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John Parris (born 1952) is an English manufacturer of snooker cues. Based in Forest Hill in London , England , Parris is one of the most renowned producers of cues. [ 1 ] He opened his cue workshop in 1984.
Parris Cues' products are produced at the company's Forest Hill, London, UK workshop. The company sells its cues worldwide. [1] The first notable major cue repair was performed in 1987, when Steve Davis's cue snapped at the ferrule, whilst playing in the Rothman's Grand Prix. It was decided the best option for repair, whilst maintaining the cue ...
Today, Fylde Instruments can command high prices and all instruments are hand-made using traditional techniques, while using modern machinery for some of the operations. Although there is a range of standard instruments that the business builds for customers most of Bucknall's output is a one-off custom guitars.
Carom and snooker cues are more often hand-made, and are more costly on average than pool cues, since the market for mass-produced cues is only particularly strong in the pool segment. High-end hand-made, but non-custom carom and snooker cues are largely products of Europe and Asia, while their pool counterparts are mostly North American products.
A player using a cue stick to push a billiard ball forward to move an object ball A pool cue and its major parts. [1]: 71–72 [2]A cue stick (or simply cue, more specifically billiards cue, pool cue, or snooker cue) is an item of sporting equipment essential to the games of pool, snooker and carom billiards.
Considered one of the greatest players of all time, he is the most successful player from outside the United Kingdom and the only non-UK born to have completed snooker's Triple Crown, having won the World Championship in 2010, the Masters in 2012 and 2022 and the UK Championship in 2013, 2015 and 2020. He has claimed a career total of 24 ...
Rights to the brand were acquired by competitor BCE (originally Bristol Coin Equipment, later rebranded as Billiard Cues of England), who continues to use the Riley name for one of their product lines. [7] [2] The Billiards Company, a Dublin-based company owned by former players John Benton and Darren Lennox, used to trade as E.J. Riley Ireland ...
George Balabushka (Russian: Григорий Антонович Балабушка Grigoriy Antonovich Balabushka; December 9, 1912 – December 5, 1975) was a Russian-born billiards (pool) cue maker, arguably the most prominent member of that profession, [1] and is sometimes referred to as "the Stradivarius of cuemakers".