Cue vanity...

Would it become your regular player?

  • Yes

    Votes: 112 76.7%

  • No

    Votes: 34 23.3%
  • Total voters
    146
I am a product of the Sinatra generation. What that means is you always look your best when in public.Grooming,clothes and pool cue must look good.
So I'm not going to play with an ugly cue,plain jane maybe but it's got to be a nice plain jane.
 
Medalist said:
Of course most including me say give me the player but how about this. Wife or husband that's a 3 in looks but a 10 in personality etc. Or 10 in looks and 3 in personality. Be honest now.
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I would say 3 in looks 10 in personality. You can always turn the lights off :grin:
 
Bob Callahan said:
If an ugly, $25, used, banged up, no-name cue you bought at a flea market played better than your custom, $2k cue, would it become your regular playing cue?
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Yup, What ever cue brings the best out of me is the cue I want to use. nothing else to say about this topic, other than good poll.:smile:



Edit: I would still have a cue collection, because I love cues. And I like to feel and try all cues, however for my main player, nothing matters except for what I first said above.
 
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dr9ball said:
It's the player not the pool cue.
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thats true, however some cues can bring you more success than others. I have shot practice drills and kept statistics. Some cues I pot a higher % of balls than I do with others, or get shape better them. I agree no cue is gonna get me a spot on the M-Cup team, but I do play better with some cues than others. I think that applies to most people, perhaps not the top guys who are just naturally talented,

Mark Tadd I refer to often on this topic, he can play great with anything and switch cues in the middle of a tournament and still win. I'm in Germany right now and played the past 2 nights with a different cue than I normally play with and I wasnt playing near as good as I do with my regular cue. I need more time to adapt to a different cue because I dont have much natural talent for pool.
 
When I bought my home table and started playing again, I bought a $300 McDermott and an I-2 shaft. It wasn't fancy, but it was nice enough and gave me something to practice with. I've since bought a used custom Viattorre, with snakewood, ivory, ringwork, leather wrap, etc ... exactly what I wanted a cue to LOOK like.

I still shoot better with my simple McDermott and honestly I can't figure out why. I like the Viattorre way more, it's exactly what I've always wanted, it's straight, it feels good, I had a new tip put on it , it has a 314-2 shaft (used to use a I-2 on the McD so I'm used to LD shafts) ... I just don't know!

I keep telling myself I just have to get used to the lower deflection of the 314-2 versus the I-2, I have to get used to the different weight (the McD is 1.5 oz lighter), I have to get used to the leather wrap instead of linen, etc... but deep down inside I know these are all just excuses. I can pick up a house cue and shoot better than the Viattorre for some damn reason ... but I STILL use the Viattorre cause I love it so damned much and refuse to give up on it.

Unless I started shooting 3 balls better with a junky stick, I'd still keep using what I LIKE, because well ... I like it!
 
measureman said:
I am a product of the Sinatra generation. What that means is you always look your best when in public.Grooming,clothes and pool cue must look good.
So I'm not going to play with an ugly cue,plain jane maybe but it's got to be a nice plain jane.
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i'll make a note of that, next cue I send you will look better.

hope your well buddy, and playing good.

happy Christmas,

Eric:smile:
 
Medalist said:
Of course most including me say give me the player but how about this. Wife or husband that's a 3 in looks but a 10 in personality etc. Or 10 in looks and 3 in personality. Be honest now.
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Thas not fair. You don't have to look at your cue
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I play with a Scruggs, Wife has a cheap $50.00 cue. Her cue plays fine, but not as good. She doens't play much anymore, but her cue stays together at the house. I rarely take my scruggs out of th case at home. I shoot with her cue all the time.
 
Fatboy said:
i'll make a note of that, next cue I send you will look better.

hope your well buddy, and playing good.

happy Christmas,

Eric:smile:
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Everything's good and I'm playing well. I won a small 9 ball tournament and an 8 ball tournament with the Pechauer so now it's broken in well.
If you are cold in Germany come to Denver it's a little below 20 degrees tonight. :grin-square:
 
Bob Callahan said:
If an ugly, $25, used, banged up, no-name cue you bought at a flea market played better than your custom, $2k cue, would it become your regular playing cue?
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I answered yes to this very tired, loaded, and non sequitur hypothetcal question.

I challenge anyone to find a $25 flea market cue to be a better player than my custom cue. If it truly is better for me, then I'd happily pay the $25 dollars. I'd happily pay more, but then it wouldn't be a $25 cue.
And there's goes the hypothetical question out the window.

I always wonder when people bring up this type of question if the original poster truly believes thy the average cue buyer is just a frickin moron.

Fred <~~~ as moronic as it gets
 
Probably....

If it played better yes, but I doubt any $25 beat up cue would play better than my stick. We played on a road trip with a guy that my backer bought a beat up stick from a guy that night for $75. I won 2 sets with it. He showed me that my stroke was more important than my stick. That night he named the stick "The Cabbage Getter" after we got back home. And whenever someone asked about what kind of stick it was, he always said "It's a Cabbage Getter!" Later after we won more money with it, we wrote it in big letters with a sharpie on the forearm... It looked hideous..but that made it so much fun...
 
Seriously, if it hit and played better, why not? You could always have your $3000 cue in the case, and if someone makes mention of the beat-up cue you're playing with, just say "the expensive, fancy cue is in the bag, this one makes the balls."

{Easy for me to say, as the likelihood of my ever having a cue that is priced with four digits (before the decimal point) is very slight.}
 
I voted no. If a beat-up $25 cue from a flea-market plays better than my $2k custom, I didn't get my money's worth. I would have another cue built by a cuemaker who makes cues known (beyond AZ) for their playability.

In the meantime I would have the $25 cue restored, let a bunch of people shoot with it, and offer it for sale to the highest bidder. Put the funds from the sale towards the new custom.
 
I say yes and have done it. I put away a beautiful expensive schon to play with an ugly house cue conversion as I waited for nine months while my custom Judd that was made to hit more like the ugly stick.
 
I have a $500 cue, not a $2k cue, but I answered yes. My cue is pretty much plain jane anyway, bought it for playing quality not looks. If something cheaper played better for me, I'd use it instead.
 
voted no

But if it did. Id book flights to NV, NY, PA and FL and take that $25 flea market cue and put a beat down the Franklins,Tascarella, Ohman, and Mottey for building me such a crappy cue. :mad:
 
I want a cue to look good and play good. I could've saved 3 grand and bought a Scruggs sneaky pete that im sure would play the same if I didn't
 
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