Gotta let these out of the closet...
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Nice cues. Thanks for sharing with us.
Kobachi
Scarred but Smarter
Proud of the EY, long time ago he made that one for me and it was then I was taught the essence of patience. But alas...and...it made volume 3 of the BB, color spread, center cue. Yes, I whored her out, Ed's request actually. Cue makes a nice ping...now if I could only string 4 balls together like I used to...
Thanks for sharing!:thumbup:
Right on :thumbup:
Nice
I am currently learning that lesson myself!
His cues play so great it's worth the wait!
I am currently learning that lesson myself!
His cues play so great it's worth the wait!
what a great collection, Schon makes the coolest "Skull cues", they really aint my bag, yet I'd like to own one someday-but my skull cue has to be a Schon-someday.
the Rambo is my favorite, I love old cues.
thanks for posting them up, I really appericate it, looking at collections is great, I often wonder the order the collector buy the in, which was the first/last and in the middle. When I look at my collection and see a cue I have had for years-it takes me back to my frame of mind when I bought it, where I was playing, who I was hanging out with, why I bought it. Etc. There is so much more to cue collecting than just the cues-its the story behind the cues, I have alot of cues that are well used that I wish I knew the story behind them-sadly none of my cues can talk, but they do sing when I play with them:wink:,
congrats on that collection and thx again for the pics.
the Rambo is my favorite, I love old cues.
thanks for posting them up, I really appericate it, looking at collections is great, I often wonder the order the collector buy the in, which was the first/last and in the middle. When I look at my collection and see a cue I have had for years-it takes me back to my frame of mind when I bought it, where I was playing, who I was hanging out with, why I bought it. Etc. There is so much more to cue collecting than just the cues-its the story behind the cues, I have alot of cues that are well used that I wish I knew the story behind them-sadly none of my cues can talk, but they do sing when I play with them:wink:,
congrats on that collection and thx again for the pics.
Kobachi
Scarred but Smarter
Never thought of that....
...but you're right. If some of these cues could talk...The stories and acquired order on some of my cues, and I'm sure many others on this site, are interesting. I'll mention a couple...The Meucci, my first cue which I stared at in the display case at Chris's in Chicago around 20 years ago when I was 18, playing in every weekly 9 ball tourney I could scrape up the entry for. I put down 20 bucks and they held it for me until I could pay it off, took me probably 3 months ($130?). That cue was eventually sold to my buddie, from whom I borrowed it from on a league night. That night we out of hand from one too many miller lite's, I did my best luke skywalker impression after our team won, swinging it like a light saber, and the hourglass taper on that cue had finally had enough, it snapped in two and flew across the room! Well, I had Ed Young build me another shaft for my buddies Meucci a short time later. Then...somehow I got the cue collecting bug...few years later, after I had a modest collection, I felt the need to have my very first cue back. $150 took care of that.
The Rambow...About 4-5 years ago, I helped out a buddie of mine move a bunch of furniture to his girlfriends place, in the pouring rain. He has a huge garage here in the city where we eventually ended up in. After he thanked me for helping him, he asked about compensation, which I declined.
After looking around his garage which we could barely move around in due to his hoarding every thing he's ever came in contact with in his life, I jokingly asked him if he had any old cues in his garage. He rifled around, climbing over stuff and produced a handful of old, cheap, taiwan cues, worthless...then he said, "wait, there's an old case around here somewhere", moments later he found an old dusty vinyl case. I unzipped it open, pulled out the 2 shafts first, and my heart skipped, buckhorn ferrules, then pulled out the butt, saw the butt end, and nearly sharted myself. I told him, "I think we have a problem, this could be a Rambow"..."What's a Rambow?", now I could've played it off like it wasn't anything valuable, but he's a good friend, and I believe in honesty (most of the time!). I told him it would have to be authenticated, but it could be worth decent money. He never flinched, and told me.."if you never would have asked, I wouldn't have ever known, and it probably would have been thrown out...keep it, it's your's"....unreal....months later, Deano Andrews met up with me one night, examined it, played with it, and said, "congratulations, you've got a Rambow"...
I've got more stories, but I don't want to write a novel, and after I read the last response to my thread, it conjured up the memories of some of these cues, and I felt the need to write about at least these two. I don't think there's a permanent thread about "interesting cue acquisitions" or "if this cue could talk", but I think it wouldn't be the worst idea, and probably some fun reads!
Thanks for your nice comments on some of my cues, I'm late for work!
...but you're right. If some of these cues could talk...The stories and acquired order on some of my cues, and I'm sure many others on this site, are interesting. I'll mention a couple...The Meucci, my first cue which I stared at in the display case at Chris's in Chicago around 20 years ago when I was 18, playing in every weekly 9 ball tourney I could scrape up the entry for. I put down 20 bucks and they held it for me until I could pay it off, took me probably 3 months ($130?). That cue was eventually sold to my buddie, from whom I borrowed it from on a league night. That night we out of hand from one too many miller lite's, I did my best luke skywalker impression after our team won, swinging it like a light saber, and the hourglass taper on that cue had finally had enough, it snapped in two and flew across the room! Well, I had Ed Young build me another shaft for my buddies Meucci a short time later. Then...somehow I got the cue collecting bug...few years later, after I had a modest collection, I felt the need to have my very first cue back. $150 took care of that.
The Rambow...About 4-5 years ago, I helped out a buddie of mine move a bunch of furniture to his girlfriends place, in the pouring rain. He has a huge garage here in the city where we eventually ended up in. After he thanked me for helping him, he asked about compensation, which I declined.
After looking around his garage which we could barely move around in due to his hoarding every thing he's ever came in contact with in his life, I jokingly asked him if he had any old cues in his garage. He rifled around, climbing over stuff and produced a handful of old, cheap, taiwan cues, worthless...then he said, "wait, there's an old case around here somewhere", moments later he found an old dusty vinyl case. I unzipped it open, pulled out the 2 shafts first, and my heart skipped, buckhorn ferrules, then pulled out the butt, saw the butt end, and nearly sharted myself. I told him, "I think we have a problem, this could be a Rambow"..."What's a Rambow?", now I could've played it off like it wasn't anything valuable, but he's a good friend, and I believe in honesty (most of the time!). I told him it would have to be authenticated, but it could be worth decent money. He never flinched, and told me.."if you never would have asked, I wouldn't have ever known, and it probably would have been thrown out...keep it, it's your's"....unreal....months later, Deano Andrews met up with me one night, examined it, played with it, and said, "congratulations, you've got a Rambow"...
I've got more stories, but I don't want to write a novel, and after I read the last response to my thread, it conjured up the memories of some of these cues, and I felt the need to write about at least these two. I don't think there's a permanent thread about "interesting cue acquisitions" or "if this cue could talk", but I think it wouldn't be the worst idea, and probably some fun reads!
Thanks for your nice comments on some of my cues, I'm late for work!
nice group, sir, and a couple real good cues inside