Married to your cue, or play with your 1 and only?

I have a few cues, i do have my normal player... But i tend to switch the cues up depending on my mood and how loose or stiff i am..... i also switch depending on what i have been practicing / or what game i may be playing.
 
I only have one cue now. My Lambros.

I do have some old brunswick cues around for decoration though...
 
I'm married to 1 cue and I won't change. I first started with a Cuetec cue (serious cue for a serious player heh!) then I switched to Connoisseur(canadian line for Falcon) when I got more experience with the game. One day I asked the local cue tech/repair guy if we had any other cuemakers in the area besides Cuemaker X(don't want to name it for reputation) and he told me about EB (Eric Brissette) and he happened to have one for sale and I tried it. It was very different from anything I had tried, no steel in the joint, radial pin and laminated shaft. I fell in love with it and I bought it. After an unfortunate event, it got broken so I was looking for a new cue but in the end I asked him to build one for me with the specs I wanted and I regained my confidence in an instant.
 
I have 3 playing cues, but I usually play with the same cue (it's wrapless and my other cues have linen and leather wraps). I used to switch back and forth between cues, but I think i'm better off sticking with one cue most of the time.

James
 
I only have 1 good cue and 1 break cue. If I had more I'd probably rotate. My other cues are the freebie garbage cues that came with the table - good for when the kids play but otherwise worthless. I wish I still had my old McDermott, I'd probably use it on occasion.
 
I have been "married" to my 69-72 Joss since I purchased from a local player in 1988. The first cue I ever bought was a new Adam in '87 when I first started playing - it became (& still is) my break cue.

I have another unidentified cue that is probably from 40's or 50's based on it's history and it shares time approx 15% with the Joss.

AND I have a Scruggs on the way - can not wait :grin:
 
habitually unfaithful !

I have had my John Robinson since 1984 , I love it to pieces , shoot tournaments with it exclusively . :cool:
But I can't/won't bring myself to leave it in the truck , so it stays home a lot . I have an Adam that I can keep in the truck with no remorse ! Also , I have a modest assortment of high - quality cues on the wall at home .

But I'm not faithful to any of those cues! Because there's money in them there Wallabushkas ! Put me in a strange place , far from home , and . . . .
"what ? shoot pool ? I guess so . . . are those the sticks over there ? is this yours , or , uh , can anybody use it ?" :grin-devilish:
 
I have 3 main playing cues and one break cue. I have a poison AR-5 which was my first serious cue. I slapped a Kamui M on it and with the OEM shaft it plays fantastic for the money. The Kamui gives me a lot of action and the LD shaft lets me get the cueball around the table.

My other cue is an 80s Mali. It's basically the exact opposite of my Poison. It's very traditional and hits like it too. It's got a real stiff hit but shoots straight like a sniper rifle.

I also have a Predator SP with a Z2 shaft that I just bought mostly because i like the SP style and I got a good deal on it. I'm not yet sure where this cue will sit in my lineup.

Before the SP I regularly shot with both cues. They are so different that it all depends on how I'm feeling. Do I want the old school no frills action, or do I want the modern full of technology stuff. I don't believe there is just one cue for you. The cue finds you and when it does, you can't ignore it. I bought my Mali for $150 but I honestly wouldn't sell it for anything less than $1,000. It's got body and soul.

You're not married to your cue. Your wife may think otherwise though...
 
I have 4 Schulers. I played with one for 19 years. It had a smoke stained birdseye forearm and somebody asked me 2 weeks after I got it if it was a Meucci. I swore I'd get another that didn't look like a Meucci. I finally got an unstained cue last year. My girlfriend got me another for Christmas that has oodles of inlays. I play with it most of the time. I can use that shaft on all of them and it plays the same. They're all within half an ounce of each other. I have one plain Jane oak cue that I can take slumming.
 
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