Last Will & Testament Wish For Your Cue(s)

[DJSTEVEZ]

Sooner or later, we will all go to that great Pool Room in the sky...OK, some will go that room full of unlevel, worn cloth, bar boxes in the hot & humid basement.

QUESTION: What do you want done with your prize collection of Cues?

For me, I'd like my sons to have one each, provided they have even a slight appreciation for the game. Yet, part of me would like to have at least one of them (a cue, not one of my sons) mounted in a glass case at a specific pool hall. There's a pool room in New York State that has a few of those on their wall. The place has been open so long I'm thinking that the cues on the wall are from players who were lost during one of several wars.

I would probably settle for just about any arrangement as long as they don't end up in the hands of someone who has no idea what they're worth and has no appreciation for them. -Z-

You?

 

[Tramp Steamer]

One each of the Wonder, and Miracle cues from Steamer Cue Sports Ltd. will be going to the Smithsonian, as per their request.
My current player will eventually hang on the wall at Sally's old place down in Galveston. There's still a speck of doody on it from that fateful night.....(sniff).
Everything else I own will be placed in a shoe box and sent to the Goodwill. :sad:

 

[3andstop]

What a coincidence, I just counted my cues today. 12 cues ...18 shafts, 5 cases. I like the feel of all the cues.

When I die, if my wife got top dollar for all of them, she might be able to pay a couple of months electric bill. :thumbup:

 

[softshot]

As to my cues, Please don't let my wife sell them for what I told her I paid for them.

 

[Cuebuddy]

I have thought about this a fair amount and with four kids it should be easy but I have been collecting cues for forty years and have many. I have talked to my kids and they roughly know which I want them to have as far as my players are concerned.

When it comes to my antiques that's another deal altogether. I will give them each one vintage cue and the rest go with me. Buried or cremated it makes me no never mind.
Joints, weight bolts and teeth shall live on forever!

 

[Cornerman]

One daughter will get the Cuetec R360; the other gets the Huebler SP.

Freddie <~~~ hopes they won't fight over them

 

[pt109]

I'm dividing my bankroll evenly amongst all my cues....and sending them on the road.
...they'll be busting people for generations.

 

[john coloccia]

My wife, and her whole family, collects crap....just old crap. They call it "antiques" but it's really just old, broken crap that someone dropped off at the junk store. I'm constantly cleaning this crap up, boxing it up, storing it, getting rid of it, etc so I don't have to live in a shrine to other people's old, broken crap (or antique, or whatever the F you want to call it).

And then there are the so-called family heirlooms, but most of this is just even older, more broken crap that previous generations hoarded and created shrines to. It's completely ridiculous.

After another round of wasting hours of my life packing up this garbage, I've decided that in my will I am going to specify that all of my personal belonging must be either disposed of or sold, save for certain items that might appreciate in value or can be actively used by one of my girls (so if one of them becomes a woodworker, obviously she can have all of my woodworking equipment), and I'll leave it to the executor's judgement to figure it out. I'm not saddling my children, and their children, with the ridiculous task of caring for my stuff in perpetuity.

 

[mattb]

Taking it with you

I am taking one with me. I have left instructions for one to go with me to that great pool hall in the sky. The others go to my son. He knows they are worth something but in the end he may do whatever he likes with them. He is not much into pool at this time but maybe that will change as he gets older.

 

[Cracktherack]

My sister is an avid player, so I sent her a pretty nice old school Dufferin, since she had no cue of her own. It had a sweet hit to it. A couple months later I asked how it was playing for her. She replied "I was on my way home with a car load of groceries when my neighbor hit his brakes right in front of me and my groceries flew all over the car. I was so mad, I took the heavy part of my pool cue and smashed his mailbox flat. That ruined the fat part of the cue."
My brother would have done something similar, only with a quarter stick.
I'll never rest well in the grave if either one gets my Scruggs.

 

[Type79]

That they all go to a good and deserving dumpster.

 

[RiverCity]

I am going to tell my daughter that I want her to keep all of my stuff on display...... like a shrine of sorts. Her reaction will be pretty funny Im betting. :grin-square:

 

[book collector]

Sooner or later, we will all go to that great Pool Room in the sky...OK, some will go that room full of unlevel, worn cloth, bar boxes in the hot & humid basement.

QUESTION: What do you want done with your prize collection of Cues?

For me, I'd like my sons to have one each, provided they have even a slight appreciation for the game. Yet, part of me would like to have at least one of them (a cue, not one of my sons) mounted in a glass case at a specific pool hall. There's a pool room in New York State that has a few of those on their wall. The place has been open so long I'm thinking that the cues on the wall are from players who were lost during one of several wars.

I would probably settle for just about any arrangement as long as they don't end up in the hands of someone who has no idea what they're worth and has no appreciation for them. -Z-

You?

In 2016 2 hours after you are dead , the cue would be sold.

 

[GoldCrown]

The Doc Frye goes to my best friend. Not that he plays. I might take the rest with me for the afterlife....... with my jazz collection.

 

[asiasdad]

They go to my daughter with the names and phone numbers of
people who she can trust to help her dispose of them.

 

[Chopdoc]

The kid I am teaching pool to gets my Joss and my Huebler. He also get's The Fellini with the Joss and the Huebler case with the Huebler.

I gave him a Joss to get started, and an inexpensive break cue.

The rest will be sold.

If for any reason he does not get the cue, as in he dies in an accident before me, I will be buried with my Joss.





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[Bavafongoul]

Thrilled To Own & Pass Along a Collection of Flat Ivory Joint Cues

All of my cues go to my children except for two pool cues.which are committed to players who are my closest friends.
The Scruggs cue will go to Tommy Hill. He's approached me countless times to either trade cues with him or just sell mine.
The newest Jerry Rauenzahn will go to Scott Lokey who's been my friend for 30+years......the rest go to my 4 kids.


I have purposefully had Bob Owen and Jerry Rauenzahn sign & date my cues using dates that coincided with the cue's
completion but also had great personal significance, i.e. my kid's b-days. My Runde Schon must go to my son since he is
Matthew M. the 7th & I'm Matthew M. the 6th so it goes to him plus another cue as there's plenty of ivory joint cues to share.


I think having personally designed 4 of my cues, and including the cue-maker's signature and date, will only increase my
children's sentimental attachment for my pool cues. And being mostly flat ivory cue joints, the rarity of these cues over ensuing
decades seems pretty obvious.........despite what others may write, the flat ivory cue joint is truly the piece de' resistance.



Matt B.

 

[pwd72s]

I'll be dead. I won't care what happens to my earthly stuff.

 

[tommyhill]

First of all, To Matt... as much as I love that Scruggs cue and would love to make that my daily Player I hope to God it takes a good while before it becomes mine. Now for my cues. My Gus goes to my oldest son TJ. My Guido Orlandi goes to my son Connor. The rest will go to my wife to sell and do what she needs to with the cash.

 

[cueandcushion]

All my cues and guns are categorized on a list of my friends. At least the friends I like.