Musical Cues, Try it for a week

Shooter08

Shooter08

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Has anybody ever had the idea to get 10 people each to buy a custom cue for Xxxx number of dollars and if your in, one new cue comes to you every two weeks. You in turn forward your cue. When a keeper comes around you tag out and the cue is yours and so on. Be interesting to see if someone settles and misses out something better. This sounds like a plan for Deanoc to promote. Or am I just crazy?
 
Has anybody ever had the idea to get 10 people each to buy a custom cue.
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Nope. Apparently you are the first one.

What don't you promote it. After all, it is your idea. Then you'll see how much fun it is.
 
Is that a TS on the butt of the cue in your avatar? Would you let nine other somebody's play with it? Shit, my best cue is a Schon and some custom sneaky's and I hide them in cases on top of a 7' book case, and that's from my friends. I even hide my McDermott sneaky.

I got freaked when a R360 shaft got dinged on a light. That guy has never been back.
 
Each guy invests the same (or as close to it as possible) amount of dollars in a new cue, than they start to rotate through, if you beat the crap out of the cue, you are stuck with it. If you like the cue you drop out of the musical cues and keep it. I would not imagine someone who would get in on this would be a cue abuser and all cues would be new to start. No I would not use my TS in this, but I would use a new Harris or Runde or something in a predetermined price range.
 
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Buzzard II said:
Is that a TS on the butt of the cue in your avatar? Would you let nine other somebody's play with it? Shit, my best cue is a Schon and some custom sneaky's and I hide them in cases on top of a 7' book case, and that's from my friends. I even hide my McDermott sneaky.

I got freaked when a R360 shaft got dinged on a light. That guy has never been back.
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A wet band aid over the ding and it will swell the ding out of the shaft, as long as the wood has a dent in it, if the wood is cut nothing works.....................
This method works really good on solid shafts.
I don't think this method should be used on a laminated shafts.... in less the shaft belongs to some one else. :D
 
shooter08 said:
has anybody ever had the idea to get 10 people each to buy a custom cue for xxxx number of dollars and if your in, one new cue comes to you every two weeks. You in turn forward your cue. When a keeper comes around you tag out and the cue is yours and so on. Be interesting to see if someone settles and misses out something better. This sounds like a plan for deanoc to promote. Or am i just crazy?
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you asked.

I think your just crazy.

I DON'T THINK IT WOULD WORK OUT WELL AT ALL.

Slim
 
Ok, you pay $1000 for a custom.

You get stuck with one of those ugly stained Wildwood cues with the blue ripples.

You are not happy.

You can't sell it for $800.

You rant all day on the forum.
 
MMike, Thanks for the fix it advice, I'll keep it in mind for when it might be needed. I never liked the way the Cuetec played anyway so it's on my loaner rack. It whacked the light so hard a soaked trauma pack for a sucking chest wound would not work.

As far as the other people involved in this exchange idea not being cue abusers go, ya just never know, until it's to late.

20 years ago I was vice president of a motorcycle club that had, at that time, 175 members. I can think of three who I would let ride my bike. Not that they would ask, but I would trust them. When people have another persons stuff, strange things happen.
 
Shooter08 said:
Has anybody ever had the idea to get 10 people each to buy a custom cue for Xxxx number of dollars and if your in, one new cue comes to you every two weeks. You in turn forward your cue. When a keeper comes around you tag out and the cue is yours and so on. Be interesting to see if someone settles and misses out something better. This sounds like a plan for Deanoc to promote. Or am I just crazy?
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Last year I tried something similar but with only one cue.
It all started with the guy who accused everybody on the planet of having his stolen Phillippi cue.
I proposed that whoever has the stolen Phillippi to send it to me, I will play with it for a
week, pass it off to the other AZer's in Colorado, then on the next state.
By the year 2042 if everything went as planned, every single AZer in North America
and parts of Saskatchewan would of had possession of the Phillippi for at least a week.

Now with the proposed ivory ban these interstate "play it forward" cue deals could take a while>>:smile:
 
Terrible Idea......

You did ask....

So when the cue arrives, do you know what the other 10-11 cues look like or what they weigh or the shaft sizes or wrap....and the cue that comes first, I imagine you have no say in which cue arrives first. So if you like the design but dislike the weight, you pass on the hope something better comes along but the better one you'd like never arrives because some other guy decides it's the one he wants and so he keeps it and drops out.

You're asking to play musical chairs to wind up with a cue you may not even like.......just in the hope that you might wind up with a cue you might like? And pray that the specs are what you want?

You're off your rocker......what an absolutely horrible idea but nonetheless, a amusing way to gamble away your cue purchase funds.

Matt B.
 
Shooter,

Many years ago, AZ Billiards asked several cue makers build the same basic cue to their own specs. The cues were then sent around to AZ members to try. Remember spending an nearly a week rotating through the cues. The one I chose as the "best" for me turned out to be an Eric Crisp cue. Seem to remember them all being plain janes. My memory is not the best. Hope someone's is better than mine.

Lyn
 
Isn't there a polite way to express your opnion?

Bavafongoul said:
You did ask....

So when the cue arrives, do you know what the other 10-11 cues look like or what they weigh or the shaft sizes or wrap....and the cue that comes first, I imagine you have no say in which cue arrives first. So if you like the design but dislike the weight, you pass on the hope something better comes along but the better one you'd like never arrives because some other guy decides it's the one he wants and so he keeps it and drops out.

You're asking to play musical chairs to wind up with a cue you may not even like.......just in the hope that you might wind up with a cue you might like? And pray that the specs are what you want?

You're off your rocker......what an absolutely horrible idea but nonetheless, a amusing way to gamble away your cue purchase funds.

Matt B.
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Matt B, you commision a cue to your personal specs at a predetermined price. 9 others do the same, when your cue is complete you send it to me, I send mine to the next guy, etc. after two weeks you decide you want to keep what you got that someone else ordered, or you try to hold out for however many rotations for what you actually ordered. Here's the catch week 8 you get something you like better Than what you commissioned so you drop out and keep it. Hence musical cues. In the event someone abuses a cue they are stuck with out a seat and have to keep it.
 
Buzzard II said:
20 years ago I was vice president of a motorcycle club that had, at that time, 175 members. I can think of three who I would let ride my bike. Not that they would ask, but I would trust them. When people have another persons stuff, strange things happen.
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A bit off-topic, but since you mentioned loaning your bike to another club member, here goes.

Back in 1978 I was running an Foreign Car Dealership that sold Ferrari, Maserati,
Jaguar, Bentley, Rolls-Royce, and other British Leyland Brands.
One of my best mechanics had just completed college (night school) and was to
be awarded his Degree on Friday night. He paid our Detailers to Shine up his old
Fiat 124 Spider, but I had other plans for him.
I called him into the office on Thursday and handed him the keys to my 1966 Ferrari
275GTB4 Competezione (1 of only 6 built) and said have a wonderful evening on Friday.
I was sweating bullets all night until I heard him pull into my driveway at about 1 a.m.
The ear-to-ear smile on his face showed his appreciation.
 
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TwoRailDave said:
Isn't there a polite way to express your opnion?
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Matt takes his personal pool cues a little more seriously than most people, and he gets
emotional with any mention of sending one to somebody else.
I'm the same way.
For instance I sold a cue last night and I'm pretty pissed off about it.
I was thinking about asking Matt to send the buyer a pm to explain that it's way too much
cue for, him, and to go out and buy his own ****ing cue...like a Meucci or an import, or both>>:smile:
 
I would never do it unless maybe it's with a group of friends and everything can be hand delivered. I've had mistakes happen with every delivery outlet to be a bit untrusting until I have the item in hand. I would be to afraid to ship who knows how many times. Also if I was going the custom route I would want something built for me and not have a chance of getting something I hate. Just my .02, but I'm somewhat of a nit so take it for what it's worth. :)
 
I think a better idea is to have 10 guys who live reasonably close together or will all be at DCC or SBE bring in customs they've had built in the last 5 years...shoot a roundrobin with all the cues, then have them review them here on AZB. The earlier mentioned blind reviews of 10 makers building the same basic spec cue was one of the coolest things I've read on here...having 10 guys rank 10 makers' cues and some builders will stand out and then you've got some useful information on cuemakers' quality for a change.

The musical cue idea is interesting, but someone will inevitably get screwed...
 
Doesn't seem as it if would work. Everyone is investing the same amount. Play with the cue and if you like it you tag it. The first cue I play with I like and tag so it is now out of the selection. Does everyone else get to play with it and can I still play with the other cues as there may be one that I like better or maybe everyone likes the same one that I tagged. What happens to the cues that nobody wants? They now have to be sold and most likely for a loss.

The biggest problem is finding 10 people to invest or have the money to do that


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If you tag a cue, you don't get to see the rest until the last guy gets stuck with the last cue. That is where the excitement is at, worst case you still get a cue for the money you invested. It is kinda like buying a cue from Deanoc for 1k sight unseen. Haven't heard any complaints on those yet.
 
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