Expensive Cue Shooter

I played an entire APA session with my 72 Balabushka and that cue took me to the regional 8-ball finals.

No one ever asked what it was and nobody really cared. This session I'm playing with a 7k Treadway that just feels and hits amazing.

Not as good as the Bushka but really damn close!

Why buy them if your not going to play them, that's the whole point!
 
I’ve always preferred classic four-pointer players cue with no inlays. So they’ve never garnered much attention. My current cue is a custom Titlist conversion with a brass joint collar, rambow butt cap, and no bumper. So to 99% of people it just looks like a boring old cue 😋
 
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Mensabum said:
Pics!!!
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Here's a taste -- all I have. I will try to take/download others tomorrow, but . . .
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Take something mismatched and relatively plain looking and people won't notice your cue so much.

This one is my Dennis Searing shaft on my Murray Tucker butt.

It is one of the first five cues Murray Tucker ever made.

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Xdecemberguy said:
Do you play with an expensive cue out in the open or are you more reserved about what you bring to the pool hall? I have a few expensive cues and mid-level cost cues and I was just wondering if you use your really expensive cue at the hall? Do you think it's too flashy or risky? What's your opinion?
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I've lived all over, from FL, to DC, to STL, and never felt scared of having a cue stolen. I did get robbed when I played a stranger for money in Alexandria, VA 20+ years ago. I won the 9 ball set, but lost the money. I sensed the kind of character he was when he asked me to play (sketchy and potentially dangerous). I also knew he thought HE was stealing. My ego made me want to "show" him...but even after he lost the set he "showed" me. It was a valuable lesson that I never forgot....and only cost me $100.
 
Matt_24 said:
I've lived all over, from FL, to DC, to STL, and never felt scared of having a cue stolen. I did get robbed when I played a stranger for money in Alexandria, VA 20+ years ago. I won the 9 ball set, but lost the money. I sensed the kind of character he was when he asked me to play (sketchy and potentially dangerous). I also knew he thought HE was stealing. My ego made me want to "show" him...but even after he lost the set he "showed" me. It was a valuable lesson that I never forgot....and only cost me $100.
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Got away cheap for the experience.
 
All I've got access to is bars to play pool in so my Mike Gulyassy or Scott Erwin cues are pretty safe if I were to travel my old predator Sneaky Pete would be along for the ride .
 
Most players in the league don't give 2 shits what u play with just look after your stuff ,we all know each other in the hall and never had a problem yet knock on wood.
 
It's funny but the less expensive looking cues seem to cause me more of a problem than the very exotic looking ones in public places.
The cheap looking cues I have keep getting picked up by casual people walking to the tables next to me who think the cues are
house cues. The people don't check and just pickup any cue leaning next to a chair that looks like a sneaky pete of some sort.
I don't have this problem with cues that are ornate. I think other people must have experienced this several times too. I see my friends
on occasions looking for their cues after getting their beers from the bar. A cue like HawaiianEye is displaying is the exact kind that
I end up looking around the entire pool hall for if I don't pay attention and am text messaging on my phone. It will grow legs and just
walk to the other end of the pool hall or bar.
 
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