It’s funny nowadays when someone walks in with their sneaky, and really meaning for it to be a sneaky but there are no house cues in the place except for the ones you rent behind the bar for $1.00. They are a two piece with a white butt. The sneaky is the only cue that stands out in the whole place
21st century sneaky pete???
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That does not describe the places where I play. Rather they have racks of house cues all over the hall.
Dave
My 2 cents....
Perhaps someone could paint the whyte and clear over it?
On a bar table, search cluelessly for the rack. Then rack one handed holding a drink in the free hand.
You’re not fooling anyone in a pool room, so, if you can’t beat drunk non-players with a house cue, you need to reevaluate what you’re doing.
I don't think there's much either/or there. American pool players were all predators. The best - maybe the only preparation for the winner's circle was heavy action.
in the right spots you can win more than most tournaments pay out except for some at first place or so.
but back to sneaky's. just any plain jane looking cue is best . all you do if you make it full of stickers or such you stand out as a so called hustler as soon as you start making some balls. as even the bad players know that someone with a walmart painted up cue is hustling them.
most times i would tell every one i played that i was a good player. if they are gambling they all play half decent if betting something real. if playing for only drinks or dollars all you are doing is looking for a fight in a bar.
but back to sneaky's. just any plain jane looking cue is best . all you do if you make it full of stickers or such you stand out as a so called hustler as soon as you start making some balls. as even the bad players know that someone with a walmart painted up cue is hustling them.
most times i would tell every one i played that i was a good player. if they are gambling they all play half decent if betting something real. if playing for only drinks or dollars all you are doing is looking for a fight in a bar.
suckers call gamblers hustlers. gamblers are just those that want to bet something and not play for kicks.
and when you gamble at something you are trying to win their money. and they are doing that to you. so how you act and what you do you tailor to the situation to keep him playing.
cheating is something gamblers don't do. those are cheaters not gamblers or hustlers. even some fun players will cheat you to win to stroke their ego. .
and when you gamble at something you are trying to win their money. and they are doing that to you. so how you act and what you do you tailor to the situation to keep him playing.
cheating is something gamblers don't do. those are cheaters not gamblers or hustlers. even some fun players will cheat you to win to stroke their ego. .
I’ll take some pics of a SP cue I purchased from a fellow Azer. It was a bargain too good to pass up.
It looks just like a brand new house cue you’d expect to see in a new pool hall that recently opened.
IMO, this is the ideal travel cue for a plane trip, APA or BCA type leagues and makes things worry free.
Thanks Mike. Schmelke really does make a nice pool cue. My closest friend has 2 Schmelke KW shafts.
It looks just like a brand new house cue you’d expect to see in a new pool hall that recently opened.
IMO, this is the ideal travel cue for a plane trip, APA or BCA type leagues and makes things worry free.
Thanks Mike. Schmelke really does make a nice pool cue. My closest friend has 2 Schmelke KW shafts.
Don't forget to brag as soon as you become SL7, you plan to go pro.
When I had my cue shop my sister bought one of the dirt cheap Bud cues for under ten bucks complete with ripped vinyl case. One day I was bored around the shop and went to work on the bud cue. Bored the butt as deeply as I could and put a hard maple dowel and 3/8-10 quality pin in then I turned a shaft for it. Some two or three inch wide black plastic tape to patch the case, a little black sharpie over the missing black on the cue and I was ready to go!
I selected a pub about seven miles from my shop where I wasn't known. Uncased the cue and didn't have it screwed together before a half dozen kids were asking if they could look at my sneaky! It did play considerably better than it did when new but still a long ways from a decent cue. You can make a purse out of a sow's ear but not a silk purse!
I was at Academy and saw some cheap cues that lit up with rolling dice or something else I forget at the moment when you shot. They were under twenty bucks and I was sorely tempted to buy one to build another sneaky out of. I figured people at other tables would bitch with good cause about the cue lighting up every time I shot so I never got around to that project.
I practiced a little with a kid that had all kinds of patches and decals on his case. APA, BCA, Tap, I don't know what all. Made me tempted to join a league for a couple weeks to get a stack of break and run patches and such, would look great on my case! Not willing to mess up the finish on my case so I had to give up on the idea, still it is tempting. Maybe when I find a cheap case I like I will get enough decals and such to hold it together!
Hu
I selected a pub about seven miles from my shop where I wasn't known. Uncased the cue and didn't have it screwed together before a half dozen kids were asking if they could look at my sneaky! It did play considerably better than it did when new but still a long ways from a decent cue. You can make a purse out of a sow's ear but not a silk purse!
I was at Academy and saw some cheap cues that lit up with rolling dice or something else I forget at the moment when you shot. They were under twenty bucks and I was sorely tempted to buy one to build another sneaky out of. I figured people at other tables would bitch with good cause about the cue lighting up every time I shot so I never got around to that project.
I practiced a little with a kid that had all kinds of patches and decals on his case. APA, BCA, Tap, I don't know what all. Made me tempted to join a league for a couple weeks to get a stack of break and run patches and such, would look great on my case! Not willing to mess up the finish on my case so I had to give up on the idea, still it is tempting. Maybe when I find a cheap case I like I will get enough decals and such to hold it together!
Hu
Back in 1999/2000 I went to a UCLA hospital for rotations in med school. I drove there from PA, great trip, and the trip back was even better. In all of my travels I had taken my Joss but this time for some reason I didn't. And of course it turned out the hospital had a pool table in one of the break rooms! A 9 foot GC!
So, I found a local pool and billiard store and bout a sneaky. It was a J&J and it has a 5/16x14 piloted joint. I still have it today, it was the third cue I ever bought. Honestly, I was really surprised. It was a nice cue, nice finish, nice taper, nice wood... Played nice and of course still does.
I have picked up a couple or three additional sneakies like a Dufferin with a piloted 5/16x14 pin. Had to grab that, unusual pin for those cues.
I guess ya just gotta dig a nice sneaky. It's not that they are "sneaky", it's just all value because it's just all cue, no frills.
Somewhere in the Cue Gallery here, years ago, someone showed off a Budweiser cue "conversion". I couldn't find it in a quick search but it was done and done well. I believe it was completely taken apart, cored, new joint, and of course a good custom shaft. On the outside, at a glance, it looked darn near 100% like the cheap Budweiser cue it started out as.
That would be the one on the left. All are Sugartree.
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I should have painted the outside of the tip with a sharpie to hide the layers but the kids suspected a sneaky from across the room. I guess even those many years ago I didn't look like the kind of guy to own a ten dollar cue. Might have had a better chance late night too, it was still daylight outside when I tried it. I had just completed it and was curious how it would hit. I just put in four inch or so dowel rather than completely coring the butt but I think the soft butt wood and lousy thread wrap would still have it playing poorly. With the good shaft and joint, I changed collars too, it pocketed balls OK, just seemed like a major disconnect between my grip hand and the tip. I like a softish hit but this cue felt plain mushy. Hard to describe.
Hu