Fury NR Series Discussion
3/18/2025 11:00:25 PM
Fury NR Series Discussion
After learning about the Fury RP line, I continued to learn about the Fury NR line of pool cues.
I found information on a website that the inlay on the NR line is real, they are not decals. However, the retail price of the Fury NR line is half of what the Fury RP line costs (specifically, NR series cues are $220 and RP series cues are $440).
So what is the difference between these two lines, and why is the price difference as large as it is. Are the RP series cues twice as good?
Is the inlay on the NR line really real, or just a decal?
If anyone has any information, please comment below.
Thank you very much.
Fury NR Series Discussion
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billiardsforum on 3/19/2025 7:51:47 AMIt's a good question. At double the price, you should expect a pool cue that is, for example, twice as intricate, or built with materials which are twice as costly.
Both lines have real inlays. That's a fact proven by the brochures.
Let's compare the marketing materials for each series. We'll look at the first cue in each of the series, the Fury NR-1 and the Fury RP-1 pool cue models:
FUNR01 - The Fury NR-1 is a 58" custom pool cue with special selected and treated white maple shaft, 13mm fibre linen ferrule, Le Pro tip, stainless steel True-Loc joint with joint protectors, and a black butt plate. It comes with a black cue sleeve. Five rings of nickel silver with checkerboard dashes of Russian ebony and synthetic ivory adorn both sides of the joint and the butt sleeve, as well as at the base of the forearm. The butt sleeve and the forearm share a traditional six-point design in Russian ebony, inlaid with bone-colored arrows and diamonds. The forearm is bird’s-eye maple, and the wraps are black Irish linen with white specks.
We can distill the NR-1 cue features to this:
- Shaft: White Maple
- Ferrule: Fibre Linen
- Tip: LePro
- Joint: Stainless Steel Tru-Loc
- Joint Collar: Fibre Linen
- Rings: Nickel-Silver
- Wood: Russian Ebony, Bird's Eye Maple
- Inlay Material: Synthetic Ivory
- Wrap: Irish Linen
...and:
FURP01 - The Fury RP-1 is a 58" custom pool cue with special selected and treated white maple shaft, 13mm fibre linen ferrule, Le Pro tip, Radial pin joint, and black fibre linen joint collars. It comes with joint protectors and a nice embroidered, 2-pocket velvet sleeve. Five rings of gold with checkerboard dashes of Russian ebony and synthetic ivory adorn both sides of the joint and the butt sleeve, as well as at the base of the forearm. The butt sleeve is Russian ebony with synthetic ivory and fire opal inlays. Four diamonds of fire opal are bordered by Russian ebony, set into larger diamonds of synthetic ivory. This pattern is repeated in the Russian ebony forearm, where the synthetic ivory diamonds are stretched to become four points.
We can distill the RP-1 cue features to this:
- Shaft: White Maple
- Ferrule: Fibre Linen
- Tip: LePro
- Joint: Radial Pin
- Joint Collar: Fibre Linen
- Rings: Gold
- Wood: Russian Ebony, Bird's Eye Maple
- Inlay Material: Synthetic Ivory, Fire Opal
- Wrap: Irish Linen
It seems that the only differences are:
- RP cue comes with an embroidered 2-pocket velvet sleeve (cue case)
- RP cue has additional inlay materials - Fire Opal
- RP cue has "gold" rings, whereas the NR cue has "nickel silver". NOTE: this is probably the MAIN reason for the higher price.
I am not sure that these alone account for the 100% price jump from the NR to the RP.
It might make sense to reach out to your local dealer or Fury cue rep if you want more detail.
hung263 on 3/20/2025 9:23:32 PM
Thank you very much for your information. Although I tried to find out about them, the source of information about these old Fury cue lines in the place where I live is almost completely non-existent. My country does not distribute Fury RP, NR, or TP lines, so they are very rare here. I asked the fury staff at the facility in my country but they also did not have information about these lines.
Through research, I found that their differences are:
- Pin: Trulock and radial
- The Inlay material
- Type of wood used to make the body
And it seems I found some more information about the Fury RP line that they are limited collection. As for the NR line, there is no information about this.
I see the difference in price is double, and that has a reason.
My Fury NR-8 cue, after many years, has had a part of the paint peeled off at the ebony inlay, but surprisingly, the bottom is maple wood and not ebony inlay so I doubted the real inlay of this line!
- billiardsforum on 3/21/2025 6:35:56 AM
Here's some info on your Fury NR-8 pool cue:
Fury NR-8 Pool Cue
FUNR08 - The Fury NR-8 is a 58" custom pool cue with special selected white maple shaft, 13mm fibre linen ferrule, Le Pro tip, stainless steel True-Loc joint with joint protectors. It comes with a black cue sleeve. Five rings of nickel silver with checkerboard dashes of Russian ebony and synthetic ivory adorn both sides of the joint and the butt sleeve, as well as at the base of the forearm. The dazzling fire opal inlays in the butt sleeve and forearm, set into Russian ebony floating prongs and windows, draw your eye to the cue. The six prongs are tipped in synthetic ivory. The forearm is bird’s-eye maple, the wraps are black Irish linen with white specks.
Fury NR Series Discussion
- Title: Fury NR Series Discussion
- Author: hung263
- Published: 3/18/2025 11:00:25 PM
- Last Updated: 3/19/2025 7:30:44 AM
- Last Updated By: billiardsforum (Billiards Forum)
