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If circumstances changed and there was a terrible hardship that had to be dealt with, and great sacrifice was needed, like say for one of my children,
I'd sell all my cues, guns, watches & jewelry as would I'd like to think every parent would do.

But I'd keep at least one pool cue for me.....for my future play after this circumstances had been resolved and I'd also retain a gold ID bracelet my mom
gave me as a birthday gift in 1969. And one handgun......sell all my rifles and other handguns & collectible knives except for one special one.

After writing that, I really can't say which cue I'd keep.......probably my most recent one from Bob and the jewelry pick was easy but the knife pick is harder.
Probably my '85 custom from Blackie Collins or my David Boye '78. The hardest pick would be my gun......gotta be my P-12 or F-92 (13 rds .45 cal versus
16 rds 9mm)......probably the .45 for the raw stopping power......but the slide on the Beretta is the absolutely best I've ever seen....whew.....sweet action.

Matt B.
 
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I was lucky enough to get back my first cue I ever designed in AutoCAD 2.4 back in 1988, I was also able to own the only cue I knew growing up, my uncles Gus Szamboti. I've dealt a lot of cues and the only cue I absolutely loved the way it played was a Bushka that supposedly belonged to Mike Carella.

JV
 
There's only one cue I'd strongly consider buying back, but I can always order a new one of similar specification if I feel like it (it was a Josey). I don't believe there is anything inherently magical about a particular cue that I can't find again if I try a few others.

But, there are many times I wondered where my stroke went and would like to get that back ;)
 
I have never had to worry about buying back a cue I sold. In all the years I have played I have maybe sold a half dozen cues. But they were cues that never matched my favorite best hitting cues. Those I continue to own, and don't see myself selling any of those anytime soon. When I sell anything I own, I usually make it a point of selling those items that I am not going to worry about missing once the item is gone. That way I don't worry about the sale.
 
Yes, I sold a David Howard Meucci years back (DH3) that I would love to get my hands on. I have tried, but have never been able to get the guy to sell it.
 
BugHunter said:
Yes, I sold a David Howard Meucci years back (DH3) that I would love to get my hands on. I have tried, but have never been able to get the guy to sell it.
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I say keep trying. You never know when you might run into the guy and he might be having money problems or he's playing bad with the cue that day or whatever reason and want to sell it. I recently bought back my Jensen matched set and couldn't be happier!


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2 cues I wish I had back , Kersenbrock 9 point with 4 shafts that I got from the HIT Man, and a wrapless SW that was made for Jimmy Mataya . Big John Machesney got the first and Lil' Gilbert won 3 Texas Opens with the second .Big John was in a bind with a guy from Florida who traded a Kersenbrock for a Gina , Big John already sold the Gina when the guy sent back the Kersenbrock saying it wasn't fancy enough , so we did a deal and I got the wrapless SW and a future ebony nosed SW . Big John passed away before I got the other SW . Big John was a cool dude and could play ... All I can say is God Bless ...;)
 
Most definitely, my Judd jt-1. Its wrapless with amboyna burl handle and highly figured birdseye maple with brass rings with 3/8x10 pin and 60 inches in length...This cue has a ton of sentimental value to me..had to sell her due to financial hardships...
 
runout1961 said:
Hey folks, back in 2010 I sold a matched set of cues to a buddy of mine. The player cue was without a doubt one of the best hitting cues I've ever played with. It was instant sellers remorse when I let it go. Now, I have the chance to buy back that player cue and the matching jump break I had built for it.

So there's my question, have you ever sold a cue that you know you shouldn't have let go and would you even think twice about buying it back years later if given the chance?

Edited to add a little more to my post. Back in 2010 I sold my Jensen matched set to someone. Over the past six months or so I've been looking on azb and going through all of my old posts to try and find who I sold it to. The other day I was at a tournament and a friend of mine walks in who I haven't seen or talked to in at least two years. We were talking and he says to me "hey you know I still have the three cues you sold me years ago". I knew of one that he has but I couldn't think of the other two. So I say "three cues?". He says "yeah the one with the ostrich wrap and the two Jensen cues". I said with excitement "the matching Jensen cues?????". He said yes. Long story short we had a good talk and I told him a bunch of memories I had with that player cue. He's a good, honest guy and tells me if I want to buy the cues back he will sell them to me. My buddy is kind of a hoarder when it comes to cues and rarely ever let's anything go. But because of the emotional attachment I have to that matched set he has given me his word and promised that the cues are not going anywhere until I can save up the money to buy them back.

I can post pics of the cues if y'all want me to?

Thanks, John


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Hell NO lol. I had a beautiful 125 inlay beauty loaded w snakewood, ivory and ebony. It was made by one of the greats of the industry who shall remane nameless because of my respect for his work and business character. I now play with a P2 that isnt one of the pretty ones. They painted it PLain black..THe hit doesnt "feel" sweet and awesome or what ever people get all stoked about. What it does have is athletic forward balance, plays good pool and moves the rock staying close to center ball. Its technology my friends. I had a kamui brown hard tip slapped on the P2 and it works consistently well. Why would i want some old fashioned yellow maple shafted dinosaur of a cue? I like winning.
 
yup, bought a teitlest send to tascarella, waited two years, i was laid off at the time and couldnt do it, he offered me $150 for it and i took it out of desperation, regret it to this day.
 
I've sold a few cues over the years. Mostly to friends who needed them. Always at a loss. A few hundred here and there didn't really bother me. Finally I needed money a few years back and sold one of the prettiest SW cues I've seen. Think it was #326-04. A triple veneered ebony into cocobolo beauty. Also sold a great 5 point Gina a few weeks after that. All I was left with was my shooter from college (still have it) When you need money, you need money right? I felt like a total asshole a few months later when my employer offered me a fully paid transfer half way across the nation and a fat check to do so. Really wish I would have seen that coming. Shit, I wish I had my Southwest back.
 
victorl said:
Money comes and goes but once a cue is gone, it's probably gone forever!
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I need to remember this. I think about the amount of cues I'm hoarding and think to myself "I should sell a few of these!" I won't now...

Thanks for that post. I'll never forget it.
 
Cue regret

I went to Richard Black's shop in '82 and ordered the second Hoppe-style 4pt. he made. The first was for some hack named MIZERAK. Cue, 2 shafts w/ivory ferrules and a Fellini case cost me the grand sum of $380bux. Great cue made by maybe the nicest guy in the business. Gave me the grand tour of the shop and made you feel like he wanted to make you a cue. If i knew who had it i'd try to get it back. BTW, a new one is $1800 w/ one shaft.
 
pool cues

After reading these threads I have a Madden for sale that I might just change my mind and keep it.
 
I had a 1993 Schon ltd that I thought was the prettiest cue I had ever seen. Got it in trade in Vegas from Joe. I've posted pix of it looking for some more ID in this forum. I think I relayed in that post that I sold it when I decided to clear house of older cues. After going through a few hands here in Austin, my future father-in-law ended up with it. He surprised me by giving it back to me as a birthday present a couple of years ago. So I have been blessed to get back one of the very few cues I truly had regrets over selling.



The other 2 cues I'd like a chance at are a Libra with a ton of ivory - it had an internal flaw which is why I traded it to Joe for the Schon, and a Hagan cue that had 5 points of different wood, a butt that was a solid thin piece of ebony, and 3 different kinds of bone in the fertile, joint, and butt cap. That one went through a lot of hands in the Austin area and I should have stopped it with mine.



I also had a Richard Black that was my only cue ever custom made for me come back. I sold it out of desperation to a co-worker and 3 years later bought it back for the same price. I got lucky on that one, I'll never part with it again.
 
Cornerstone Cues

In 2005 I had an opportunity to trade up into a really heavy cue, to do this I had to put my first 6 point Black Boar in the trade,purchased right from Tony on March 17, 1995. I made the trade and felt like I had just lost my best friend.It took about a year before I made up my mind to try and get it back. I live in Ohio and was told the cue now was in a collection in California. Years later the cue went to a collector/player in Maryland, who after owning it for a few years did a cash and trade into a Barry S. The person who now had it was Bill Grassley of Cornerstone Cues. Bill knew I was hunting the cue down and called me , I went right to his home and we made a deal ( Bill really worked with me on this ) to get the cue back into my hands. In it's travels it had been sent back to the Black Boar shop and had an Ivory joint put on along with a refinish with Tony' s signature in the forearm and a new ferruless shaft made for it.I will never trade or sell that cue again, and I could never thank Bill Grassley enough for making it happen.
Thank you Bill Grassley
Frank Orteca
 
My first non bar room wall cue was given to me by my ex about 16 years ago. We split up, I went back to get the rest of my stuff and the cue was gone. Fast forward 14 years... I found it for sell locally. Asked the guy what he knew about it. Said he found it at a pawn shop, took it to a local pool hall and verified it was a good cue (pawn shop didn't know what they had and he got a great deal on it.) The owner said he knew the cue and the guy who used it and even told him the story of how I was drunk one night running racks and slapped a big ding on the butt :sorry: The guy sent it back to the maker to have it restored and you can see where the wood doesn't match exactly.

Anyway I call the guy and talk to him about the cue, go take a few shots with it and walk away with my old cue for a smoking deal.

Now it sits in the closet. My son played a few racks with it when he came to visit and he said he couldn't believe his mother would sell it like that. But he confirmed her side of the story. She said "hell yeah I sold it. I bought it and I wanted my money back."

Funny thing is I bought it back for less than half of what she paid :cool:
 
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