Ever See A Someone with the Same Cue

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Years ago I was told to lay my cue on the table when racking to prevent the player from breaking while removing the rack. This was also a chance to show off your cue. I stopped doing this because of balls being dropped on it and players removing the cue from the table.

Do you ever really look at other player's cues when they are shooting?

Have you ever seen one exactly the same as yours?

The reason I am asking is many custom cuemakers have a catalog of cues. I asked one cuemaker if he could do something a little different to one of the models. He said chances are you will never see one like it because there are very few made even though it is in his catalog. I think this could also apply to many production cues.
 
It's very easy to see in production cues, see it all the time.... I've seen someone with the same custom sneaky as i have, but not the same of the my playing cue... I designed that one completely myself.
 
Well back in Feb2000 i bought a Schon LTD, from a place in Texas, Hawley's. And the lady who i talked to said they only make like a dozen of these and then change the design. So i snatched one up.

Well like a year or so later, i was watching the WPBA on ESPN, and low n behold one of the girls on TV had the same damn cue !!!!!!!!!!!!!! now the fact that she got beat by Allison Fisher 7-1 is besides the point lol.

But i was totally shocked when i seen someone on TV with the same Schon LTD as mine lol.

Now as for Production cues, yes i have seen many pool players with the same cue, if its a popular style. I have seen several guys with a Schon STL7

Now with Custom cues, it depends, i have seen many guys with Gilbert J/b cues that look very similar, or could be the same, but besides that. I havent.

dave
 
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I have seen someone with the same Viking VM28 that I own, but I know that only 35 Samsaras were made identical to mine.

Does this help?
 
Smorgass Bored said:
I know that you probably won't believe this, BUT.... I was in a bar once (well, more than once) and eight of us had identical cues.Oddly, there were 12 more on the wall JUST LIKE OURS. What are the odds?
Doug
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The sad thing about this- is that the design was probably STOLEN and passed off as a Tribute Cues... :rolleyes:

Ray
 
i have never seen anybody else with a mcdermott m44e, but i have seen quite a few people with the same sneaky as me.
 
I'd say the first impression to me is his/her cue in a pool hall, a nice cue will draw your (at least mine;) ) attenation to it. then I'll see how good he/she plays .. as some said already, I've been seen some identical production cues many times, it happens on custom cues as well, just not as often
 
I know, I have a limited Schon # 028. I know I have seen # 001, while playing around town. They had the exact same wood inlay "twins." I know he paid extra $1000 to get the 001 cue. :p

I know that when Mike worked with Joss in the 80s. Often Nick and Mike would have Joss cues made with different point and butts (switch the top and bottoms of productions cue parts). This would make their road cues look different than the other players they may run into on a demo at pool halls.
Other color inlays is also another trick that some other cue makers will use to extend the numbers of some production models? Look at the different changes to the Meucci Gambler cues. Changes to the points, the cards and the inlays dashes or dice. To me, I like the old Gambler cues with the dashes (stitching) over the dice. But, I would never own one...... It just looks to fake to me.

Now if someone was to put a Huebler US Open in my hands, I say thank you and run out the door. But that's just me? LOL.
 
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PoolSleuth said:
When playing I watch the other player to see how he or she plays, not what he or she plays with....:p
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That is the same thing I do. I never look at the cue. I am watching the table. In fact after the match is over most of the time I couldn't remember/recognize the person I played against.
 
I had a Players Professional Series that I got when I was 16. I never saw another one like it for years. Except at Murphy's Brass Rails in Athens a guy had one and was playing on a 10' snooker table with one just like mine. Then my first day of League I saw a woman who had the same cue. It doesn't bother me though.

Now I see Meucci sneaky petes like mine all the time. And even though I don't have a Lucasi it seems like just about everyone at my league has one.
 
Marty Rimlinger and I have the same cue model from McDermott (D21), only different stains. We were practicing last year and he actually picked up my cue to shoot with it. lol. He has his name engraves in the butt. As far as it being a production cue, I don't care. I have been shooting with that cue for over 20 years and it makes no sense to part with it. I just change out the shaft every so often and it plays beautifully. I guess that by now I have shot a couple of million balls with it, so I'm still getting used to it. Most McDermott's (and other cue brands) that I have played with that were produced prior to the boom in the late 1980's shoot very well and are of excellent quality.

I came very close to buying John Schmidt's Hunter cue last year. Bobby was making him a new one and he was selling the cue he had ran the 400 with. I'm not a big collector, but I remember telling John that a collector should own it before I should. Not sure if he still has it, but I'd have shot with it, it shoots sweet. IIRC, the deal didn't include the shafts and I would have had to send it off for Bobby to make some new shafts. That's the only time I have ever considered switching cues, but I got over it.

(Interpreted - Debra said no.)
 
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