Do you let others use your Cue ?

I keep my shafts smooth as silk and don't want anyone racking the balls with the shaft. I carry a few cues I will sell and let people try them but tell them not to touch balls with the shaft. My main player is outof the question, too many people don't know how to treat a cue. They think it is just a piece of wood and dinging it up means nothing to them.
Buy a cue or play off the wall. I remember back in the late 70's and early 80;s some of the top players did not en=ven have cues they borrowed someones elses. Not mine tho.
 
shamadam said:
I'll let friends use it. Pool playing friends that know and respect a nice cue.
Thats where it stops.:smile:
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Yup yup. I also let the ones I know well enough to divulge how much I spent on it, how much I spent on it. That usually changes people's behavior around the cue lol.
 
Hell no. Maybe it's just me but I feel like you must be some kind of jerk to want to borrow someone else's cue short of loosing your case at the airport or having been stolen.
 
I only allow two of my best friends to use my main cue ( a Tucker). I trust them both and they look after my cue just as I would. One is my friend Oscar, and the other is my friend Billy, both of whom I take full blame for turning into pool addicts and students / lovers of the game. Other than that, no one, and I mean no one, gets to use my cue.
 
Loaning your cue

Desmondp said:
Your main cue i mean, not your spare cues :)

I have to say i don't like anyone else using my cue, however competent they may be.
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No, you just don't loan out your cue, it always comes back with a pothole in it, you may borrow it to shoot a shot, but I'll have to keep the evil eye on ya!:smile:


David Harcrow
 
Desmondp said:
Your main cue i mean, not your spare cues :)

I have to say i don't like anyone else using my cue, however competent they may be.
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"NO NEVER". I am not a cheapskate and will give the shirt off my back in most cases but I never lend my cue and never have. I would also never borrow someone eases cue.
 
Nope. A test hit but that is it. Loan it out, let them play a game with it? Never.

I bought spare cues to let folks use. That is what I bought them for, use them! LOL!
 
Borrow my cue?

There are very very few people who I'll allow to play with my two favorite Scruggs .

Some time ago I was much more open to the idea till:

>> My brother in law the banger stupidly missed a shot and slammed the butt onto a tile floor so hard it completely split the buttcap.
>> A good friend who's a top level wheel chair player once used my Scruggs to paddle his way around the table and drag the cue along the floor. A nasty chunk of the TS butt capp disappeared within minutes.
>> Another good friend slapped/dinged the shaft 3 times on the rail after missing a shot. The 12.90mm shaft shrank to 12.4mm after the repair.

Don't think any of them bothered to say "sorry".:mad::mad::mad:
 
m79a said:
If my dad wanted to use it, I'd let him. Other than him, nope.
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LOL, my dad is the one I have to watch like a hawk.

I don't mind letting most of my pool buds hit a few ball with my cue, most of them are very competent and I don't have to sweat it much. I get a little nervous occasionally but not often. I probably have the "fanciest" player cue of anyone I know except maybe Shannon so I get asked fairly often to test it out. The good side of that though is that I might even get asked less than most because a lot of people say they are afraid to hit balls with it.
 
Yes I did. Notice I used the word did? Now I don't have any cue to play with as they are broke, not broken but the tips are broke so I just use a house cue, much easier. Don't have to worry about your case and anyone can use my cue if they want I dont mind
 
Nope learned the lesson the hard way. Just bought a new cue and a friend wanted to try it. Hit a ball came up and dinged the butt on a light that was hanging. Luckily it was't that expensive a cue.
The only ones now who can try my cue now are CMs or own high end cues. But i wont let anyone borrow it.
 
NO! There were times as a proud owner of a new cue I would want to get opinions from others. Found out real fast that they really didn't care or had any respect for a fine instrument. It seemed as if every time it ended up bad.

It is like the person that slams his door into your car in a parking lot. They will say if you don't want it dinged then park somewhere else
 
depends on YOUR friends . . .

Robroy said:
Never when I played, now its not as big of a deal...but I still have a twing when I let someone use it.
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For YOU Robin , anytime !:lovies:


bnall said:
Use my wife, but not my cues.:D
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What was your wife's cell # again ?:grin-devilish:


If I KNOW you , and KNOW how you treat cues , yes , you are welcome to borrow my main player ( 1983 John Robinson custom) . Because MY friends will treat it with the respect it is due . Failing that , MY friends are of a character where if they damaged it , they would have John repair it , and they'd pick up the tab . :smile:

Sometimes it's a question of who you call your friends . . . .:cool:
 
I let any of my friends play with any cues I have....including the Szamboti.

My favorite of all my cues is my Schick.

Reminds me of what my mother said about children she drives on her school bus. She said the poor kids bring a toy and shares it with everyone, the kids with any money and brings a toy and keeps it all to theirselves and wont share.

I try to act like the poor kids.

Ken
 
If I know the guys and I know that they cherish (hows the right spelling again???) a good artwork, I might let them do a few test shots...

If it comes to really play, everybody that I go shooting with would probaply get my breaker with a fitting older McDermott Shaft (shoots well enough anyway), but never my No.1 player...
I tend to get upset a bit, if ppl even move it by themselves (specially, when they grab it by the shaft with hands that might have touched ANYthing before *shudders*

No nay never, no nay never no more... I share the new cuestick, no never no more ;) That'll be a good tune for the Dubliners I believe ;)
 
List of errors people have made with my cues after saying "I will treat your cue as good as you do":

Chalk marks on the Ferrule
Grinding chalk into the tip
Whacks shaft on edge of table to get the chalk dust off after chalking!?!
Holds cue, while standing, up near ferrule getting greasy fingers on the shaft
Uses the wrong chalk on the tip
Leans cue up against a wall when there is a perfetly good cue holder less than a foot away
Grabs shaft with same hand as just drank a beverage from a sweating glass
Turns around and whacks the butt on the game machine
Whacks the shaft on the table after missing a shot

I, personally, would LIKE to be able to loan out my extra cues to worthy players. However, in my experience, until you have owned a cue for more than 1 full year, there is simply no way you are even able to follow the sentance quoted above.
 
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