BIGGEST REGRET in my cue buying life.
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O that hurts....love the little v8 cars
Two times...
I have two,
February 1988...Leaving my Gus in my car and then from inside the pool hall hearing someones car is on fire outside... yep, it was mine... Lost the cue
A few moths later I bought an ebony nose, rosewood prong Kersenbrock for $375 from John Wright at the Board of Trade in Chicago (we both used to work there)... sold it six moths later for $325...
Getting sick just thinkin' about it...
I have two,
February 1988...Leaving my Gus in my car and then from inside the pool hall hearing someones car is on fire outside... yep, it was mine... Lost the cue
A few moths later I bought an ebony nose, rosewood prong Kersenbrock for $375 from John Wright at the Board of Trade in Chicago (we both used to work there)... sold it six moths later for $325...
Getting sick just thinkin' about it...
cues i regret selling , i once had a pre 93 schon, believe it may have been one of a kind cause i never seen one like it.. needed insurance money... and being i was under 21, it was important to me.. so i sold it to a friend.. turned out i ended up getting paid and having enough money in the end.. he to this day will not sell it back to me.. worst part is.. he no longer plays pool
and cues i regret not buying are a plain 4 point Mottey cue my relative had, he sold it cheap.. i should have bought it but instead i sold it for him and now its long gone to be never seen again...
and as i bring this up to Myron at the expo every year.. long time ago, he offered to once sell me a Showman for at the time was a decent price.. and then a year later they doubled in price.. every year i say to him i can kick myself for not buying it.. he tells me, he kickes himself for selling it..lol
its not about the value of the cue being double that upsets me now.. these days that i still want a showman... and i wish i bought it when i could easily afforded it more.. but then again, back in 2009 i may have ended up selling it because i sold most of my cues to buy a new car... now i am back on track with my collection.. soon to be 11 cues..
chris
and cues i regret not buying are a plain 4 point Mottey cue my relative had, he sold it cheap.. i should have bought it but instead i sold it for him and now its long gone to be never seen again...
and as i bring this up to Myron at the expo every year.. long time ago, he offered to once sell me a Showman for at the time was a decent price.. and then a year later they doubled in price.. every year i say to him i can kick myself for not buying it.. he tells me, he kickes himself for selling it..lol
its not about the value of the cue being double that upsets me now.. these days that i still want a showman... and i wish i bought it when i could easily afforded it more.. but then again, back in 2009 i may have ended up selling it because i sold most of my cues to buy a new car... now i am back on track with my collection.. soon to be 11 cues..
chris
Ouch
Mine is maybe worse. Round about 1973 had my Balabushka stolen off a roped off practice table at the N.Y. State Straight Tourney at the T street Poolroom in Syracuse N.Y.. It was a birthday present. It cost $200 with two shafts.
Nick
I have two,
February 1988...Leaving my Gus in my car and then from inside the pool hall hearing someones car is on fire outside... yep, it was mine... Lost the cue
A few moths later I bought an ebony nose, rosewood prong Kersenbrock for $375 from John Wright at the Board of Trade in Chicago (we both used to work there)... sold it six moths later for $325...
Getting sick just thinkin' about it...
Mine is maybe worse. Round about 1973 had my Balabushka stolen off a roped off practice table at the N.Y. State Straight Tourney at the T street Poolroom in Syracuse N.Y.. It was a birthday present. It cost $200 with two shafts.
Nick
No regrets but came close. I bought a Doc Fry in 1965. I did not use it much and almost sold it. Turned down an offer. I still do not use it. It's not my favorite player
.... Just enjoy owning it. It's staying with me for the rest of the duration.
.... Just enjoy owning it. It's staying with me for the rest of the duration.
15 years ago I accepted a Bob Frey cue as payment for a debt. Ugliest gray stain on forearm I'd ever seen with a linen wrap that didn't match the cue, it was fugly but hit great. Took it to Bob and asked him if we could change things up on it so it wasn't so ugly, he laughed & explained how hard it is sometimes when people with no taste order cues. He restrained it in a beautiful dark brown stain, put a black leather wrap on it & I had him make me a 31" shaft with my favorite ferrule black linen micarta. The cue looked beautiful & played better than before with the forward weight shift the longer shaft gave it. 2 months later a Lambros I ordered was finished & the Frey went in the case in favor of my new acquisition & a player I knew who had been bugging me about buying the Frey caught me at the right moment and I sold it to him, wish I never had. He disappeared off the radar awhile later, so I couldn't even offer to buy it back. I still think about that cue, monster player.
Why am I the Colonel? Because I always get the chicken
Why am I the Colonel? Because I always get the chicken
I know it's not the most popular cue out there but I had a chance to but a gorgeous Samsara cue for about $400 dollars. The guy won it at a tournament years ago. Super simple and elegant design and the retail on it was closer to $1900. I was a poor 17 year old kid with only 100 bucks in my pocket. Man If I could only have scraped up the money back then.
Back in 91 or 92... I took 5 cues as payment....they played good, some had a few inlays...all had maple forearms...a couple had some big pieces of ivory...anyway...I liked the name...then sold them at different pool halls from MO to CO...I got about 500 out of each! Not bad!!....oh the name I liked? Black Boar
While my regrets aren't nearly as bad as most of yours, my main regrets involve waiting lists. As I'm sure a lot of us did, I got into custom cues around 2000 when the 2nd Edition of The Blue Book came out (OH MY GOD! There are so many! And they're awesome!). Why, oh why, didn't I get in on all of the big waiting lists (Hercek, Southwest, Schick, Gina...) back then? They'd all be in by now.
Lack of knowledge/education, I guess. Sure would've been nice, though.
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Lack of knowledge/education, I guess. Sure would've been nice, though.
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Around the time that I bought my Runde, 8/9 years ago, I could have picked up an original Rambo with an ivory buttcap, ivory dots in the buttsleeve and ivory and ebony dots in the forearm for the same price as my Runde. It played amazing, but I wanted something a bit newer. Live and learn.
dont know if this counts since i never bought the cue
but i was on gus szambotis list and was contacted about ordering a cue
before the cue could be started gus passed away ...R.I.P.
barry started fresh and didnt finish the orders of his dad
never got the cue and at the time i didnt order one from barry
i respect his decision and now his cues are out of my price comfort zone
i hope to one day to get a chance to hit with one
but i was on gus szambotis list and was contacted about ordering a cue
before the cue could be started gus passed away ...R.I.P.
barry started fresh and didnt finish the orders of his dad
never got the cue and at the time i didnt order one from barry
i respect his decision and now his cues are out of my price comfort zone
i hope to one day to get a chance to hit with one