Nice case. I have a cut and shorten soft Predator case.
is it dangerous to put my case inside of the checked-in luggage?
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I often take it to Mexico to play 3C.
When I’m walking around town people will see the case and occasionally ask, “Machete?”
Lou Figueroa
I did two conversions from 1-piece to 3-piece for a guy who traveled a lot and wanted something he could easily carry on. I thought it was a bit strange, especially at the joint closest to the tip where the new joint pin becomes such a large percentage of the overall diameter. While it looked fine, although a bit odd, I didn't like the way it hit. Weight and balance certainly are affected. He, on the other hand, seems to love them. He tells me that he carries it on all the time with no issues? I've never had another person request such a thing.
LeftyRighty
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I went to Florida for a month, and just checked my cues and case with my other luggage. I was nervous but it went well.
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I've traveled with my cue inside of my bag and never shot a ball with it and I dont think i will ever do....pool tables are very very expensive here for 1hour rental and I am not in vacation to be spending that much money....I guess goodbye pool for few months, I really want to play but even the expensive tables here are in bars & the atmosphere is secondary-pool while drunken laughs are a priority...not my thing-- I wont play until I go back home I guess which will take months maybe depends on the doctors.
That's why I travel with a $80 Lucky cue and my 4th or 5th favorite shaft, I'm not losing a $1,000 cue to lost, stolen or damaged luggage.
My current travel cue is actually a Lucasi I got free due to some damage in the handle, a cuemaker friend put a stacked leather wrap on it, bult me a shaft to match the pin and I have a pretty good travel cue for about $200.
I would get one so I don't need to travel with a full-size suitcase to fit a 29" stick in it. The fact that it seems the xray operators had no idea what it was to stop it in a carry-on would be a bonus, although I don't think I would try it and waste time if they told me it had to come out.
I'm curious. Where is pool too expensive to play a few hours and how much are they charging?
telinoz
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For the OP question, honestly is by far the safest way to move you pool cues around.
A bag within a bag. No brainer.
Mine is a large duffle bag, still has wheels and handle so easy to move around the airport.
Just short enough to get through sensors at auto loader for checkin.
That is about the only concern when buying a bag, avoid oversized checkin.
A bag within a bag. No brainer.
Mine is a large duffle bag, still has wheels and handle so easy to move around the airport.
Just short enough to get through sensors at auto loader for checkin.
That is about the only concern when buying a bag, avoid oversized checkin.
FWIW, I never heard that as one of the methods use by the pros.
One and done. Clothing in one compartment. Case (Full Size), Sockets, Underwear, Toiletries and random stuff in other.
https://www.samsonite.ca/en/luggage...X_color=1172265455&cgidmaster=wheeled-duffles
https://www.samsonite.ca/en/luggage...X_color=1172265455&cgidmaster=wheeled-duffles
I've traveled to london for medical reasons for my mother. So I am traveling with her to help her with all the stuff/papers/doctors appointment etc. So my priority is obviously my mother but whenever I get some free time I said that I wanted to play pool.....but since I've came here ive never touched the cue or pool, the cue still sitting in my suitcase/luggage.
I called several places and all of them are a bar (priority) and pool table on the side with bunch of drunkers which I dont like that atmosphere first of all...ive never seen a good POOLHALL thats actually for only pocket billiards here in london or close by.
For the prices it varies, I called several but the range is as follows.
One guy literaly told me that one hour charge is 24 pounds & I need to pay entry fee of 4 pounds even if I dont play or order nothing, just to entry cause I'm not membership.....I mean 24 pounds alone is 3x the amount I usually pay in my home country plus its a bar.
Another place I called they charge 30 pounds an hour, I am not kidding its so stupid lol....I will never waste money like that, I am not here for vacation so I prefer to safe money for food and meds you know how it is.
Benelli
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I moved to the UK in late 96, lived there for five years, and went from playing three nights a week in Houston to ZIP, NADA...
There were a few private clubs I could get entry to because of friends and all they had were 12ft snooker tables and they would get super pissy if I racked up the reds and shot straight pool. I then found a bar with a 10ft'er you could rent, but trying to get access or playtime when I was free was next to impossible.
My UK experience was so shit that I did not pick up a cue again seriously until last year.
Sorry you're having to deal with that, but I assume that has to be some better halls in the greater London area that have 9ft and 8ft tables given the Matchroom craze and love of 9-ball right now?
The Hurricane Room near Kings Cross station. Pool, snooker, British 8-ball. They sort of have a membership rule but it's only about 5 pounds. If you go, tell the manager I sent you. I also played carom billiards on one of the few carom tables in the UK. That was at the Harringay Snooker Club. Not expensive....
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Thanks man! I'll check on that soon and ill tell them you sent me. If its 5pounds membership does that include some free time on pool table, or is the table also a rental other than this membership... i.e. if the membership just for entry I really don't know why they do this, in my country we don't have this kind of thing haha. In my country membership means I get some extra perks like 20 hrs a month or something with few drinks.
Anyways. I'll give them a call tomorrow and check their table prices if its as expensive as the other ones I cannot afford, unless the guy give me good price because he knows you?
haha! Thanks again.[Update]
I’ve traveled to London now it’s been 3 months here for medical reasons. I’ve brought my favorite cue with me in a small case which I put then diagonally inside of the big traveling bag.
Since I’ve came here I never went to any pool hall or shot a ball due to London being abnormally expensive from where I come from and I felt it’s unnecessary to waste funds on pool rather than my mother and myself whom came here for medical treatment for her.
Here’s why I made this update. Since then I changed houses/apartments three times and here’s the heartbroken thing at least for me. I don’t know where my cue is
I lost it somewhere between changing the apartments. Probably in one of the taxis of which I used to move my stuff and my moms stuff with my sister stuff. Because of the amount of things I had to move it is likely that I left it on one the taxis here and it’s lost forever. It’s like I brought the cue with me to lose it rather than play with it.
The moral take from this story is. Even though I brought it scared that I may lose it in an airplane. That wasn’t the case and even though I haven’t even used it once to play it was brought with me just to lose it. It’s like I took it to London just to lose it without even playing.
Anyway I might put a picture here so if anyone saw the cue can let me know but I don’t think many here are from London so it won’t be useful. Just telling the story.
I lost the best cue I’ve ever used a mike gullyassy cue without even playing one game during my stay here in London, so literally brought the cue to lose it.
I’ve traveled to London now it’s been 3 months here for medical reasons. I’ve brought my favorite cue with me in a small case which I put then diagonally inside of the big traveling bag.
Since I’ve came here I never went to any pool hall or shot a ball due to London being abnormally expensive from where I come from and I felt it’s unnecessary to waste funds on pool rather than my mother and myself whom came here for medical treatment for her.
Here’s why I made this update. Since then I changed houses/apartments three times and here’s the heartbroken thing at least for me. I don’t know where my cue is
I lost it somewhere between changing the apartments. Probably in one of the taxis of which I used to move my stuff and my moms stuff with my sister stuff. Because of the amount of things I had to move it is likely that I left it on one the taxis here and it’s lost forever. It’s like I brought the cue with me to lose it rather than play with it.The moral take from this story is. Even though I brought it scared that I may lose it in an airplane. That wasn’t the case and even though I haven’t even used it once to play it was brought with me just to lose it. It’s like I took it to London just to lose it without even playing.
Anyway I might put a picture here so if anyone saw the cue can let me know but I don’t think many here are from London so it won’t be useful. Just telling the story.
I lost the best cue I’ve ever used a mike gullyassy cue without even playing one game during my stay here in London, so literally brought the cue to lose it.
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