Custom Cue HORROR STORIES

A couple years ago my wife and I ran a bar in a rural area near here. During the week I'd open in the early afternoon and often didn't have any customers 'til 4 or 5. I often wiled away the time by knocking balls around on one of the two pool tables. My cue is not really a custom. Its an early 90s Schon STL7, I believe, but I really value it.
One afternoon as I'm hitting 'em around, the jukebox guy shows up to service the jukebox. He's got the wrong set of keys and doesn't have one for this model. He looks at the back of the box and gets a "bright idea". Grabs the tins snips, cuts a hole in a vent grill were he can see the lock on the far side. Reaches for a bar cue, not one off the rack 10 feet away but one propped up on a nearby table - my Schon. I'm cleaning the tables and turn around to see the butt of my cue sticking out of the back of the jukebox, I freaked out. It was all I could do to keep from throttling the guy.
Luckily the butt was undamaged, there was however, an inch long gouge in the shaft below the collar. His boss made the guy pay for a new shaft, thankfully.
 
Here's my custom cue horror story: In the very early 90's my Schrager was finally ready to picked up. I jumped in the my friend's car and took the trip from Northern CA to drive to Southern CA to pick it up. I did. Sometime in transit home, while I was showing the cue off to my friend who had the top down on our trip home, I somehow slammed the wrap portion of the cue against the edge of the windshield frame and put a big a$$ dent in the wrap. :eek::shakehead::mad:

Bert Schrager really does (did-RIP) great pigskin wraps and this one was no exception. I never had the heart to tell him what I have done, and the wrap was so good I didn't want it replaced, so I left it alone. I still have it today w/the dent. It needs a refinish in the worst way, but if I have it done, I would want to keep the original black leather pigskin wrap as is. Maybe one day I'll send it to Proficient Billiards and let Scot do the refinish. He is a master of keeping original wraps.

Dave
 
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