About Diamond Wood Cues

Built From a Lifetime Around Pool — and a Career in Precision Manufacturing

Diamond Wood Cues wasn't created because I simply wanted to open another online pool store. It grew from decades of playing pool, being involved in the pool community, and a career built around engineering, design, and precision manufacturing.

I've been a pool player since the late 1980s and have spent a large part of my life around the game. Over the years, I've worked to improve my own game through professional instruction from several respected players and instructors, including Mark Wilson and Jerry Briesath. That experience has given me an appreciation not only for how equipment is made, but for how small changes in equipment can affect the way it actually performs in a player's hands.

I'm also heavily involved in the pool community, both locally and online. I talk with players constantly, work on their equipment, listen to what they like and don't like, and pay attention to the problems players experience with the products already on the market.

An Engineer's Approach to Pool Equipment

Before Diamond Wood Cues, my professional background was in engineering and manufacturing high-precision components for the aerospace, automotive, and defense industries.

That background has had a major influence on everything we do.

For years, my everyday work involved tight tolerances, precision machining, inspection, repeatability, material selection, and solving manufacturing problems where “close enough” wasn't good enough.

I brought that same mindset into Diamond Wood Cues.

When we design a shaft, develop a cue component, modify a product, or manufacture something ourselves, I don't look at it only as a pool player. I look at it as an engineer and a manufacturer.

Why is it made this way?
Can it be made better?
Can we improve consistency?
Can we improve the way it feels or performs?
Can we hold a tighter standard?

Those are questions we've been asking from the beginning.

We Don't Just Sell Products. We Work With Them.

One of the biggest advantages we have is that design and manufacturing aren't foreign concepts to us. They were part of my everyday career long before Diamond Wood Cues.

That allows us to do things differently from a company that simply purchases a product and puts it on a website.

We can design products, prototype ideas, machine components, test changes, make adjustments, and understand what is happening from both the player's perspective and the manufacturing side.

It's one of the reasons we're so particular about the products we make and the products we choose to sell.

Part of the Pool Community

Diamond Wood Cues is still very much connected to the people who play the game.

We're at local tournaments, league nights, pool rooms, and online talking with players. Many of the products and ideas we work on come directly from those conversations.

Sometimes a player asks for something that doesn't exist.

Sometimes they show us a problem with something they already own.

And sometimes an idea starts with a simple:

“Do you think you could make this?”

A lot of the time, the answer is yes.

That's one of my favorite parts of what we do.

Our Standard Is Simple

We're not trying to be just another online dealer.

We want Diamond Wood Cues to be a place where you can buy quality equipment, get knowledgeable help before the purchase, and still have someone to talk to long after the sale.

Whether we're selling a product from one of the manufacturers we represent or building something of our own, we approach it with the same philosophy I worked under for years in precision manufacturing:

Pay attention to the details. Hold a high standard. And don't accept “good enough” when you know you can make it better.

That's what Diamond Wood Cues is about.