Do you play with your nicer Cue away from home

[PoolFan101]

I guess Willie Mosconi took his famed balabushka out to pool halls when he doing exhibitions . Did he have a back up cue of did he use Balabushka at all of them.

 

[logical]

I play at home 25times more than at a hall or bar and don't have any that are worth more than $1000. I take whatever I've been playing with lately when going out but keep a few cheaper versions (same basic shaft), one in my car and one in my truck just to avoid house cues if an u planned stop at a bar happens and it's what I'll pack if I take a cue on a plane. They are cheap enough to not worry about extreme temperatures or careless bag handlers.

Sent from the future.

 

[Bob Jewett]

I guess Willie Mosconi took his famed balabushka out to pool halls when he doing exhibitions . Did he have a back up cue of did he use Balabushka at all of them.

From Wikipedia:

Balabushka turned out approximately 1,200 handcrafted cues during his 16-year cue-making career, spanning from 1959 to his death in 1975.
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I think Willie gave the majority of his exhibitions before Balabushka started making cues. Willie probably was using a cue from Herman Rambow. Here is Rambow's HOF citation: https://bca-pool.com/page/32

 

[hang-the-9]

Hello ,

I am problay odd here on this but I play out from time to time at other Friends tables and also a pool club and I do not take my nicer cues. I have a couple of cheaper Cues such as Players that I take, I have a few Friends who give me grief over this as they say I would not own a cue that I could not take out and Play with. My Nice Cue is older and I always worry about it getting dented or scratched, and also some idiot picking it up and doing who know what with it, Do you guy's play out with your better cue or do you use a cheaper one. I also do not break with my playing Cues but know people who do .

The only time I don't bring my main playing cue is when I'm going on a plane. Seems a bit silly to have cues that you play with that you don't play with. Of course I don't have anything collectible that will loose thousands in value if there was a ding on it if your cue is worth like 5,000 I may see why you'd not want to bring it to random bars to play with. To an actual pool hall or to a friends house don't see issues.

 

[bbb]

I have a more plain cue from the same cue maker that I use when traveling or going to room where I want to be more low key.
They play very close ...just less bling

 

[Tooler]

I play with the cues in my signature regardless of the circumstances or when or where.
My cues are meant to be played with. That’s why cues are built or why bother having any?

Fancy, ornate, rare, expensive, irreplaceable, unique, sentimental.....none of this matters.
If you own a cue, play with it or hang it on a wall to look at. Why else spend the $ to get them.

Agreed... if I buy a cue, I buy it for play-ability. Period.

I couldn't care less, if it was loaded or not.:boring2:

 

[hang-the-9]

I guess Willie Mosconi took his famed balabushka out to pool halls when he doing exhibitions . Did he have a back up cue of did he use Balabushka at all of them.

Back when he was using it, it was not a "famed" anything, just a thing made for playing pool. Not much different from a classic car, when it came out it was not some fancy $1,000,000 collector's item, it was just a car people bought. I have a co-worker that showed me pictures of him when he was younger with a few early Mustangs that were just cars back then. You don't think that it would be anything fancy in 50 years.