Cue Decision

[TheBook]

There seems to be a lot of threads about buying a cue. What is the real motive behind this question? Making money, appealing to someone else or wanting a good playing cue? Would the answer to the following situation help your decision?

You have narrowed your choice down to 2 cues. One is the original ugly stick that was used on your exwife's medling mother. It looks like a bad imitation of a sneaky pete. The other is a beauty by a famous cue maker selling for $1000 but does not have the feel you are looking for but you know you can flip at anytime getting at least twice the amount you paid. The ugly stick is selling for $800 and is the stick that was made for you. You have been searching for years to find the "perfect" cue and this is it. As soon as you hit a ball with it you knew that this was the cue. You have never felt a cue that felt like this one. It is the magic feather. The problem is if you told anyone that you paid $800 for it they tell you that you really got screwed and then would die from laughter. You know that you will never get your money back if you ever sold it. You have to make a choice. Once you made your choice the other cue destroyed. What cue would you buy and why?

 

[BlowFish]

I will pick the cue that I feel will play well for me. Reason, I'm not a collector and have no funds to do it. Maybe someday in the future, I'll be one.

 

[bruin70]

There seems to be a lot of threads about buying a cue. What is the real motive behind this question? Making money, appealing to someone else or wanting a good playing cue? Would the answer to the following situation help your decision?

............. Once you made your choice the other cue destroyed. What cue would you buy and why?

if you play, you buy the ugly stick because you won't sell it anyway. it's made for you,,,you said. if you don't play, you buy the pretty stick because you don't play, don't care, and will flip it anyway.

 

[drivermaker]

You have narrowed your choice down to 2 cues. One is the original ugly stick that was used on your exwife's medling mother. It looks like a bad imitation of a sneaky pete. The ugly stick is selling for $800 and is the stick that was made for you. You have been searching for years to find the "perfect" cue and this is it. As soon as you hit a ball with it you knew that this was the cue. You have never felt a cue that felt like this one. It is the magic feather. The problem is if you told anyone that you paid $800 for it they tell you that you really got screwed and then would die from laughter. You know that you will never get your money back if you ever sold it. You have to make a choice. Once you made your choice the other cue destroyed. What cue would you buy and why?

I'm not so sure that it works this way. I think over a short period of time our mind plays games that soon tell us that the ugly stick doesn't play as good as you originally thought because the bottom line is you really don't want to be carrying around such an ugly beast to look at, any more than you want to be seen with an ugly woman in public. Besides...they all start shooting crappy sooner or later. (although it's really us that's shooting crappy...we just won't admit to that)

 

[ShootingArts]

"if it doesn't go, chrome it!"

The title is an old saying from the car building days but still applies to anything I compete with. Purty cues are nice to show off but if somebody is a player they want a stick that works.

Of course real world, I'd buy the pretty stick, flip it, and go hunt another stick that played as well as the ugly one!

Hu