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Merry Christmas Runout...Our economy is pretty bad now not many people buying much...Thank you for doing whatever in Afganistan...Good luck on the sales and WELCOME HOME.....runout1961 said:Because that is when I come home from Afghanistan for a short two week vacation. At that time my entire collection will be for sale. When I return for good I want to get back into playing and be done with collecting. Thanks for asking buddy
John
use 'em all
today is my birthday(thanks) ; i'm 55. officially senior citiizen! if it is mine i will play with it! i've had a schon cue(about 1K) for about 15 years, used it a lot, anywhere anytime. a few dings on it and it still hits better than i shoot. looking forward to some other cues in the notsodistant future that i will shoot with. i also have an early joss cue when danny janes and bill stroud were still together(about 3K) that i shoot with anytime, anywhere. i do have a carolina cue-the very FIRST one EVER SOLD- with documentation-that maybe i should not shoot with, BUT I DO.
i have some others- espiritu's, heubler, rich, biagio, etc. that i shoot with as well. why not get the benefit of the cues? shoot 'em up is my attitude! if i had a very high dollar cue or a cue with a lot of historical value i would stil;l shoot with it but of course i would take a bit more care with it, but i would still play with it.
today is my birthday(thanks) ; i'm 55. officially senior citiizen! if it is mine i will play with it! i've had a schon cue(about 1K) for about 15 years, used it a lot, anywhere anytime. a few dings on it and it still hits better than i shoot. looking forward to some other cues in the notsodistant future that i will shoot with. i also have an early joss cue when danny janes and bill stroud were still together(about 3K) that i shoot with anytime, anywhere. i do have a carolina cue-the very FIRST one EVER SOLD- with documentation-that maybe i should not shoot with, BUT I DO.
i have some others- espiritu's, heubler, rich, biagio, etc. that i shoot with as well. why not get the benefit of the cues? shoot 'em up is my attitude! if i had a very high dollar cue or a cue with a lot of historical value i would stil;l shoot with it but of course i would take a bit more care with it, but i would still play with it.
asiasdad
Banned
runout,
I had collected cues for awhile, and like you, I tried to determine
what few I would keep, and if only one could ultimately be kept,
which one would that be?
There were some tough choices to be made, including TAD, pre-date
Southwest, the rarest Murray Tucker on the planet, a high end
Lambros to mention a few of over 40.
What did I keep? I kept only 3 cues, and only one of these I am
considering letting go. My daily player is a 4K Mottey, and the other
"keeper" is a pristine Meucci Original OL-1 that represents the first
cue I ever owned.
Neither one of these cues are the best "player" I've ever owned,
they represent an emotional attachment that money simply cannot
replace.
As for the cue I have left that I would part company. Only to
get one of my "best players" back that I should not have let out
of my sight !!
So please give your choices of for sale cues great consideration
to minimize the sellers remorse that will happen.
Best of luck to you,
Danny
I had collected cues for awhile, and like you, I tried to determine
what few I would keep, and if only one could ultimately be kept,
which one would that be?
There were some tough choices to be made, including TAD, pre-date
Southwest, the rarest Murray Tucker on the planet, a high end
Lambros to mention a few of over 40.
What did I keep? I kept only 3 cues, and only one of these I am
considering letting go. My daily player is a 4K Mottey, and the other
"keeper" is a pristine Meucci Original OL-1 that represents the first
cue I ever owned.
Neither one of these cues are the best "player" I've ever owned,
they represent an emotional attachment that money simply cannot
replace.
As for the cue I have left that I would part company. Only to
get one of my "best players" back that I should not have let out
of my sight !!
So please give your choices of for sale cues great consideration
to minimize the sellers remorse that will happen.
Best of luck to you,
Danny
Not sure what the true value of my 1990 South West cue is, but I did buy it for $2500 and it is in my rotation of payer cues. Depending on how I feel, I pick this South West, or my Blackcreek or It's George cue. The only cue I have sort of retired for now is my Omega/DPK.
I'm just a hobby player as I play only about 1-2 times a week with friends, but every pool cue I buy I buy it with the intention of playing with it. So far I have let whichever of my friends hit with them if they wanted to. Sometimes that don't bring their cue and I let them use one of mine since I carry two cues in my case.
I'm just a hobby player as I play only about 1-2 times a week with friends, but every pool cue I buy I buy it with the intention of playing with it. So far I have let whichever of my friends hit with them if they wanted to. Sometimes that don't bring their cue and I let them use one of mine since I carry two cues in my case.
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Considering that my playing cue is a 35 year old Gus Szamboti, I'd have to say yes. Life's too short. :thumbup2:
Your Tascarella should definitely be getting used. You bought it & had it refinished, you might as well enjoy using it. It should be a great playing cue.
Your Tascarella should definitely be getting used. You bought it & had it refinished, you might as well enjoy using it. It should be a great playing cue.
I myself dont have any cues that are worth that kind of loot,but I am a big fan of mcdermott cues and own a few of them. they are mainly the early harley davidson series cues but even those dont go to the bars, pool halls no problem but local bars around here are outta the question.even if it were a highly collectible cue and it improved my game tremendously . i guess what im getting at is that it wouldnt bother me to use it everyday but i would only be playing at places that were a little more respectable does that make sense?
My daily player would be the best playing cue that I have available to me regardless of cost. I must have had over 500 plus cues that been through my hand and I make an effort to hit with every single one. Also have hit with a lot more that don't belong to me. Most of the cues are medium range cues and some are high end but the cue I play with and is my daily player happens to be the best cue for me until I find something else to replace it. It's a search for the holy grail of cue....knowing that there isn't only going one. LOL.
Regards,
Duc.
Regards,
Duc.
Secaucus Fats
Banned
uwate said:I play with my Gus and it has received nicks and dings from balls hitting it to me accidently dropping it on the floor. One time I was getting out of my car in a tremendous rainstorm in Miami and the top to my Justis case wasnt closed right. The cue fell out of the case and landed right in a puddle that was like 3 inches deep. The cue was literally under water. I took it upstairs to the pool room and dried it off the best I could and went back to playing. the next day I went to Ted Harris' shop and he got the wrap dry for me better (it was still damp). Ted put the cue on the lathe and showed me that the butt was nearly dead straight a few weeks later so no damage from that fiasco.
I'll break with my cue sometimes when I just dont feel like going to get my break cue thats 5 feet away. I know thats extreme laziness, but sometimes I just do it anyways. My personal feeling is that I plan to die owning this cue, so treating it like it some sort of fragile artifact doesnt make sense. Its a fantastic hitting cue and as such I dont see the point in keeping this horse chained in my closet. Run free Szamboti and do what Gus intended you to do.
Kudos to you! I couldn't agree more.
Cues are made to be played with. What's the point of one day finding yourself unable to play the game at all and know that you have cues you never played with?
As great as the legendary cuemakers are...they would be unknowns if no players had used their wares and tested them in battle, that's what created the legends.
I take great care of all my equipment but hey.. sh*t happens...those tiny dings in the butt are the obvious evidence of use. To me, that's like the patina on many other collectables.
Fats
runout1961 said:
Yes, and I do.
I think this is true for the most part but I have never seen a $500 dollar cue play as good as a SouthWest or any of the Kersonbrock based cues. To me if you can't play with a cue it really is not worth anything, but due to theft and like if it is not replaceable IE: Bushka, Szams and so on you have to pick your times to play. I play with my Szamboti when me and the old man go out to play but I play with one of my other cues otherwise and they range from $1000 - $3000 in value. I have played everyday for the last 15 years with a SouthWest that actually got retired this past week because I live in LA now and the chances of it getting stolen are to high.THE FLASH said:
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runout1961 said:
Hard to say, as my cue will only partly fill the description. It cost more than 1,000 USD, but it does not increase in value . It's a good cue, but not from a legendary and sought-after cue-maker.
Anyway, I had it built as a player, and I play with it twice a week - that's as often as I get to play. Wouldn't want to use anything else
Regards,
Detlev
I'm not a person that's into art - if we're going to compare high end cues to paintings. If I wouldn't feel comfortable shooting with a cue because of its value, then I wouldn't buy it because:
A) It would ruin my confidence at the table
B) I would be terrified of it getting stolen/dinged/warped/picked up by a little kid and swung around like a samurai sword (yes this has happened to me and yes, I freaked out :yikes: )
I still think the monetary value of a cue isn't the correct determinant of what I'd be comfortable shooting with though. To echo an earlier post, I wouldn't mind playing with an exceedingly valuable cue so long as it wasn't a highly sought-after collectible.
A) It would ruin my confidence at the table
B) I would be terrified of it getting stolen/dinged/warped/picked up by a little kid and swung around like a samurai sword (yes this has happened to me and yes, I freaked out :yikes: )
I still think the monetary value of a cue isn't the correct determinant of what I'd be comfortable shooting with though. To echo an earlier post, I wouldn't mind playing with an exceedingly valuable cue so long as it wasn't a highly sought-after collectible.
Playing with expensive cues...
If you have a cue that you play well with, it does not matter how much it cost. If you bought it, play with it. Cues are instruments for playing pool, not taking up space in a closet or display case. If you have more than one cue the display case is okay, no body can use more than one cue at a time!
If you have a cue that you play well with, it does not matter how much it cost. If you bought it, play with it. Cues are instruments for playing pool, not taking up space in a closet or display case. If you have more than one cue the display case is okay, no body can use more than one cue at a time!