Had family over for a gathering and later that night one of the kids posted a video to social media showing them "lightsaber dueling" with pool cues at our house. I discovered 4 previously mint cues with dings in them from the ordeal. Thankfully I don't leave our best custom cues out, so those were safe.
In all the years of having my own kids grow up, their friends and countless guests over, a light saber sword duel with my pool cues had never occurred. The 2 McDermotts had not even been chalked yet.
One of the boys felt bad and bought me a cheap replacement cue off of amazon, which I appreciated the gesture. His parents have no idea that it was $1000 of cues damaged, and I'm ok with that. It's a game room and I know the risks, this is just one I didn't expect to have happen.
>>>Are they worth fixing or just chalk it up to experience and let guests play with dinged up cues? Any shops you can just mail the shafts to and have them work magic with steam as I've read is possible? This happened 6 months ago, so I don't know if that makes it harder to remove dents or not.
1x Meucci break cue ($300-400) - 1-2 dings in shaft. Usable but annoying and it was a gift.
2x brand new McDermott Star Hustler S67 and S69 (Red and blue sneaky pete styles) $200 each - Many dings in shafts
1x Dufferin sneaky pete that I've owned and used since the 1990's - Sentimental value - Many dings in shaft
I don't mind sharing this entertaining video since it's blurry enough to be anonymized.
In all the years of having my own kids grow up, their friends and countless guests over, a light saber sword duel with my pool cues had never occurred. The 2 McDermotts had not even been chalked yet.
One of the boys felt bad and bought me a cheap replacement cue off of amazon, which I appreciated the gesture. His parents have no idea that it was $1000 of cues damaged, and I'm ok with that. It's a game room and I know the risks, this is just one I didn't expect to have happen.
>>>Are they worth fixing or just chalk it up to experience and let guests play with dinged up cues? Any shops you can just mail the shafts to and have them work magic with steam as I've read is possible? This happened 6 months ago, so I don't know if that makes it harder to remove dents or not.
1x Meucci break cue ($300-400) - 1-2 dings in shaft. Usable but annoying and it was a gift.
2x brand new McDermott Star Hustler S67 and S69 (Red and blue sneaky pete styles) $200 each - Many dings in shafts
1x Dufferin sneaky pete that I've owned and used since the 1990's - Sentimental value - Many dings in shaft
I don't mind sharing this entertaining video since it's blurry enough to be anonymized.
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