The holy **** pool cue?
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This is a question just for fun and curiosity
If you walked into a pool room, what pool cue would make you stop and say "holy **** is that a ..... ?"
Any why? rare? unique? expensive?
I walked into someone's house who happened to have a pool table. i looked on the table and there was an 8 point blackboar with inlays and ivory everywhere!!!!!!
he had a plane one on the wall rack!!!!!
TheThaiger
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Hmm... I don't recall any videos or audio files being attached to any of the aforementioned posts where us -- "the lot" -- were prounouncing the word "Python."
Or... is this merely a disgruntled Brit (read: "what happened to us? we used to rule the world!") trying to get an opportunistic but meager jab at us "colonists"?
-Sean
Just trying to help, Sean.
who makes the feathers?
Holy cow!!
I might know that guy.....:wink: hope you been well. I know a guy with a dusty Boar nowdays, I aint hit a ball in 2 months. Feels good to be away from pool a while, I'll be back......
This may be a weird one but I get more comments around here for my cocobolo/birdseye maple (no inlays, no points, no feathers, no wrap) than any of the guys I play with for their ornate cues. I like a simple cue. The feathers are inlays and whatever else are awesome-looking, but I like a cue that doesn't distract me while I'm playing with it. :grin-square:
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Shoebat
I had sort of a "holy crap" moment just recently.
I was listening in on one older man talking at another. He was a cue collector, and he was talking about all sorts of big name historical cues that he owned, and how he'd actually been inside the shops of these cuemakers, way back in the day. Then he pulls out a "so what" vinyl soft case and from that, he produced an old cue that he said was from the '40s (I think- he mumbled a bit). It had no wrap, no wood handle- but where you held the cue, it was 10 thick graduated, tapered pieces of ivory, each about 1- 1.5 inches long. Strangest thing.
Then he says that he also has a collection of old maces, too. Wow! I really wanted to see a mace- he described them, their shape, uses, and their evolution to a cue, etc., to his friend, who really didn't seem to have much interest, but man, I was right there- interested eavesdropper! Never seen a mace in real life- only drawings and descriptions.
Anyway, that was more a holy crap moment, rather than a holy grail/ excalibur moment. And eavesdropping is often much more fun than direct conversation.
I was listening in on one older man talking at another. He was a cue collector, and he was talking about all sorts of big name historical cues that he owned, and how he'd actually been inside the shops of these cuemakers, way back in the day. Then he pulls out a "so what" vinyl soft case and from that, he produced an old cue that he said was from the '40s (I think- he mumbled a bit). It had no wrap, no wood handle- but where you held the cue, it was 10 thick graduated, tapered pieces of ivory, each about 1- 1.5 inches long. Strangest thing.
Then he says that he also has a collection of old maces, too. Wow! I really wanted to see a mace- he described them, their shape, uses, and their evolution to a cue, etc., to his friend, who really didn't seem to have much interest, but man, I was right there- interested eavesdropper! Never seen a mace in real life- only drawings and descriptions.
Anyway, that was more a holy crap moment, rather than a holy grail/ excalibur moment. And eavesdropping is often much more fun than direct conversation.
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Shoebat
That handle in the pic is exactly what I was trying to describe. Thanks! He was saying that there were only 10 or 12 of these that were documented in existence, so I was especially surprised when he later said he had that other similar one at home.
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