Action is Quarter King's largest single cue lineup: 315 pool cues, cases, a shaft and a small run of accessories, most of it priced well under $300. Nearly every cue in the range, from the entry Value and Starter lines up through pricier Khrome and Fractal cues, shares the same handful of specs, a 5/16x18 joint, a 13mm classic wood shaft, and a wrap choice from wrapless to leather. Below is the full Action lineup we stock, split into pool cues and cases, along with what's verified about the brand itself, its warranty, and how its joint and shaft specs compare across the range.
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4.9/5 average from 2,479 customer reviews across Action.
Action isn't run as an independent cue company. It's one of the manufacturer's own in-house brand names, sold alongside other house brands from the same maker, including Athena, Eight Ball Mafia, Elite, Griffin, Katana, Outlaw, Scorpion, Voodoo, Summit, Spartan, Junior and Talon, all grouped under one shared house-brand lineup. Every Action cue we've been able to check against the manufacturer's spec sheet lists China as its country of origin.
Within that lineup, Quarter King currently lists 315 Action products, 227 of them in stock, priced from a few dollars for small accessories up to about $690 for our priciest listings, with a median price around $130. Examples across that spread include the Action ADV81 Adventure Cue at about $220, the Action ACT157 Fractal Cue at about $250, the Action ABK05 Red Sport Break Cue at about $220, the Action ACT131 Exotic Cue at about $220, the Action IMP69 Impact Cue at about $220, and the Action Impact IMP78 Cue at about $130. Our own sales history doesn't point to one runaway favorite either: the ADV81 leads with four recorded sales, the ACT160 Fractal Cue follows with two, and the rest of our top movers sit at a single sale each, a pattern that reads as steady, spread-out demand across the range rather than one dominant model.
Outside retailers describe the brand in consistent terms. One national retailer positions Action as a line built for players "of every level" at affordable pricing, and states the brand is used by more than 400,000 league players worldwide. A separate independent retailer places Action in the $100-to-$300 mid-range bracket, calling it a common first "real" cue for someone moving up from a house cue, a fit for budget-conscious intermediates, and standard gear for weekly leagues, and adds that Action remains a familiar sight in pool halls across the country. That estimate lines up closely with the bulk of what we stock; our wider $3-to-$690 spread mostly reflects cases and accessories at the low end and pricier break and exotic cues at the top.
Action's footprint at Quarter King spans four of our product categories: pool cues, cases, a shaft, and a handful of accessories.
Our dedicated Action Pool Cues category lists 139 cues, spanning 18 named series from entry-priced lines like Value and Starter up through pricier lines like Khrome and Fractal. Across those cues, prices run from about $20 up to about $290, with a median around $180, a narrower band than the brand's overall $3-to-$690 range once cases, the shaft and accessories are folded in.
Action also backs one of our largest case selections: 148 cases in the Action Cases category, sized to match the brand's own cues and other two-piece sticks. That's nearly as many cases as pool cues in the Action lineup, and we don't currently have separate joint, shaft or wrap attribute data for the case line the way we do for cues.
Quarter King's general shafts category currently carries a single listing, an Action carbon fiber shaft, the lone exception to an otherwise all-wood Action lineup.
A short run of Action-branded accessories rounds out the lineup, sold alongside the cues and cases rather than in their own dedicated shop section.
The figures in this section span Action's full catalog, cues, cases and the single shaft together; our dedicated Action Pool Cues category page breaks the cue-only numbers down further. Across every Action product in our system with a joint type on file, a standard 5/16x18 joint is by far the most common at 137, with a piloted version of that same thread appearing 34 times. Action also fits two of its own quick-release designs, Action Quick Release (10) and Inox Quick Release (5), mostly on break and jump cues, plus smaller runs of one-piece construction (7), 5/16x14 (7), 3/8x10 (7), Uni-Loc (3) and Radial (3) joints. If you're trying to match a spare shaft or a break cue to what you already own, our 5/16x18 joint page lists every other cue on the site built on that same thread.
On the shaft side, 170 of the 189 Action cues with a shaft size on file use a 13.00mm tip, with smaller runs at 12.00mm (11, mostly Junior cues), 14.00mm (7, mostly break and jump cues) and a single 13.50mm outlier. Wood is standard across the range: 189 shafts are classic wood, against a single carbon fiber shaft, the lone exception mentioned above; see classic wood and carbon fiber to compare. Wraps split fairly evenly between no wrap at all, 102 wrapless cues, and a linen wrap on 65 more, with smaller runs of sport wrap (9) and leather wrap (8); our wrapless and linen wrap pages break each down further. If you're shopping for a replacement shaft rather than a full cue, our 13.00mm and 12.00mm shaft-size pages, along with the general shafts category, cover the sizes Action uses most.
Color options across the range are broad for a budget-focused brand: black leads at 111 products, followed by white (41), blue (39), red (30), tan (29) and brown (27), with smaller runs in grey, green, pink and purple, and a handful of one-off finishes in orange, silver, yellow, multicolor, gold, natural, zebrawood and cherrywood. If a specific color matters as much as the spec sheet does, it's worth checking the individual listing, since color availability varies series by series rather than being spread evenly across the whole catalog.
Outside retailer positioning points to a fairly broad audience. One retailer pitches the brand at "every level" of player, and its scale, more than 400,000 league players cited, suggests wide league and house-cue use rather than a niche following. Another retailer's listing narrows that further: a natural step up for a beginner outgrowing a house cue, a fit for intermediates watching a budget, and standard equipment for weekly leagues, and it adds that Action remains a familiar sight in pool halls across the country. At a median price around $130, Action sits toward the affordable end of Quarter King's cue wall, consistent with that positioning. Community feedback we cover below suggests treating that "every level" framing with some caution: build consistency isn't described as uniform from cue to cue, so it's worth thinking of Action as a value pick rather than a guaranteed match for every playing style.
The spec data behind our own catalog classifies Action's warranty only in broad strokes. Most of the 466 SKUs on that sheet, 443 of them, fall under a generic "Limited" warranty, with a smaller group of 23 flagged "Limited-1 year," and the sheet itself doesn't spell out what's excluded, warpage, finish, wraps or tips, or whether registering the cue is required. A published retail listing advertises a more specific policy, stating every Action cue "features a 1 year manufacturer's warranty against defects." The manufacturer's own documentation doesn't resolve that gap between the generic "Limited" language and that retailer's 1-year figure, so we're presenting both here rather than picking one; if warranty coverage matters to your decision, confirm the current terms before you buy. Every Action cue we've been able to verify against that same spec sheet is manufactured in China, which is worth knowing alongside the warranty terms since it's the one piece of origin information the sheet does state clearly.
Community feedback on Action, pulled from AzBilliards forum threads, runs mixed rather than uniformly good or bad. Posters in one thread describe hit and construction as inconsistent, "can vary a lot from cue to cue," with some units playing well and others turning out to be duds.
In the same thread, a player who used Action cues as house cues in a pool room called them durable enough to "take a beating" and playable as long as the tip isn't worn out, but ranked Action below Players and Elite cues in a side-by-side comparison and suggested against paying full retail for several of them rather than buying used or going custom.
A separate, older comment from a single 2007 poster described an Action cue playing "just as good" as nicer cues, without the worry of damaging something expensive around the pool room. That's one voice from one old thread, not a broader consensus.
Taken together, the sourced feedback points to treating Action as a value pick rather than assuming uniform quality across every cue in the range, and to being especially cautious about paying full retail for several Action cues in a row when a single used or custom cue might serve the same purpose.
Browse the full Action pool cue lineup in our Action Pool Cues category, or start from our complete pool cues selection to compare Action against every other brand we carry on price, joint type or shaft size. If you're weighing Action against our full case and shaft selection too, the Action Cases and shafts categories linked above are the fastest way to see what else carries the brand name.
Action is a house brand from the same manufacturer that produces other brands like Athena, Elite and Outlaw; it isn't an independent cue maker.
Every Action cue we've checked against the manufacturer's spec sheet lists China as its country of origin.
The manufacturer's own spec sheet classifies coverage only as a general "Limited" warranty; one retailer separately advertises a 1-year warranty against defects on every Action cue.
The large majority of Action pool cues we stock use a 5/16x18 joint, with smaller runs of a piloted 5/16x18, Action's own quick-release designs, and a few other thread types.
Outside retailers position Action as a fit for players at every level looking for an affordable, dependable cue, especially beginners moving up from a house cue and weekly league players.
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