Cue that you regretted selling/losing.

measureman said:
I bought a Palmer back in 1979 from a guy. I don't know what model it was but it had no inlays,titlist points and the clear plastic window had the foil in it with no name. I sold it about a year later for $65 :angry:With a case :mad:
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Water Lock,
How many bottles of Hank's famous water was it worth? He, He, he.
That was your chance to get a lot of Hank's famous bottle water.
Many Regards,
Lock N Load.
 
I regret selling any cue that I used to have! I will never do it again, they all speak to me on a personal level. I snapped a cue once in a rare fit of anger :angry:... That will never happen again, thank goodness that I was able to get a few more shafts for it:D. The only ones I don't regret are the one that I gave to people that I taught to play, played with a lot and they could not afford a new one, ect...:grin-loving:
 
I rembember like it was yesterday. My first playong cue back in 90's was a Shark cue. It costs me 60$ that time and I was pretty happy I have my own cue. It was the most balanced cue I ever touched!!...and still is for me... I loved that cue very much! I have a lot of cues now but what for...
Long story short I ended up losing it in a stupid 8ball game. I was drunk and tired after 10h of playing...
I've tried to find the guy next day but he dissapeared for good.
I will remember that game for the rest of my life.

Chris
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Lost a Scruggs

About 8 or 9 years ago I lost my custom Scruggs cue in Denver, CO. Some place like a Fox & Hound in the Lone Tree area down on Lincoln Ave. Someone took off with my leather bag with my Scruggs, break cue, etc, the whole bag. I loved that cue and it still bothers me to this day. I had gone over in Baltimore and sat down with Tim Scruggs himself and designed my perfect one of one cue. Absolutely perfect, for me. Played like a dream. Had it for only a few years or so before the unthinkable. Sure would love to get that baby back one day. Use another Scruggs today that I bought used, but it's never really quite the same.
 
I regret selling most of my cues.
The 2 I want back the most though would be a bludworth sneaky, and a sly sneaky. Got amazing deals on them. That poor bludworth, I must have tried every tip on the market with that thing. I was maybe a d+ player then, but I learned what I didn't like. The sly I sold to pay a ticket. Seems cops don't like when you go 110 in a 40. I actually bought the sly back and sold it again last year to a local player that never plays. Its a shame that sly plays jam the f up. But that bludworth, that was my first cue not named players or lucasi. Got me hooked on big pin into wood. Best combo ever!
 
Cory barnhart one piece braz rosewood butt...18,8 oz.. 2 shaft... damn,,, i want that cue back....that s a very very nice cue to play with...
 
i've been trying to replace it ever since
 

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Greg Hearn

I can understand why you would be missing that cue. Its a shame he passed he made some great looking and great hitting cues.

That 1st cue in my avatar is 1 greg made

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pinoyincalgary said:
Please share if you ever had a cue that you regretted being lost (eg.selling, getting stolen, broken, etc.). If so, please mention why you wish you still have it. Mine would have been my old Greg Hearn which was stolen. I miss it because it was the first custom cue that I ever had and played with. When I had it, I was a broke student, and I never had the thought of selling it.
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happy ending

In 1994 I was reaquainted with a friend from High School.It came out we were both still interested in Pool. In March 1995 we went to the Super Billiard Expo. I had never seen anything up to then that was not local.We were there to get a really good playing cue.Neither one of us knew what we were doing but I had the good fortune of meeting a cue broker from Japan who was buying cues by the bushel basket.We explained to him what we were after and he said he would introduce us to a man that night who made the best playing cues.Sure enough abt.6:30 he came up to us and said to follow him, we had no idea who we were meeting or where we were going.I just knew after looking at 100's of cues all day and getting more confused I just wanted to buy something.The man we meant was Tony Scianilla maker of Black Boar Cues.We went to his Hotel and each bought a 6 point cue.We were in 7th Heaven.Eight years later I was on the brink of making a trade for a Monster Hercek but had to throw in my 1st. Black Boar.I had to do the trade but from the moment I let that cue go I felt empty.My friend John O'neil has since passed away and that increased my desire to get that cue back and all the happy memories that came with it.This past March my good friend Bill Grassley called and told me he had my cue back. He knew I had been trying to track it down.I drove To Bills house and was able to make a deal with Bill for my 1st custom cue.I play with it everyday and I am thrilled I have it back, it had been gone 7 years and had had several owners one being in Calf.So you can imagine how fortunate I feel and how grateful I am to Bill Grassley.One more thing 17 years since meeting Tony Scianella we remain good friends and both remenace about John O'neil.
 
i quit playing pool when i was about 18 after not doing any better in a tournament than second place. had my cue sitting in my closet for years and decided to give it to my sister who began to play APA leagues. so...12 years later(31 yrs old) i decide to give pool another shot. after a few months of shooting i ask my sister for my cue back. a week earlier it was stolen. so after searching for months on ebay to find its replica i discovered one. the cue was built in 1993 by schmelke under the " cobra" name. i recieved it and it played great with a bad tip, bent shaft. so i had it sent to Scot at Proficient Billiards. he restored the cue besutifully and duplicated the shaft perfectly.

so, in 1993 i bought the cue for $109 and in 2012 i paid $187 with $384 in restoration. but the nostalgia and the comfort and improvement in my game was worth the investement.

john
 
I guess I have owned about 100 cues. I can think of a couple. I miss my only Gus Szamboti that I bought around 1985 from Ray Martin, sight unseen for $700. Kept it a year and a half and sold it for $850...the rest is history. Traded an antique Brunswick pool table for a Phillippi then traded the cue for a Southwest. Sold the Southwest for a grand in about 2000. However the cue I would really like to have back (don't laugh) is a cheap McDermott that had cheesie airbrush artwork of a spider in its webs that was given to me! I was in so much action with that cue in the bars and it was good to me.
 
I sold a beautiful Adam cue once. I had it customized a little & it had a great hit. It was actually one of a kind, one of the points was inlaid different.
 
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