Some good companies that make decent quality snooker cues are the Peradon snooker cues. I have had and still have a lot of their cues even if I don't use them as much these days. They are high quality and always hand made. I really don't like the machine made cues since they have the tendency to feel like machine made. They don't have the warmth of a hand-made and they don't have the uniqueness. A cue maker always leaves his identity on the cue. They give everything they have and you can feel the experience built in decades of snooker playing and making the cues. That is a profession that I will propably go into during my retirement days. That would be a good way to give something back to the community.