ducking last night

RocketQ

RocketQ

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Shot in TAP league last night. We played on 2 tables. I am standing next to the first table and hear cRaCk ching chinn bang. This idiot playing on the next table "opponent" swings his stick like a sword at the light because he missed. I ducked the shaft went one way the but bounced off the table then the light then hit the wall next to me. Needless to say neither the manager or the guy playing on our team was too happy. We should have taken the win right there cause he broke his stick down.
My gripe....
The guy is a five hdcp thinks he is a 7 and plays like a 3-1/2. I like competition both golf and pool the game is a lot more mind than people give it credit. Above some people have none.

After this is all said and done he calms down and comes over to me. Broken cue. Broke the joint out of it split the forearm about 5" down. Was a pretty Albrect. Asks if it could be fixed. Ya it can.... But I am not doing it. Don't like dealing with a-holes or hot heads.
 
I absolutely hate seeing some jerk abusing a cue. Even if it's a bar cue. If I know in advance the the customer is a cue whacker, I won't sell him a cue. Let him abuse someone else's cue. If I see one of my cues that was sold previously being abused, I'll take it away from the jerk. If he's bigger than me, I'll offer him some cash. But one way or another I'm going to get the cue out of his hands before he kills it.
 
I whacked a chair cushion one time with my Stealth Air jumper.
Thinking it was safe to whack the cushion.
Wrong! The shaft has no collar. IT split right at the face.
I saw one hot head whack his Moochi shaft on a 20 dollar a set match.
Wuttadufus.
Saw a guy fling his WHOLE cue across the pool hall. The dude he was playing against gave him mud racks all night.
King Kong bounced a cueball against the slate at HT so hard one night, it bounced high and hit the lights.
Another pro there snapped his Schon LTD after whacking the top rail.
I think baseball players snapping their $20 bats can afford it. :P
 
KJ you just gotta carry a bigger stick.. haha..

I thought this was a gentelmans game... Oh wait that is golf or maybe it was croquet. people have no respect. I am glad it didn't hit me or someone on my team. The other team f-em all but the only two guys that are nice on that team. The captain was yelling at his guys for missing a shot. Cracked me up where was Tonya Harding when we needed her.
 
KJ Cues said:
I absolutely hate seeing some jerk abusing a cue. Even if it's a bar cue. If I know in advance the the customer is a cue whacker, I won't sell him a cue. Let him abuse someone else's cue. If I see one of my cues that was sold previously being abused, I'll take it away from the jerk. If he's bigger than me, I'll offer him some cash. But one way or another I'm going to get the cue out of his hands before he kills it.
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I hunt hot heads down to sell cues to. I make a much higher hourly wage on repairs than I do on building cues. Besides, breaking cues is good for your health. Holding back aggressions causes heart attacks. Let your feelings flow I say. It's either pay me now (your local cue mechanic) or pay the heart surgeon later.

Dick :) :) :)
 
RocketQ said:
Shot in TAP league last night. We played on 2 tables. I am standing next to the first table and hear cRaCk ching chinn bang. This idiot playing on the next table "opponent" swings his stick like a sword at the light because he missed. I ducked the shaft went one way the but bounced off the table then the light then hit the wall next to me. Needless to say neither the manager or the guy playing on our team was too happy. We should have taken the win right there cause he broke his stick down.
My gripe....
The guy is a five hdcp thinks he is a 7 and plays like a 3-1/2. I like competition both golf and pool the game is a lot more mind than people give it credit. Above some people have none.

After this is all said and done he calms down and comes over to me. Broken cue. Broke the joint out of it split the forearm about 5" down. Was a pretty Albrect. Asks if it could be fixed. Ya it can.... But I am not doing it. Don't like dealing with a-holes or hot heads.
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good move!!!!
make him pay thru the nose for one of your cues, then maybe he'll treat it like a cue should be treated and think first next time (PROBABLY NOT)

i saw a skinny little runt 19 yr old kid bust his cue on the table once
the shaft, shaped like an arrow now, went almost straight up, hit the ceiling, came back down, the sharp edge first, and literally just barely touched the baggy shirt of the guy behind him on other table (tables end to end )

now this guy was one of the meanest looking black guys in our league with arms as big around as my legs!!!!!!!!!!!
i totally expected him to snap that kid like the stick!!!!
he very calmed picked it up, the runt was shaking in his skin,
and he said, "here's your cue a**hole" , and that was it

i think the runt finally began breathing again after that and apologized,
knowing he just dodged the asswhipping of his life
 
rhncue said:
I hunt hot heads down to sell cues to. I make a much higher hourly wage on repairs than I do on building cues. Besides, breaking cues is good for your health. Holding back aggressions causes heart attacks. Let your feelings flow I say. It's either pay me now (your local cue mechanic) or pay the heart surgeon later.

Dick :) :) :)
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Dick this thing was split to the points. I don't think you could have cut it and made a jumper out of it by the time it was all said and done. You are right though repair is where the money is. tap tap tap

Brent if you get the check next week. Please don't send until the Sat. 26 I will be gone for a week. Gone fishin... Smoky mtns.... ahh no cell phone no computer just a fly rod and crown & ginger.
 
RocketQ said:
Dick this thing was split to the points. I don't think you could have cut it and made a jumper out of it by the time it was all said and done. You are right though repair is where the money is. tap tap tap

Brent if you get the check next week. Please don't send until the Sat. 26 I will be gone for a week. Gone fishin... Smoky mtns.... ahh no cell phone no computer just a fly rod and crown & ginger.
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who is GINGER? ;)
 
Never a good itea

Joey I also wacked the cushion of a bar stool thinking it was ok. Well it was not ok and I broke my brand new predator 3k4(before I knew about custom cues) right in half. That was a costly mistake. I felt like such an a#@hole and ashamed I had lost my cool so bad. O well live and learn.
 
I used to whip my cue around everynow and then till i say a friend whip his $300 cue like a baseball bat and the shaft keeped on going, split it some 13 inches. That was my first cue repair with a drill and superglue she wasn't pretty but it still hit good a little thinner and just as crooked.

When I miss instead of getting mad & breaking something I just slam the cue ontop of my foot this way I don't break an ivory butt cap. This way I also wake up and play better I don't walk faster from a sore foot but I'm awake trying to reel the games in again..

Craig
 
I sold a friend of mine an old Viking I had. He got pissed over a $5 game with me and threw it at the stairway in his basement. Naturally he broke the shaft into 2 pieces. After laughing I told him I'd see if I can glue it together till he can afford a new cue. Using Tiger Tip Glue we glued the shaft back together and it lasted for about a year and a half. He broke with it and shot with it too! He had it leaning in a corner at a bar and someone knocked it over and it bounced off a table then fell to the ground. The shaft broke for the second time then but not where we glued it together the first time. That was one amazing cue!

Dave
 
DiamondDave said:
I sold a friend of mine an old Viking I had. He got pissed over a $5 game with me and threw it at the stairway in his basement. Naturally he broke the shaft into 2 pieces. After laughing I told him I'd see if I can glue it together till he can afford a new cue. Using Tiger Tip Glue we glued the shaft back together and it lasted for about a year and a half. He broke with it and shot with it too! He had it leaning in a corner at a bar and someone knocked it over and it bounced off a table then fell to the ground. The shaft broke for the second time then but not where we glued it together the first time. That was one amazing cue!

Dave
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People must think twice about gluing broken shafts. If a shaft is cracked near a ferrule or even 8 or so inches back, I will spread, force in glue and clamp and let the shaft go telling the customer that it needs replacing and of coarse that I am not guaranteeing the repair. I will not attempt to repair a cracked shaft where the crack is any farther back towards the joint. This is entirely to dangerous. If the repair fails during a hard shot such as a break shot and the repaired area is in front of the bridge hand, chances are not much damage would occur to the shooter unless maybe a piece of wood hit him in the eye. However, if the repaired area is between the bridge hand and joint and the repair fails, where do you think this very sharp spear is going at 25 miles an hour? Chances are it will either go through the bridge hand or the bridge hands forearm. When this occurs you immediately go from a wonderful, very talented and innovative cue mechanic to a butcher who just cost a customer the use of his arm and is about to be sued for everything he owns or ever will own.

Dick
 
whenever i used to get very frustrated and angry id give my cue a little kiss, put it down first, and then punch the wall or somethign with my fist... skin heals you see, cue however... ;)
 
broken joss

I was playing a buddy of mine that usually stomped me into the ground but I had finally decided that it was enough so I got a new cue from a buddy got some lessons from him too and took to beating my buddies head in. After about 2 hours of abuse he took the cue he was playing withand threw it against the wall where it snapped about 3 inches below the joint at an angle. Well, come to find out it was his wifes Joss and she had an out of body experience on him so I talked my other buddy into fixing it for him and she even got the stain color she wanted. Anyhow the cue played just as good and you could barely tell it had been broken.
 
BHQ said:
good move!!!!
make him pay thru the nose for one of your cues, then maybe he'll treat it like a cue should be treated and think first next time (PROBABLY NOT)

i saw a skinny little runt 19 yr old kid bust his cue on the table once
the shaft, shaped like an arrow now, went almost straight up, hit the ceiling, came back down, the sharp edge first, and literally just barely touched the baggy shirt of the guy behind him on other table (tables end to end )

now this guy was one of the meanest looking black guys in our league with arms as big around as my legs!!!!!!!!!!!
i totally expected him to snap that kid like the stick!!!!
he very calmed picked it up, the runt was shaking in his skin,
and he said, "here's your cue a**hole" , and that was it

i think the runt finally began breathing again after that and apologized,
knowing he just dodged the asswhipping of his life
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i know it's going to sound like i'm looking for a problem here but if he'd been white (the big black guy that is) would you have mentined his race?
 
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temper

there used to be a guy who would come into our room a lot and always play off the wall. he had quite a temper and broke a few sticks during his games. (strangely enough he played better after his tantrums)

a couple of years back he bought a schon. one night he comes up to the counter and asks me how much a used house used goes for. i tell him $20, he puts it on the counter walks over to the wall pulls one down breaks it over his knee and goes back to his game.

funny thing is he is a real nice guy when not in action. (or playing golf.)

M.C.
 
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