Collectors

I like to collect Lincolns. When I get 20 of them I convert them into Grants, when I get enough of them I buy more cues.
 
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JimBo said:
How bout some of those gems that got away.
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My big misses were:

A totally rebuilt, like new condition, Austin Healey Bug-eyed Sprite.
I got to the guy an hour too late.

Also, an original Ford Cobra, 427. It was just sitting in the showroom of a used car dealer. I was 19 and I didn't have two nickles to rub together, let alone enough to buy that car. Now I have the nickles, but I am further away from being able to buy a car like that one.

And yes, I am old enough to remember when Cobra's were available on dealer lots. I guarantee you won't find one today. :(
 
JimBo said:
Ok, it came up in another thread, but I want to test out my theory. I already know the answer for a few people on this forum, but chime in anyway please. I know many of the top cue collectors and most of the have other vices as well, some collect guns, some cars, I've done it all from Comics when I was a kid to sports cards and collectibles, guns, and cues. I think I'm just a born pack rat, how bout the rest of you? Collections? Anyone find it stupid? Anyone wish they had the funds to buy more junk? Is there anyone out there who just lives on the bare minimums, don't keep anything, one cue is all you need, 1 car, any excess gets thrown away?

Jim <---Would love to hear about it
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I'm into "pairs" now Jimbo. Downsized everything to two watches <Omega and a Brietling> two guns <.357 & 12 ga. pump> and two cues <Omen & 35yr old JOSS>.

BUT...I have an affection for guitars and I wont sell one of my dozen or so Fenders or Gibsons :D . I lost 15 guitars in Hurricane Andrew in '92 including a couple of Rickenbackers, 5 Martin D-12's, a late 60's gold top Gibson Les Paul Studio, 4 Stratocasters & 3 Telecasters all from the 60's and my favorite...my Gibson SG 6/12 double neck, boy am I a tortured soul.
 
collections

I used to collect pawn shop tickets, but I quit that when I got beat out of a Martin D-28 for 300 bucks when i thought i had a 90 day ticket instead of a 60 day one.

If i'd ever get any brains, i'd quit collecting speeding tickets...however I lived many years in So Cal, and it's just hard living in a backwoods state that actually believes in the speed limit.

Now I'm starting to collect cues, and billiard related books. I have an extensive library built up of some fairly rare billiard books, and I've recently obtained the next to impossible to find hardcover 2d ed. of the blue book of pool cues which gives me a full set of 1/2/3 in both soft and hardcover
(would consider trading that 6 book set for an interesting cue)......

however the most important collection i have is 6734 days of sobriety which permits me to collect a great relationship with my daughter asia.
 
Like in my name, I have too many bug/VW hotwheels & Matchboxes, close to 300. Some old coins and stamp of little or no value. Some cues and cases from the middle to late 80's. My odd hobby is collecting stereo gear from my late teens and early 20's. I have an oval window in the garage that is ready and wanting for someone to put back together.

Bugs
 
asiasdad said:
I used to collect pawn shop tickets, but I quit that when I got beat out of a Martin D-28 for 300 bucks when i thought i had a 90 day ticket instead of a 60 day one.

If i'd ever get any brains, i'd quit collecting speeding tickets...however I lived many years in So Cal, and it's just hard living in a backwoods state that actually believes in the speed limit.

Now I'm starting to collect cues, and billiard related books. I have an extensive library built up of some fairly rare billiard books, and I've recently obtained the next to impossible to find hardcover 2d ed. of the blue book of pool cues which gives me a full set of 1/2/3 in both soft and hardcover
(would consider trading that 6 book set for an interesting cue)......

however the most important collection i have is 6734 days of sobriety which permits me to collect a great relationship with my daughter asia.
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congrats on the 6734 , its wonderful to see somone come from a un happy place to put somone they love 1st! there are alot of people that spend more time drinking and on the computer than they do with there children! keep up the good work God Bless you
 
Something just for FAST EDDIE :~)

I just need a dirty glass. ;)
 

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briar smoking pipes

Briar smoking pipes.
same as pool cues.
price determined by who carved it, hand or machine made, size, how perfect the grain of the wood.
original sold by mailers like cues now business done on internet and at pipe shows.
 
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