Cue Design: Unpopular opinion?

scottypinthemix

scottypinthemix

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Maybe because I started playing in the 80s. Maybe I'm stuck in time. I don't know, but I am forever going to be a fiend for ebony points and a white with black speckle linen wrap. That seems to be a less popular aesthetic as of late.
I don't like the leathers wraps. The cue I have now is wrapped in black with white linen and I do like the way it looks, but I am inevitably going to have to snatch one up that appeals to my 'stuck in the past' taste.
Am I alone in this?
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scottypinthemix said:
Maybe because I started playing in the 80s. Maybe I'm stuck in time. I don't know, but I am forever going to be a fiend for ebony points and a white with black speckle linen wrap. That seems to be a less popular aesthetic as of late.
I don't like the leathers wraps. The cue I have now is wrapped in black with white linen and I do like the way it looks, but I am inevitably going to have to snatch one up that appeals to my 'stuck in the past' taste.
Am I alone in this?
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I think we will see more dark cue butts to go with the CF shafts. The green is what I wouldn't play with, bad ju-ju.

Hu
 
As you’re new here you’ll find a lot of threads that echo your sentiments, not regarding points, more succinctly reflecting people like what they like, and we’re all different.

You like linen, a lot of people do, I can’t play with it, or a wrap less cue, I like leather wraps, which you don’t like. Moral of the story? Preferences in cues differ just as people do. Although I’ll agree with Hu’s assessment in his post about all that green in your cue. As he said, bad juju.
 
ShootingArts said:
I think we will see more dark cue butts to go with the CF shafts. The green is what I wouldn't play with, bad ju-ju.

Hu
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Where did that come from? Is that like green race car superstition? I like some green in the veneers sometimes and have a plain birdseye with green and white rings, a couple with white and green speck wrap. Had one with some malachite, but let it go; not sure I like the malachite in cues now.
 
scottypinthemix said:
Maybe because I started playing in the 80s. Maybe I'm stuck in time. I don't know, but I am forever going to be a fiend for ebony points and a white with black speckle linen wrap. That seems to be a less popular aesthetic as of late.
I don't like the leathers wraps. The cue I have now is wrapped in black with white linen and I do like the way it looks, but I am inevitably going to have to snatch one up that appeals to my 'stuck in the past' taste.
Am I alone in this?
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At one time I had black with green speck linen. All gone and most likely not available.
 
My C 18 McDermott cue has green speck linen and a small amount of green along with a green shamrock when I was playing with that cue on a regular basis people hated it as id tell them it had special powers because of the shamrock on it !
 
JPB2 said:
Where did that come from? Is that like green race car superstition? I like some green in the veneers sometimes and have a plain birdseye with green and white rings, a couple with white and green speck wrap. Had one with some malachite, but let it go; not sure I like the malachite in cues now.
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Started with race cars for me. You need all the luck you can get, at least no bad luck. Fireball Roberts was killed driving a green car. Two other people at almost the same time both had green on their cars when they were killed or injured badly. It was twenty years or more before there was green on a stock car again. Freddy Fryer a legend short tracking that did a little big track and Indy driving was very superstitious about it. I have seen him load up all of his equipment and move to the other end of the pits because somebody parked a green truck next to his car. Peanuts are bad luck too. Somebody threw some peanut hulls in Freddy's car. Freddy knocked the offender ass over teakettle then made his crew take the seat out of his car and be damned sure there were no peanut hulls left in it.

I got caught late at my shop one day. Didn't notice I was wearing a green T-shirt until I got to the track. Couldn't buy a shirt without green. When I got home I threw away every piece of green clothing I had!

I have competed at many things including pool, rifles, pistols, cars, and more. No green to be found anywhere. I'm not superstitious but I am a little stitious! No sense taking chances. Fifty years later nothing I own is green, 'cepting a little cash. As much bad luck as I have trying to hold on to that pretty much proves the point!

A track wanted me to run a match race between me and the fastest car and driver in that part of the country. That could be embarrassing but I knew my car owner would be all for it. Sure enough Jr went for it. The other driver came to where I was parked. "No sense running hell out of the cars for six laps for a trophy, let's just run the last two. My car had a leaking head gasket so I was all for the idea.

We lined up and came around the track. As we came out of turn four the flagman threw the GREEN FLAG! Nothing happened. The next lap the flagman is jumping up and down and swinging the GREEN FLAG like he was trying to start the Indy 500. By the third lap just off idle the flagman was just letting the GREEN FLAG hang in despair and three thousand or so fans in the stands were talking about tar and feathers! I started the race with two laps to go and it was nip and tuck. I came in second as I did all night. Better car, better driver, over a hundred inch bigger engine, I was happy to stay on his back bumper as I did all night!

Nothing good about green!

About ebony, I like the look, I don't like that it can be touched up with a sharpie. A long point can be wiped off of a cue in an instant sanding as it comes in from both sides and the bottom. A little work with a sharpie "fixes" the problem. The old masters knew this and it wasn't an uncommon trick. Somebody on here had a cue built by one of the old masters refinished in the shop of another cue builder that had been at it for many years. When the builder sanded the cue and found a point missing he used a sharpie and didn't say anything about it. Digital camaras and computer screens show things at 50x magnification that can't be seen with a 6x loupe. Major stink!

Hu
 
I didn’t know the reasons behind the race car superstition, just knew there was one. But Skoal and Mountain Dew didn’t seem to lack drivers willing to take the sponsor $. 😉
 
garczar said:
That was true up until the 60's when sponsorship $$$$$ meant way more than lame superstition.








Roberts died in 1964. I think it was Darrell Waltrip that broke the green superstition, maybe with a gatoraid car that was green and white. Been a long time and my memory ain't as sharp as it could be. There were a few green cars in local racing when I started, no serious racers had green on their cars. Mine were close to STP red. My benchrest gun was the same color and my racehorse was a sorrel.

I can't think of one good reason to have anything green that I am competing with. A multi-million dollar sponsor might change my mind. Some people did lose out on pretty major sponsorships for refusing to drive a car with green on it.

Hu
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ShootingArts said:
Losing an argument with the forum trying to reply. Anyway, Roberts died in 1964. I think it was over a decade before a major stockcar team used green in their color scheme. I could have painted my first stock car green but painting it green to defy superstition was even sillier than following the superstition.

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I like classic timeless designs.

I also like some period 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's stuff that is more of the period.

This synthetic painted stuff I don't get. People paying huge amounts for a cue because it is painted a certain color? Nuts as far as I am concerned.
 
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