Yep.
Back in the day that was the trick. To hide it in plain sight.
I'd also place a little mark on it so I could find it again when someone else ultimately found and moved it...
I know this been ask before about one piece cue? But who got a one piece cue hidden away in a Bar or Pool Room?
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Back in the day that was the trick. To hide it in plain sight.
I'd also place a little mark on it so I could find it again when someone else ultimately found and moved it...
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Before I had my own cue, I used to play regularly at this bar in NYC, they had only one house cue that was light at 18oz and it was a bit warped, but it was the cue I played best with.
The owner of the bar that was a friend and later became my APA team captain let me put it in the manager office so it became my personal cue…
I also kept my own cue at the office instead of carrying it with me home and back.
After my team got me my first cue, it went back to the rack. I still used it when I was too lazy to go get my cue from the office until someone broke it.
The owner of the bar that was a friend and later became my APA team captain let me put it in the manager office so it became my personal cue…
I also kept my own cue at the office instead of carrying it with me home and back.
After my team got me my first cue, it went back to the rack. I still used it when I was too lazy to go get my cue from the office until someone broke it.
When I was 16 or 17 I had a house cue I liked behind the candy machine. Then I got my first cue and never used a house cue again.
When I was a kid my father used to always experimented with house cues trying to find the magic formula. He had one particularly heavy house cue that he drilled holes evenly up & down the handle all the way around - at least 40 holes. He then put screws at different points to change the balance and weight. When he found what he liked he removed the screws and filled those holes with lesser amounts of lead. It was the ugliest thing you’d ever lay eyes on - pockmarked with holes all over that cue, scared with burn spots from from the lead - looked like a bad piece of Swiss cheese, but he loved that cue and would take it with him to the bars. My mom used to tell him “you have all those nice cues and you play with that ugly thing… they’re going to think you’re crazy” and my dad would tell her “that’s okay me… let them think I’m crazy” lol We moved around a lot and never knew what ever happened to it. He still talks about that cue and how much he liked it.
Are you Dr Cue's Protege's long lost brother?
Nice reading!
Sorry, answer is NO!
Like putting Strawberries on a Pig. Nice cue in some of those places?? Tables are shit, cloth torn w beer stains everywhere, powder marks on everything. I'm pulling out my Scruggs?? Oh yeah.
The cue that I fixed up with the LePro tip from Jack Taylor was a Brunswick ebony 21 ounce house cue with a 14mm shaft.
That was the same specs that he had on his.
In those days, most places had lousy A/C, if any, and slow cloth, which made moving the balls a lot harder than today; especially, the bar tables with the oversized cue ball.
Heavier cues were the norm back then.
I had all my custom cues made to those specs for years.
This is the first one I had made in 1973. I still have it.
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Man that’s a beauty!
Yes sounds about right. Though my dad’s table wasn’t a coin op. and it was an oversized 8 footer. He played with the big cue ball and magnetic like he’d see at the bars.
Yeah, but then they'd go and put a $150 rhino CF on it
