Cocobolo Rosewood
A Brief History of Snooker Cues
Snooker began life as a variation on the Pocket Billiards game and common history places its conception around the middle 19th century. Played by British Army Officers serving in the Commonwealth, it was originally considered a “Gentleman’s’ Game”. Over the early years of the 20th century, its popularity gradually grew in the United Kingdom and in 1927, the first World Snooker Championship took place. However, interest in the game stagnated until the late 1960’s when the BBC introduced the television programme “Pot Black” to the country, becoming an early ratings success. An obsolete term used for them was "billiards stick" that was commonly used around the 16th to early 19th centuries. Before the cue, a mace was used, an implement similar to a golf club. This mace used a "foot" which was used to shove the ball, rather than to strike it. With the programme sparking public interest, the game took off in the UK and Ireland with local pubs’ initially generating interest by purchasing the tables and cues for their family sports rooms, before “Snooker Clubs” began to pop up throughout the country.
As the game developed, so did the market for individuals to purchase and play with their own snooker cue, as they could become comfortable and familiar with its individual properties. Snooker Cues are now freely available to buy as a 1 piece, 2 piece, ¾ piece jointed or a 4 piece cue. Cheaper cues can be manufactured from inexpensive, machine spliced snooker cues or there are the hand spliced, professional quality snooker cues with Exotic Wood veneers made from Snake wood, Mexican Rosewood or Cocobolo.
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