Do you give sentimental values to your old playing cue

donuteric

donuteric

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When you've decided to get a new player, do you just sell your old one or do you keep it because, for whatever reason it is, you're sentimentally attached to it.

I stepped foot in this country for college many years ago, and I still remember clearly my first tournament. I woke up one day and saw people with what looked like cue cases to me walking into the student union. So out of curiously I asked, is that a snooker tournament. I told them I was a freshmen and they let me play. I picked up a 21oz Cuetec house cue, and I remember I was asking rules on my first couple of matches. The TD (the president of the school pool team) advised me to play in the C division, but I insisted I wanted to play the best players. He gave me some rolling eyes and said, "mmmmkay". I ended up finished 3rd in my first 8-ball tournament, A division, the field was almost 64 I believe. I still have that one-piece house cue!

I went on buying another cuetec cue, and I won a predator next year in a 9-ball tournament. I've been playing with Predator for a long time now, and I still have the two cuetecs!

Granted, these two cues don't worth anything, but that isn't the point. So I'm wondering if you guys do the same, or completely the opposite.
 
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I still have my first cue, an old Viking. I've sold a few production cues over the years but still have all of my custom cues I've had made for me.
 
donuteric said:
When you've decided to get a new player, do you just sell your old one or do you keep it because, for whatever reason it is, you're sentimentally attached to it.

I stepped foot in this country for college many years ago, and I still remember clearly my first tournament. I woke up one day and saw people with what looked like cue cases to me walking into the student union. So out of curiously I asked, is that a snooker tournament. I told them I was a freshmen and they let me play. I picked up a 21oz Cuetec house cue, and I remember I was asking rules on my first couple of matches. The TD (the president of the school pool team) advised me to play in the C division, but I insisted I wanted to play the best players. He gave me some rolling eyes and said, "mmmmkay". I ended up finished 3rd in my first 8-ball tournament, A division, the field was almost 64 I believe. I still have that one-piece house cue!

I went on buying another cuetec cue, and I won a predator next year in a 9-ball tournament. I've been playing with Predator for a long time now, and I still have the two cuetecs!

Granted, these two cues don't worth anything, but that isn't the point. So I'm wondering if you guys do the same, or completely the opposite.
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No, it is just stuff. Every cue will have it's own memories but when you are done sell it to someone who will continue to play with it. I think when you get older your thinking changes. I am getting rid of all my old stuff right now before it just ends up in an estate sale when I am gone of a trash pile. That's right, all those things you value so much is just someone else's junk to throw away. I go to garage sales all the time and they can be sad when they are estate sales. Watch someones life long possessions pawed over like worthless junk that is actually is in reality; better you do it yourself. Even a cue, sell it to someone who will prize it as you have and bring it to the pool room every night instead of laying in the back of a closet.
 
After being out of pool for years I bought a real good looking Lucasi cocobolo cue:love2:. Now granted it is not worth much and I play most of the time with my Pechauer I do have a sentimental attachment to the Lucasi and probably would not sell it unless some bar banger offered me stupid money for it. Also it is a good idea to have a back up cue. Right now I have a custom cue maker changing the rings on the Pechauer shaft so I am playing with the Lucasi.
Of all the cues I have had I really regret selling the original Palmer I had back in the '70s. But at that time it was just another old cue that was not worth much.
 
My dad bought me my first cue, a Joss. I play with a Schon now, which I may sell someday, but I'll never sell my first Joss.
 
I am getting my first custom cue from a custom cue maker, I may keep that, but I have sold or given away every other cue. I wished I had the Joss I used in the late 80's but I needed money for a divorce lawyer. Priorities and questionable drunken decisions made a lot of choices easy for me. I don't drink alcohol anymore, so maybe different this time around. John
 
My first cue was a terrible choice, it was an Action cue with a blood splatter design...I don't know what I was thinking when I made that purchase, I sold that cue so I can get a Dufferin sneaky pete.

I prefer more conventional looking cues now with points or plain jane type cues.
 
I still have my first important cue, but it is worth something. While I have retired it for a new playing cue by the same maker, it has been through the wars with me and will never be sold as I do have a sentimental attachment to it. It will be passed down to my son.
 
I've always sold when I upgraded/got the urge for something new. Many times I needed the money. My second Franklin era Southwest got sold because I needed money for a mortgage payment. I've had my current cue something like 17 years because I haven't found anything I really liked better.
 
sad to hear some of you guys have had to sell your first cues. Im not that old so i didnt play back in the day when lots of stuff when on in pool halls and such. so sorry for your losses. my first cue i bought for myself was a cutec. it got stolen. it wasent even a good cue just looked nice haha o well maby he got a good ten buck out of it. i have a custom one comming cant wait to have it in my hands. will prob never let it go haha.
 
I still play with my first custom cue, a Verl Horn with 8 points and a ton of ivory, also I turned 75 in March and still play weekly. I got the cuestick in 1970 from Verl.
 
My first cue wasnt actually my first cue, but my 4th or 5th. My first cue was a Viper i picked up for $30 when i was 13. I used that until I was 16 and got a Meucci. After playing with that for 2 years, i bought myself a graduation present, which i consider my first cue. I bought a Viking VM2 and used that from 2000 right up until the end of 2010. Now i have a Schon and the ol' Viking is retired. My Schon will be retired too, once my Bender comes in. I could easily part with the Schon, but I doubt i could ever sell the Viking.
 
donuteric said:
When you've decided to get a new player, do you just sell your old one or do you keep it because, for whatever reason it is, you're sentimentally attached to it.

I stepped foot in this country for college many years ago, and I still remember clearly my first tournament. I woke up one day and saw people with what looked like cue cases to me walking into the student union. So out of curiously I asked, is that a snooker tournament. I told them I was a freshmen and they let me play. I picked up a 21oz Cuetec house cue, and I remember I was asking rules on my first couple of matches. The TD (the president of the school pool team) advised me to play in the C division, but I insisted I wanted to play the best players. He gave me some rolling eyes and said, "mmmmkay". I ended up finished 3rd in my first 8-ball tournament, A division, the field was almost 64 I believe. I still have that one-piece house cue!

I went on buying another cuetec cue, and I won a predator next year in a 9-ball tournament. I've been playing with Predator for a long time now, and I still have the two cuetecs!

Granted, these two cues don't worth anything, but that isn't the point. So I'm wondering if you guys do the same, or completely the opposite.
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A cues value to each of us is personal, and they bring back memories. I own a pool hall, where I do cue repair and build custom cues for my local customers. I have people come in on a regular basis with Walking Cane Cues, 3 piece cues, 5 piece cues and other cheap imports from day's that have gone by. In many cases these people have a story that go's along with the cue that they are inquiring about. In most of these cases the cue came to them from a deceased family member or a friend who played with Minnesota fats or was unknown road player from the old days, which in almost all cases translates to the fact that who ever owned it most likely couldn't play well at all.

But rather than insult some ones memory or hurt a customers feelings I normally tell them that I really would not invest any money fixing the cue and that it should be kept just like it is and passed along with it's history down through the family. This seems to create a fond memory of my establishment, and in most cases the little bit of respect that I have shown by not ruining their memory is greatly appreciated even if it is not the exact truth.

As far myself, I do not still have the first two piece cue I ever owned, or for that matter many that came after it, however, I wish that I still did have those cues today.

The first cue I ever owned was a Huebler that I purchased in approximately 1973 or 1974 for around $60. I loved that cue and I played with it for many years, but as I write this I don't remember exactly what happened to that cue. Later I purchased a cue made by Gus Szamboti from a guy at pool hall I use to hang out at in 1976. The cue was kinda plain Jane, with four points and it had 3 original shafts. I purchased that cue for around $275 if I remember correctly, and I later sold it for around $500 in 1984, big mistake!!!!!:o

Personally I think it is a good idea to hold on to any cues you bought as players, unless they just did not play well for you. In many cases when our games go through changes that are not always good, you can always go back to that old friend that is waiting in the closet, a comfortable cue may be all you need to get yourself back on track.

Good thread, thanks for sharing your thoughts.
 
BETNHI said:
I still play with my first custom cue, a Verl Horn with 8 points and a ton of ivory, also I turned 75 in March and still play weekly. I got the cuestick in 1970 from Verl.
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I would like to see pictures of your Verl Horn if you can manage it. I never met Verl, but did meet his brother when I was down in Oklahoma City at a tournament one time. Jack Shurtz learned from Verl Horn, that has Shurtz's custom cues here in Wichita. Bob Owen is the cuemaker for Shurtz's, who is Gabe's Dad and my cuemaker.
 
Thank you all for responding and sharing.

manwon said:
A cues value to each of us is personal, and they bring back memories. I own a pool hall, where I do cue repair and build custom cues for my local customers. I have people come in on a regular basis with Walking Cane Cues, 3 piece cues, 5 piece cues and other cheap imports from day's that have gone by. In many cases these people have a story that go's along with the cue that they are inquiring about. In most of these cases the cue came to them from a deceased family member or a friend who played with Minnesota fats or was unknown road player from the old days, which in almost all cases translates to the fact that who ever owned it most likely couldn't play well at all.

But rather than insult some ones memory or hurt a customers feelings I normally tell them that I really would not invest any money fixing the cue and that it should be kept just like it is and passed along with it's history down through the family. This seems to create a fond memory of my establishment, and in most cases the little bit of respect that I have shown by not ruining their memory is greatly appreciated even if it is not the exact truth.

As far myself, I do not still have the first two piece cue I ever owned, or for that matter many that came after it, however, I wish that I still did have those cues today.

The first cue I ever owned was a Huebler that I purchased in approximately 1973 or 1974 for around $60. I loved that cue and I played with it for many years, but as I write this I don't remember exactly what happened to that cue. Later I purchased a cue made by Gus Szamboti from a guy at pool hall I use to hang out at in 1976. The cue was kinda plain Jane, with four points and it had 3 original shafts. I purchased that cue for around $275 if I remember correctly, and I later sold it for around $500 in 1984, big mistake!!!!!:o

Personally I think it is a good idea to hold on to any cues you bought as players, unless they just did not play well for you. In many cases when our games go through changes that are not always good, you can always go back to that old friend that is waiting in the closet, a comfortable cue may be all you need to get yourself back on track.

Good thread, thanks for sharing your thoughts.
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manwon,

This is probably one of the best advices I've been given in recent years. As I progressively get better in this game, I'm convinced most of my mistakes are purely mental. Mistakes such as I am able to break and run a tough, tough rack till about the 7 or the 8 ball, then magically I choke on an easy 9. I'd never quite thought about it like the way you said it. Old cues might not physically assist me in my games anymore, but I can see how good old memories can mentally prepare me to simply play better.

The funny thing was. My first tournament; I had absolutely no pressure whatsoever. I was new to the game and I was expected to lose. Yet, that kind of mentally put me in play above average. So many years now that I've learned the rules, the tricks, and the shots, and yet I can't seem to put myself back in that mentality while playing tournaments now.

Thank you for sharing. My good old Cuetec just deserved its place back to my case, along with my current player and breaker.

Cheers.
 
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If you can afford it, and you don't need it anymore it's much better for you to give it to other people.

I believe by doing so you will create good karma.

There is a universal law called "law of circulation" anything you hold on too tight is not good for you. Just like money..if you don't invest it and just keep it. It will end up 0 through inflation.
 
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