I was thinking the same thing.
Best Playing Cue on the Planet
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I was thinking the same thing.
I wonder what percentage of the players would think like this? Another part of me doesn't care about the looks, just the performance.
Lets be honest though...
If the best playing cue was also the ugliest.....no one would ever find out how it plays.
Lets be honest though...
If the best playing cue was also the ugliest.....no one would ever find out how it plays.
What would one more cue mean to you? :grin:
The best playing cue on the planet could be the reverse of that $200 bottle of wine on the table, you know, like, this is why I need to buy another expensive and beautiful cue.
It would be priceless.
1. On one hand, it is so ugly you would not have to worry about it getting stolen. Ha!
2. Being so ugly, all the credit would go the shooter & not the 'arrow'.
3. I'd probably win so much money with it, that I might shellac it in hundred dollar bills.
But no...I would not want to change even one thing about it. I'd play it till the tip falls off. (& would probably put it back on) I'd even start shooting center cue ball if I started to miscue because of the tip being worn. I would not even clean it for fear off altering it.
I would probably sleep with it instead of my wife. No...she's pricless too!
I guess it would be three(3) in the bed.
I actually missed out on a cue once because it was trimmed in pink. I went back to buy it but it was sold. I was a macho fool!
1. On one hand, it is so ugly you would not have to worry about it getting stolen. Ha!
2. Being so ugly, all the credit would go the shooter & not the 'arrow'.
3. I'd probably win so much money with it, that I might shellac it in hundred dollar bills.
But no...I would not want to change even one thing about it. I'd play it till the tip falls off. (& would probably put it back on) I'd even start shooting center cue ball if I started to miscue because of the tip being worn. I would not even clean it for fear off altering it.
I would probably sleep with it instead of my wife. No...she's pricless too!
I guess it would be three(3) in the bed.
I actually missed out on a cue once because it was trimmed in pink. I went back to buy it but it was sold. I was a macho fool!
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What I meant was... could you even hit balls with a cue that nasty? Much less pay for it, much less pay a lot for it?
If it's still basically a 'normal cue', and not covered in fur or smelly or whatever... what could make it ugly to the point where you just refuse to be seen in public with it?
I'm thinking we have to go beyond tacky and into something actively offensive. A cue shaped like a giant dong. Or perhaps with kiddie porn printed on it. Or "Osama was a hero" or something like that.
If the cue isn't offensive, merely goofy looking, my personal number is $300. Currently about $250 is the most I'm willing to spend on pool (current cue was a gift and I spent 220 on the shaft... current jump cue was a gift also. Case was $10, last case was a gift)... so I'm willing to step a little out of my financial comfort zone and go up to 300 with the reasoning that if it's just too goofy to shoot with it, someone else will buy it for at least that much.
Ugly is in the eye of the beholder.
Your price range seems quite low to me but that's why I am asking.
Thanks for all of the responses.
With the cue being so ugly, you would most likely get lots of action but when they found out it was the best playing cue on earth, they would quit you, try to buy it from you, steal it from your car or just knock you in the head and take it from you. :grin:
Well, there's another reason I'm lowballing it. It has to do with how much you believe in the indian vs. the arrow.
To me, the way it works is... there's a bare minimum of quality needed for the cue to be usable. And there's another requirement that the weight and the deflection aren't wildly different from what the player prefers.
You pass those two tests, then it's 99% player and only 1% cue.
So I'm not willing to bust the bank just to improve my play by a max of 1%.
Especially considering that I can improve by much more than that, for free, by just getting out and practicing more.
To me, the way it works is... there's a bare minimum of quality needed for the cue to be usable. And there's another requirement that the weight and the deflection aren't wildly different from what the player prefers.
You pass those two tests, then it's 99% player and only 1% cue.
So I'm not willing to bust the bank just to improve my play by a max of 1%.
Especially considering that I can improve by much more than that, for free, by just getting out and practicing more.
Good points, (none of which are lost on me) although I would guess that at the higher levels of play, the best playing cue may be of great importance and a "must-have" for players seeking to obtain every edge available.
Guess its me
Ok, I'll be the freak
(since no-one else stepped-up).
YES, I would buy it and Iwould use it. I mean what's wrong with it??? (I don't have to make love to it right ?!?). I get tired of it, I go and get a beer or socialize.
So what if it has hair and feels a lil strange. (I draw the line at profane now!) If when I aim that cue and it does/goes Exactly where,what I want it to do,...... it could have legs and walk to the next OB for all I care! (Can I shampoo the hairy wrap??) Just think of your opponents how psyched they'll be when I stroke that orange-zebra handled wooly-mammoth wrapped cue and the hair sweeps the felt clean!
Just think: you could have a fire and run out the place and not have any regrets why you didn't give the darned thing a thought! :grin-square:
There could be a power failure and no-one but you would find their cue.
I think it would have novelty value :groucho:
Ok, I'll be the freak
(since no-one else stepped-up). YES, I would buy it and Iwould use it. I mean what's wrong with it??? (I don't have to make love to it right ?!?). I get tired of it, I go and get a beer or socialize.
So what if it has hair and feels a lil strange. (I draw the line at profane now!) If when I aim that cue and it does/goes Exactly where,what I want it to do,...... it could have legs and walk to the next OB for all I care! (Can I shampoo the hairy wrap??) Just think of your opponents how psyched they'll be when I stroke that orange-zebra handled wooly-mammoth wrapped cue and the hair sweeps the felt clean!
Just think: you could have a fire and run out the place and not have any regrets why you didn't give the darned thing a thought! :grin-square:
There could be a power failure and no-one but you would find their cue.
I think it would have novelty value :groucho:I would pay whatever I had to to get it.
Looks doesn't matter,in fact I play with the ugliest cue in action.
Joey,
And then I'd have to sleep with just my wife. Oh well, like I said she's priceless too. Thanks for the chuckle.
How was the tournament @ Big Easy? I have not seen or heard anything.
Me too...and the best part is that it was FREE, because you won it in a contest! LOL
Scott Lee
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Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com
Just dress to match the cue!
That might improve the player's behavior, him knowing that he and his best playing cue on the planet are the scourge of society and any bad moves by his ugly self and he is out the door.
She looks alot a better since her Vasectomy.To bad I have a ''Nut'' allergy:wink:
