thinner than pool cues, are usually cheaper than pool cues for similar quality. If you want to play pool, you should not buy a snooker cue as a substitute for a pool cue because the stress on the cue when playing pool would be likely to ruin your snooker cue.

Fury Pool Cue

Fury pool cues are an up-and-coming line of pool cues with a cue to fit anyone's price range. Their most expensive cues are still moderately priced (around $400) when compared with some of the pricier ($1,000-$2,000) pool cues from the premium brands such as McDermott, Viking, or Predator.

Pechauer Pool Cue

Pechauer are high-grade handcrafted pool sticks, with some being in the range of a moderate pool cue price. They do make the high end custom pool cues for someone desiring unmatched quality in their pool cue and the price is well deserved.

Cuetec Pool Cue

If you don't desire a handmade or completely wood pool cue, then a Cuetec is probably your best bet. They have production cues made of fiberglass and wood that provide top performance and have been used to win ten world championships.

Meucci Pool Cue

Meucci produces top of the line pool cues and shafts for professional-grade billiards players and people that want to have the best advantage possible over their opponent. However, their prices are over $400 and run up in the $1,000 dollar range.

Joss Pool Cue

Joss makes handcrafted pool cues and specializes in custom unique pool cues that they insist will become family heirlooms and valuable antiques in the future. Whether that is true or not, they are still a great pool cue to invest in for frequent billiards players.

Predator Pool Cue

Predator is known for their custom shafts that improve shot accuracy, the 314² and the Z² that are great shafts for pros. For beginners, buying a $200-$300 shaft is probably not necessary, and the change in accuracy will not be very noticeable.

Mali Pool Cue

Mali makes some of the more affordable pool cues and are a great alternative to the more expensive McDermott or Viking pool cues. They are available from dealers or online at a variety of bargain pool cue sites.

Schon Pool Cue

Schon is one of the smaller cue makers, with many of their cues produced in lots of 30 or less and many of them being only one cue runs (Schon Unique cues). Someone looking to have the only cue of its kind should check out a Schon pool cue.

Brunswick Pool Cue

Brunswick makes some of the less fancy pool cues, but the designs are classic with a vintage flair to give them a fancier look than they really are. Great for a beginner, but anyone that knows much about pool cues will recognize these and know the real value.

Pool Chalk

Chalk keeps the tip of your cue stick from sliding when it hits the cue ball and therefore improves the accuracy of your shot. Most amateurs do not have a preference of pool chalk, but masters enjoy Silver Cup and Master chalk.