What cue is Buddy Hall using?

bbb said:
thanks ..i needed that....:grin:
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It was still a dickish comment, a response to something that only existed in your mind.

He didnt say or even imply the cue would have any influence on his game. That was all you.

No sweat though, i know i have done the same too.
 
Get_A_Grip said:
I grew a beard like Buddy, and I played just like him that night.
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I have a beard like Buddy (well, maybe not as awesome, but still) and I've never played like Buddy even for a night. Maybe I need to shave it off and grow it back. Anything just to play like that for a night!

Although, the memory of having played like Buddy for one night might make me even more frustrated with my incompetence. Sounds like a good Twilight Zone story - guy wishes to play like the best player in the world for a night, gets his wish and is miserable for the rest of his life because he remembers what it was like to play like God for a brief shinning moment.
 
I'm guessing its a Bludworth. Last year he sent him the two he had left and one was similar. I'll ask him today if he's at the pool room
 
There is no guessing,that cue in the pic was 100% Bludworth. I saw him at that Willard's tournament where the pic was taken,and there was a Bludworth ad in that issue of BD that showed that cue plus 2 or 3 others in different color schemes.

I've probably seen him play in person 30 times in my life and unless the dates were within a year of each other,never seen him with the same cue twice.

Same goes for another player of the same era,Jose Parica LOL. Tommy D.
 
crabbcatjohn said:
I'm guessing its a Bludworth. Last year he sent him the two he had left and one was similar. I'll ask him today if he's at the pool room
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If it's the Bludworth I remember, the linen grip extended almost to the butt plate...
...I liked the idea so much, I had Mike Johnson make me one like it.
...I hold the cue long a lot.
 
I remember a story from W. W. Woody's book on Buddy Hall ("Rags to Rifleman"). The year was around 1990 plus or minus one or two. Buddy won a tournament somewhere and a spectator offered him a too-good-to-refuse price for his cue. Buddy sold it. Soon thereafter, Buddy was to play a series of tournaments on the Florida tour. He still didn't own a cue. So what he did was buy a new cue at the start of each tournament and then auction it off after the tournament. He won something like seven tournaments in a row doing this.




[Repeated from about 8 years ago.]
 
bbb said:
who cares ????
do you think if you bought a cue from that cuemaker you woud play like buddy??
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since my post is quoted below i cant delete it
but i can apologize since it is too abrasive and unnecessary.....:o:o:o
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Saw the apology, so cool. But the initial response may be why pro players can't be bothered to come here.
 
Buddy Hall cue

Thank you Crabb. for confirmation.

I'm hardly a Professional player Rickshultz, when one travels to Asia and sees the level there it humbles you, let's just put it this way.

I'm used to quick replies like that and being grilled once in a while over different subjects,it's ok. AZB Forum and FB comments and rants are not like real life.I no longer take anything personal, and I'm not scared of being wrong.

Thanks all for your two cents
 
Tommy-D said:
There is no guessing,that cue in the pic was 100% Bludworth. I saw him at that Willard's tournament where the pic was taken,and there was a Bludworth ad in that issue of BD that showed that cue plus 2 or 3 others in different color schemes.

I've probably seen him play in person 30 times in my life and unless the dates were within a year of each other,never seen him with the same cue twice.

Same goes for another player of the same era,Jose Parica LOL. Tommy D.
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Thanks for the memory. I was at that Willard tournaments and did not conect with the BD cover when I saw it.

We had some great pro tournaments in the Chicago area during that time, I miss them.
 
AtLarge said:
I remember a story from W. W. Woody's book on Buddy Hall ("Rags to Rifleman"). The year was around 1990 plus or minus one or two. Buddy won a tournament somewhere and a spectator offered him a too-good-to-refuse price for his cue. Buddy sold it. Soon thereafter, Buddy was to play a series of tournaments on the Florida tour. He still didn't own a cue. So what he did was buy a new cue at the start of each tournament and then auction it off after the tournament. He won something like seven tournaments in a row doing this.




[Repeated from about 8 years ago.]
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That is a really cool, and interesting story. I imagine the cues auctioned off for a pretty good profit for Buddy (after he won the tournament, using that cue).
 
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