Well I just watched a guy(yes, alcohol was involved) stick his cue up into a ceiling fan and ruin the shaft. Anyone have some stories of broken bent cues?
Broken cue stories anyone???
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My friend missed an easy shot and like he always does, took his cue and pretended to snap it over his knee...This time He screwed up and accidently broke his cue in half..It was and wasn't funny.....
Back in 81, was playing a guy I thought I should beat ( don't we all?) lost a couple sets. He quit, which was ok with me at the time. I walk outside and baseball swing my cue against a fire hydrant. It was one of those around midway moments you were regretting it.
Get home open my little vinyl case and there's no damage. Swore I would never do that again , and to this day haven't. Stupid to damage your or anyone else's property.
"It's only a stupid game"
Get home open my little vinyl case and there's no damage. Swore I would never do that again , and to this day haven't. Stupid to damage your or anyone else's property.
"It's only a stupid game"
yeah man!!! those ceiling fans are hell!! been there done that
and yes, it was an alcohol related incident
i had to take about 3/4mm off to get past the dents :grin:
I once watched a money game where the guy (Drew) that was sure he was gonna win didn't. He was a young kid 15 or 16, good player and probably should have won. He fires an air barrel and loses. Phil, the winner asks to be paid and gets the bad news and gets pretty upset. He yanks Drew's cue out of his hand and starts to chase him around the pool hall. Drew grabs the corner of a table to make a fast tight turn and Phil swings the cue, *WACK!* breaks Drew's hand and the shaft. Drew makes it to the door and out and Phil throws the cue (or what's left of it) at Drew as he exits. So I pick it up, Phil heads to the bar. Out of breath, he wishes he hadn't broken the cue, so I offer to buy the beer if I can take the cue. I go to a local guy, have him cut a valley in half and make a $25 shaft for it. It turns out to be a hell of a player. So I sold it to Phil for $100, it's 20 years later and he's still using it, same shaft.
Snapped Shaft
I missed an easy shot and got up from the table and kind of waived my Joss above my head, kind of like a sword chop. Unfortunately, I am pretty tall and I was wearing a cap and didnt see the smoke eater. I watched half my shaft go bouncing down the aisle in disbelief. Everyone in the place stopped like the scene from Animal House. The bad part was back then was to get a new shaft wasnt nearly as easy as it is now so I wound up just giving the butt to a teamate later on who also played with a Joss.
I missed an easy shot and got up from the table and kind of waived my Joss above my head, kind of like a sword chop. Unfortunately, I am pretty tall and I was wearing a cap and didnt see the smoke eater. I watched half my shaft go bouncing down the aisle in disbelief. Everyone in the place stopped like the scene from Animal House. The bad part was back then was to get a new shaft wasnt nearly as easy as it is now so I wound up just giving the butt to a teamate later on who also played with a Joss.
In the 80's before I ever got my first cue lathe I was at a friends house who had just started repairing cues. He promised to sand my 13.5mm Schon shaft down to 13mm before we went to a tournament that night. He kept putting it off and then just told me to do it myself. So I put my shaft on the joint screw he provided and put the little bitty live center on the tip and started sanding away. Well the sandpaper snagged and threw the shaft out of the live center and snapped the first several inches of the shaft off. I had been selling cues and doing tips by hand before that and people called me the Cue Man. So after that my friend started calling me the Break Cue Man. :smile:
I wound up buying that lathe from him and heavily modifying it for cue work and then started selling cue lathes. One of the first inventions I came up with was the lathe pin that had a shoulder on it so the shaft could not slip backwards and a large concaved live center that held the tip more securely. That was around 1987 and I have not made that same mistake since.
I wound up buying that lathe from him and heavily modifying it for cue work and then started selling cue lathes. One of the first inventions I came up with was the lathe pin that had a shoulder on it so the shaft could not slip backwards and a large concaved live center that held the tip more securely. That was around 1987 and I have not made that same mistake since.
Years ago, I snapped my cue...well, decades ago. I had a merry widow in a soft case. Borrowed my mother's car. Tossed cue & case on the floor behind the seat...then shoved the seat to my usual full back position. That's when I heard the snap...
If only I'd placed the cue & case ON the back seat. :frown:
If only I'd placed the cue & case ON the back seat. :frown:
Case of flying cues...
One night, a few years back, a teammate of mine on our league team, got pretty frustrated at the conditions of a certain table at a bar that we were playing at. It is a pretty awful table. But, at the end of his match, a ball rolled out terribly. He lost the game, and the match. He calmly loaded his cues into his case. Then, without warning, launched his 4x8 Murnak case, filled with several thousand dollars worth of cues, twenty feet across the room. It crashed into the front door and actually knocked the door open. Nothing was damaged(besides his pride), but, the recipe was certainly there. Nobody lets him live it down. Whenever there is a bad roll, or a dead rail, etc., we always wait for "The Case Toss" (as it is now known), and the whole team will duck at once....
One night, a few years back, a teammate of mine on our league team, got pretty frustrated at the conditions of a certain table at a bar that we were playing at. It is a pretty awful table. But, at the end of his match, a ball rolled out terribly. He lost the game, and the match. He calmly loaded his cues into his case. Then, without warning, launched his 4x8 Murnak case, filled with several thousand dollars worth of cues, twenty feet across the room. It crashed into the front door and actually knocked the door open. Nothing was damaged(besides his pride), but, the recipe was certainly there. Nobody lets him live it down. Whenever there is a bad roll, or a dead rail, etc., we always wait for "The Case Toss" (as it is now known), and the whole team will duck at once....
Hot head
I forgot that I watched a guy snap a middle of the road Meucci on the floor after I beat him out of $100 back in 95. He was this tatted up kid who was showing out for his stripper girlfriend. Didnt like the fact that he lost to a 30 year old banker in a tie.
$100 on the set
$250 on the cue
$20 table time
the incredibly stupid look on his face when the forearm and joint exploded from contact: priceless
I forgot that I watched a guy snap a middle of the road Meucci on the floor after I beat him out of $100 back in 95. He was this tatted up kid who was showing out for his stripper girlfriend. Didnt like the fact that he lost to a 30 year old banker in a tie.
$100 on the set
$250 on the cue
$20 table time
the incredibly stupid look on his face when the forearm and joint exploded from contact: priceless
This cue had the same story. I bought it off the guy for $30 as I've always liked that particular Meucci design. It was an Oldie Series with the SS joint. I asked Ryan Theewen to fix it with a 3/8ths-10 and build it up to .840 joint so that it could fit aftermarket shafts that I already have.
I'd send you to a link that shows the amazing step by step repair by Ryan, but that might be a violation of the site rules.
I have more broken photos, but you get the idea.
So, the story is about the repair.
Freddie <~~~ fan of Ryan's work
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I've had a guy break his cue after I beat him in a tournament. I've also had a guy break his cue after I beat him one game in league. I played a mean-nothing tournament where a guy quit after I was up 7-0 in a race to 8, and he proceeded to go into the parking lot and beat up on his Tim Scruggs.
I was at a pool hall where a guy kept standing his cue in his chair between the seat and the seat back. Eventually, he sat down and broke it. Darwin and all.
I've also seen a league player javelin his cue across two rooms. Nothing broke. It was a McDermott.
Freddie <~~~ common denominator
I'm embarrassed to admit that I've broken two house cues. One in the dorms at college, I broke it by dropping it flat on the floor. I felt pretty bad about that. Then at the university union pool room, I rainbowed an house cue just a bit too far and.... SNAP! Never rainbowing a cue again!
There was also a time at the Jointed cue in Sacramento where a guy lost 100 dollars in 3-cushion and did his best impression of "HULK SMASH!" straight on the ground. He left the pieces of the shaft, and I made a key chain from the first few inches of tip. Lucky Me.
There was also a time at the Jointed cue in Sacramento where a guy lost 100 dollars in 3-cushion and did his best impression of "HULK SMASH!" straight on the ground. He left the pieces of the shaft, and I made a key chain from the first few inches of tip. Lucky Me.
Same thing happened to me but I wasn't doing the work. A highly skilled cuemaker was replacing a tip on my Dieckman (wood pin shaft). Tip came off the center and snap, there goes the shaft flying across the room missing a pin.
Another time ( the friendly guy that I am) a friend came up with a Dieckman butt and asked if he could borrow a shaft. Sure. I screw it in and its a little tight at the end. Not uncommon. Then really tight. I take it out and find I broke 3 or 4 of the threads off. Find out my pin is a different pitch than this older butt.
First cue I saw get busted was the bottom of the butt section over some guys head who wouldnt pay after a lost game.............................$2.00 for a beer. The guy that got the cue over the head was on the floor and out for quite a while in a rather large puddle of blood. Ambulance took him away. The breaker of the cue over the head got beat up pretty good by bleeding heads buddy. He was up against the cigarette machine but he blocked the majority of the blows with his face. His nose must have been broken at least, probably at least loosened some teeth and required stitches, he took quite a beating. He was chauffeured away in the back seat of a squad. Still a $2.00 game of pool. 
Second cue was an early Runde/Schon, my friend was playing his wife, he lost again, she is/was not good, so he hits the Runde/Schon against the steel pole in the basement. As expected he broke the shaft, but he also broke the butt at the joint and also through the lower part of the forearm right above the handle. That game was for ..................you guessed it, FREE!!!!!!!:rotflmao1::rotflmao1::rotflmao1:
He bought a CX83, I asked him to sell it to me before he broke it, he wont sell, I will just wait till he breaks this one and get it for free too I guess.
Second cue was an early Runde/Schon, my friend was playing his wife, he lost again, she is/was not good, so he hits the Runde/Schon against the steel pole in the basement. As expected he broke the shaft, but he also broke the butt at the joint and also through the lower part of the forearm right above the handle. That game was for ..................you guessed it, FREE!!!!!!!:rotflmao1::rotflmao1::rotflmao1:
He bought a CX83, I asked him to sell it to me before he broke it, he wont sell, I will just wait till he breaks this one and get it for free too I guess.
A fella on our team, we will call him John to protect the guilty, was having a terrible night. He was missing everything; must have been out of alignment with the shot everytime or something like that because I never saw John miss so many easy shots like that before. As the evening continued he was getting more and more frustrated and finally down right angry. After a bit he managed to start making shots and was on the eight ball in his last match of the night; the eight ball was around the head spot and the cue ball was up close to the rail around the side pocket. Of course he missed the shot and was so angry he wacked the end of his cue on the middle of the table and broke the entire ferrel and tip off of the shaft. Everybody got real quiet because he had just ruined a $200 shaft and was pretty embarassed about the whole episode.
So Hal, another of our teammates, tried to break the tension by deflecting attention from John with a little unrelated converstion about this and that. Hal, while studying his cue tip, said he thought he should get it replaced. It was then I could not help myself and said "I'll bet John can get that tip off for you." Everyone justed busted a gut except for John of course. I hope John has forgiven me but I could not help myself. I don't know if this came across as funny as it really was; maybe you would have had to have been there to appreciate the moment.
So Hal, another of our teammates, tried to break the tension by deflecting attention from John with a little unrelated converstion about this and that. Hal, while studying his cue tip, said he thought he should get it replaced. It was then I could not help myself and said "I'll bet John can get that tip off for you." Everyone justed busted a gut except for John of course. I hope John has forgiven me but I could not help myself. I don't know if this came across as funny as it really was; maybe you would have had to have been there to appreciate the moment.
I remember back in the 60's when me and a good friend was playing 6 ball for 5 cents a game and double on a run. My friend had just bought a brand new Willy Hoppe cue stick for a whopping $29.00. He missed an easy 4 ball on his run out and got really pissed and smacked his new cue on the table and busted it into about 20 pieces. He laughed about it and walked up to the counter and bought another one. Maybe it wasn't about the 10 cents he could have made on the run out. :smile:
Used to be a guy who came in the Congress we called Crazy Bruce. He used to come around the Tommy Halladay Not sure of the spelling. He broke like 10 or 15 cues one night and just kept paying for them and getting another. At one point he had collected all the loose cues in the room and had them in the tables next to him as he kept playing with different cues.
He had already broken his personal much earlier . It is hard to tell stories about Crazy Bruce as no matter what you tell people it is too hard to believe. I saw him punch himself in the face and knock himself unconscious. I didn't even think that was possible.