High Dollar Players

CocoboloCowboy said:
Honestly I would be afraid to take a 20K Cue out of its Case, and hitting a ball with it would make me Sweat COLD.

Don't think I will ever own a 5K, 10K, or 20K Cue for playing. My current One Pocket Player Cue is a Titlist Conversion, and was no where the cost with some of the high dollar Titlist Conversion from Well Know Cuemakers.

My Titlist Conversion on any given day will play better in the hands of some Pro Level Player, but it does the job for me when I am stroking well.:p
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Sweet looking conversion.. who made it?

To add to this, I think you should buy and play with the nicest cue you can afford / want to spend money on. I play with a $1500 Jim Buss, a Scruggs, and a 1 of 1 jim baxter. They are all well under 2K and all hit great. I feel they are all really nice and they are not expensive enough for me to worry about them getting damaged or stolen much. I do stress out about them warping in my car when I have to bring them to work (try not to do this if I can help it).
 
AZB'er Hal2 plays with a Balabushka....bar league...breaks with it too.

Even worse, he let me hit with it for a while. WHAT WAS HE THINKING????
 
I play with my high end cues all the time. if you do get a ding it can always be refinished. No problemo. Seriously cues should be played with. CMs make them for this reason.
 
Cues are meant to be played with no matter what the design or cost. If a cue looks great and plays like crap than maybe it is worth keeping in the closet instead of playing with and being embarrassed that you spent so much money on something that does not do what it was advertized to do. If a player gets dinged so what, that's what a refinish is for.

Bob Danielson
www.bdcuesandcomix.com
 
Pete Sr. Tascarella, Jerry Franklin Southwest

I own a Tascarella by Pete Sr., made and bought in 1989, which I hardly ever use because it doesn't quite have the right weight for me, and which used to attract rather too much attention from people especially at tournaments (Tascarellas used to be extremely rare, plus it's got inlays - Pete Sr. cues back from that era hardly ever do), so much so I literally had to take it with me to the bathroom for fear it might get stolen, thought that most irksome. I almost feel guilty for not using it - it's an almost ridiculously well-hitting cue - if not selling it to someone who'd use it, but couldn't part with it, and have thus far declined all offers.

Ironically (as well as tragically, still makes me sad whenever I think of him), when I bought myself another playing cue, a Southwest, in 1991, I wasn't at all aware it would soon become another collectible. Jerry made me a pro taper birdseye maple shaft the day after I bought it because I didn't like the taper and feel of the original, and I've played with it ever since, even though the cue is fractionally too heavy for me, and I'd prefer the butt's/handle's diameter to be fractionally thinner since I have somewhat short fingers.

A cue is a cue, I mean, once the money was spent, I never thought of that aspect anymore. What's more important is that one likes it, likes playing with it. If that's the case, its worth cannot be quantified - which in a way makes matters worse. The experience of a (possibly great and important) part of one's playing career, the familiar feel, the happy memories...

Greetings from Switzerland, David.
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„J'ai gâché vingt ans de mes plus belles années au billard. Si c'était à refaire, je recommencerais.“ – Roger Conti
 
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I live in Dallas and I'm a smoker. You cannot smoke anywhere in Dallas, so I don't even take my cue out and that just sucks. In Ft worth on the other hand is a different story. You can smoke and shoot. It's just too easy to steal a cue and I don't want to have to carry it outside every time I want a smoke. My cue is a $500 cue and would piss me off if it was stolen. I don't trust everybody at the bar, if'in ya know what I mean.
 
My last player was a $10,000 Ginacue... my current one is a little over $3k.

You get over the nervousness of playing with them after a couple months...
 
i just bought my 1st high end cue a week and a half ago. i have taken it to 2 bar tournaments and 3 league nights. had a friend want to look at it and ask how much. when i told him he shoved it back in my hands and said he didnt want to hold a stick that was worth more than his car lol.

i dont worry about dings or scratches because i take care of my sticks. i still got a viking i used for 4 years exclusivley for shooting and breaking. still looks as good as the day i bought it, not a ding or a scratch on it.

btw if i dont start shooting good with this new stick im putting it in the closet and going back to my predator. i wont never sell it i dont think. i used to sell or trade my old cues. i kinda started collecting cues last year. all of them are mid to high level production cues except for this custom and an old cue i bought at a pawn shop that i dont know the make of.
 
mr8ball said:
I play with a pretty high in cue very often. Leagues and pool room. I do keep a close eye on it and like someone else said it will go to the bathroom with me if no friends around. Here is a pic of it. I designed and had it made by Jacoby and love the way it feels. Best cue I have ever played with. Pictures don't do it justice
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Thats a very nice Cue!
 
My cue is a sneaky compared to some of the players on here but it is fancy for me, it is an 8 point butterfly and ivory Gilbert. The cue "retails" for a little over 5K but in today's market that means very little. I initially bought the cue because I liked the looks and the guy that made it (Andy is a great dude). After playing a few games with it I realized how good it played and soon became my primary cue.

He is currently making me a break cue to match it and I will then have the option to use the breaker if, for some reason, I find myself going to a place I feel uncomfortable using my player. I haven't played league or been to a "bar" in many years so I probably won't have to deal with that often, if ever.
 

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i play with a pretty high dollar cue. i dont see why anyone wouldnt if they had one. only valid reason is if it played like crap.

if u own a car worth over 5k and u're not afraid to drive that around in the rain, snow etc. i dont see why u'd be afraid to use an expensive pool cue. the chance of something happening to ur car is far greater than something happening to ur pool cue. and in most cases, people drive cars that are worth more than their cues. i suppose in the back of their minds, they are aware that insurance covers their car whereas there's no coverage on their cues. but then again, hypothetically speaking, im pretty sure they would still drive their cars even if insurance didnt cover any damages etc. to their car.

now whether or not u need an expensive cue to play with is a different question and im pretty sure the answer to that is no. but if u have one and it plays well then it should be used.
 
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