Fatboy said:
Second to storing your cue in the swimming pool, keeping your cue in the car is the worst place to store it. Accidents happen, if its still straight, just have it refinished and you'll be fine and lession learned.
Well here's basically what happened (and perhaps an insight into how my puny brain works). Since I was driving my two seater (the "spit-loogie" roadster for those who remember that episode) I didn't have much space and thus decided to only bring one cue in a 1x1 case that would fit nicely behind the roll-bar, directly below the rear (plastic) window. But since I also brought a poop-load of expensive film/video equipment that I needed to guard with my life, I simply forgot that I initially put the cue there. Actually, it didn't dawn on me until one day after coming back from L.A. that the cue was still in my car.
Bigjohn said:
You are hereby banned from owning cues of any value for 90 days.
-cue police-
The irony is that I've almost been religious about not leaving my cues in the car, day or night, but I guess I have now contracted some sort of dementia, perhaps Alzheimer's Light -- hence, I'll accept that 90 days penalty Bigjohn (aka the Cue Police) issued, unless I receive my super-swank custom Parris before then, (which isn't very likely since I've now been waiting for that thing for over 9 months ;^\
Anywho, for those how don't know me in person, I can also tell that there's almost no connection between my brain and my impulsions -- for instance, in the middle of the night I often get this urge to work on and/or "modify" stuff, whether it's furniture, clothes, motorcycle, or my cues, there seem to always be something that "needs" to be fixed when I'm supposed to sleep. As a kid they blamed this behavior on excessive sleepwalking & sleep deprivation, nowadays I think the only excuse is insanity. So in this case, in the middle of the night, I got some varnish remover and started to strip the lacquer off the cue... and about 9 hours later I had a cue with no varnish... looking like hell.
As soon as I came to my senses, I contacted Ryan Theewen (Ratcues) and I'm now in the process of convincing him to refinish it (he knows this cue from before) -- the sticky point, however, are the delicate leather strips wrapping. (Btw, if there are other cuemakers around who think they can & will do this, feel free to PM me.)
-- peer