1.Don’t buy cues on eBay thinking you found a score. It’s 2023. If it’s a score to you it already was a disappoint to five guys before you that forgot what they found out after buying it. That’s why it’s for sale.
2. Don‘t buy a Scruggs sneaky Pete unless you actually are going to shoot with it. Yes, they go up in value about 100 bucks a year because the new you comes along. I know, I was you at one time. BTW, Bob Frey was great but the cues he built with TS on them wI’ll sell for 2-3 times what his Sneakies with BF sell for and they are as far as I know not just cut in half house cue sticks.
3. Sign up on the Southwest list. Just because, you are now a cue collector.
4. on a serious note, if anyone offers you to test hit their cue do it and make notes. I don’t care if it’s a custom or Kmart special. Take it all in, you can make notes in your phone. This also pertains to shafts.
5. don’t buy a custom cue and put a production carbon fiber shaft on it. If you want carbon fiber buy a cue with a matching shaft At the same time. Cue builders know what they are doing with balance. if You have a production cue ie Pechauer, Jacoby call them to ask for a carbon fiber shaft to match your cue
6. don’t assume what can be built now is better than what you lucked into. I purchased a Searing shaft built for a Tasc and matched it to my Runde, most amazing shaft for me ever. Assumed if I sent the butt to Dennis and He built another shaft it would be even better. Don’t work that why, that shaft is long gone, it had the ivory S and is worth way more than my playing shaft. My playing shaft is worth way more to me.
7. Support local cue builders if they charge fair prices and stand by their cues. This is where new cue builders come from. It’s not easy to not lose money building cues. There is a local builder in my area who I saw 4 guys in a eight table room playing his cues Monday night. I’ve been out of the scene for 4 years and had no idea how he’d blown up. I’ll post his name once I get his ok, He used to post here when I first signed up.
2. Don‘t buy a Scruggs sneaky Pete unless you actually are going to shoot with it. Yes, they go up in value about 100 bucks a year because the new you comes along. I know, I was you at one time. BTW, Bob Frey was great but the cues he built with TS on them wI’ll sell for 2-3 times what his Sneakies with BF sell for and they are as far as I know not just cut in half house cue sticks.
3. Sign up on the Southwest list. Just because, you are now a cue collector.
4. on a serious note, if anyone offers you to test hit their cue do it and make notes. I don’t care if it’s a custom or Kmart special. Take it all in, you can make notes in your phone. This also pertains to shafts.
5. don’t buy a custom cue and put a production carbon fiber shaft on it. If you want carbon fiber buy a cue with a matching shaft At the same time. Cue builders know what they are doing with balance. if You have a production cue ie Pechauer, Jacoby call them to ask for a carbon fiber shaft to match your cue
6. don’t assume what can be built now is better than what you lucked into. I purchased a Searing shaft built for a Tasc and matched it to my Runde, most amazing shaft for me ever. Assumed if I sent the butt to Dennis and He built another shaft it would be even better. Don’t work that why, that shaft is long gone, it had the ivory S and is worth way more than my playing shaft. My playing shaft is worth way more to me.
7. Support local cue builders if they charge fair prices and stand by their cues. This is where new cue builders come from. It’s not easy to not lose money building cues. There is a local builder in my area who I saw 4 guys in a eight table room playing his cues Monday night. I’ve been out of the scene for 4 years and had no idea how he’d blown up. I’ll post his name once I get his ok, He used to post here when I first signed up.
Last edited:
