Gator Champion Sport Gino Ferrari Break Billiard Maple Pool Cue Stick,aim Trainer,Glove,Retail Price $99.00

Now that I had time to use this Gino Ferrari Jump-Break cue stick, it's just average, hence 3 of 5 stars. Sure it will break the rack open but it's not much better than a house cue. What we have here is, a good looking house cue that's yours. This cue has the look of a Meucci "cigar band'' cue..Gino's J/B cue is a constant taper shaft, which makes it stiff. BUT it's not stiff like a comparable house cue, it has some give. I had to reshape the tip, it was rounded to a USA dime. That is terrible for a breaking cue since it begets miscues. Apparently the tip Gino designed is a little softer than a normal phenolic tip. Out of curiosity, I "Tip Poker" it to hold chalk and it shot rather well as a playing cue. It even did draw shots well and THAT impressed me (rare). So I'll be cutting the shaft down a bit to get this stick into a performance 'playing stick'. Bye the way, I have a Graphite cue that pops the cue ball 2.5 times faster than Gino's. NOTE: All sticks perform differently..Before i could safely use this stick "I had to" slightly sand all the joints cut edges with 400-600 grit paper. YES they were near razor SHARP! That folks shows the MFG has decent tooling = good thing..SO, if you plan on using this as a playing and jump cue, install a hard to extra hard tip and you will have a fairly good all round cue stick.Not bad for near $50.00 = yes I recommend it but hot wholeheartedly to astute players.__ HOPE THIS REVIEW HELPS __