How would you spend $1000?

How would YOU spend $1000?

  • A $900 production cue

    Votes: 3 2.8%

  • A $900 custom cue

    Votes: 32 29.9%

  • A highly-tooled leather case

    Votes: 7 6.5%

  • A cue/case combo

    Votes: 3 2.8%

  • Outfit your gameroom/man-cave

    Votes: 14 13.1%

  • Pool instructions

    Votes: 24 22.4%

  • A combination, or other

    Votes: 24 22.4%
  • Total voters
    107
Shaft

Shaft

Hooked and Improving
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I recently received an inheritance. One part of the money came with instructions: it must be spent on something frivolous. (No kidding)

I have two Meucci butts with a matching OB2 and Z2 shafts.
I have a Bob Renis Dymondwood cue. I have an 8ft Valley bar box I have already started to modify and recover.

If I get a cue, I am looking for understated elegance, but with nicely figured woods, and a good-performing shaft.

I would like to try a very stiff, low-end mass shaft if such a thing exits.

But a new cue is not my only option.

For those of you who have been where I have not yet gone, do you have any recommendations?
 
Still playing with the same cue I bought 5/6 years ago..I would like to have another full splice cue,but my table is about ready for a recover,that would still leave me 600 to gamble with..yep,think I would go with the last.
 
Sorry didn't read the whole post.. since you have just about everything pool.. I would find something else.. like a trip..
 
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Go to some major tournaments. Memories will stay with you longer than the other stuff.
 
NEED no Pool stuff!. If I had an extra $1,000.00 now I would go over the San Diego for about 4 day, see my 89 year old dad, take him to his favorite casing 2 days, and give him $100.00/day to play on..
 
I think a good option would be to finish up the modification of your table and a recover with good cloth. Get the table playing the way you like with some new rails, etc. That would be a great investment and lower your end of what you actually put in it yourself. You should still have some money left over and if you spend it carefully you could always pick up a nice custom cue on here for pretty cheap. Even if you put the cue on hold then after getting the table the way you want, invest in some good billiard lessons. If your serious about pool you can't go wrong with that investment at all. Knowledge is a powerful tool in this game.
 
buy 4 sets of super aramith balls.then you will allways have to explain why you have 4 sets.plus you get to look at them every day.

bill
 
tshughes said:
I think a good option would be to finish up the modification of your table and a recover with good cloth. Get the table playing the way you like with some new rails, etc. That would be a great investment and lower your end of what you actually put in it yourself. You should still have some money left over and if you spend it carefully you could always pick up a nice custom cue on here for pretty cheap. Even if you put the cue on hold then after getting the table the way you want, invest in some good billiard lessons. If your serious about pool you can't go wrong with that investment at all. Knowledge is a powerful tool in this game.
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I like this option. If you're satisfied with your current cues, ask yourself how much you'd really use another one. Get some Simonis, finish your customization, and you'll have a magnificent, one-of-a-kind table to last you a lifetime.
 
If I had an extra $1000.00, how would I spend it?
Well the very first thing I would do is take that money and establish a trust fund. A trust fund that in some small way would help end, once and for all, world hunger as we know it.
After that I would like to get my own apartment. Thank you. :D
 
Shaft said:
I recently received an inheritance. One part of the money came with instructions: it must be spent on something frivolous. (No kidding)

I have two Meucci butts with a matching OB2 and Z2 shafts.
I have a Bob Renis Dymondwood cue. I have an 8ft Valley bar box I have already started to modify and recover.

If I get a cue, I am looking for understated elegance, but with nicely figured woods, and a good-performing shaft.

I would like to try a very stiff, low-end mass shaft if such a thing exits.

But a new cue is not my only option.

For those of you who have been where I have not yet gone, do you have any recommendations?
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Shaft,

If you really are looking for a very stiff, low end mass shaft, PM me
 
Tramp Steamer said:
If I had an extra $1000.00, how would I spend it?
Well the very first thing I would do is take that money and establish a trust fund. A trust fund that in some small way would help end, once and for all, world hunger as we know it.
After that I would like to get my own apartment. Thank you. :D
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Wow, ending world hunger for $1K.

I once won significant prizes from GE when I worked there. The HR manager was a guy that treated us like we were his kids. I told him that I would rather just have the money. He said I didnt really NEED the money, and to get a nice prize instead and keep it forever and think of GE whenever I used it. I got a Browning Citori Over and Under shotgun (worth about $1500 20 years ago). He was right, the money comes and goes but getting something and always thinking of "whatever" is nice too.

If it was greater than 10K, I might suggest something else. But I would recommend using it on something you would keep for the rest of your life, and maybe pass down to your kids.

Best of rolls,
Ken
 
I already possess ALL the Pool-related items I will ever need, so the money
would be spent on a driving trip to visit my old friends and relatives all over the USA.
 
I would go hire a clown to play me. That way when I'm BSing with other like minded pool aficionados I can tell them the story about the time I was playing a REAL clown.

But I voted lessons on the poll though because, surprisingly, there was no clown option.
 
You can get a lot of top shelf instruction for that money. Cues... zzz. The cue is just fork or hammer :)
 
a great playing table with high quality balls.. will do more for your game.. and your enjoyment of it.. than anything else

you already have a decent cue.. another one won't help much.. so complete the package..

a decent cue, on a decent table, with decent balls

sounds like a decent set-up to me:thumbup:

JMO
 
Shaft said:
I recently received an inheritance. One part of the money came with instructions: it must be spent on something frivolous. (No kidding)

I have two Meucci butts with a matching OB2 and Z2 shafts.
I have a Bob Renis Dymondwood cue. I have an 8ft Valley bar box I have already started to modify and recover.

If I get a cue, I am looking for understated elegance, but with nicely figured woods, and a good-performing shaft.

I would like to try a very stiff, low-end mass shaft if such a thing exits.

But a new cue is not my only option.

For those of you who have been where I have not yet gone, do you have any recommendations?
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Add the upgrades to your table (if you can do the recovering and shimming yourself, then that's a huge plus), or upgrade your table completely.

I prefer the cue/case combo, but there are so many great custom cues out there for $1K and under right now; total buyer's market.
 
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