what cues do you regret letting go?

years ago i had a Koa Kikel with huge ivory points,they looked like slabs.there is another cue that has pictured on many websites that looks like for $25000,but it has hundreds of shell inlays.my cue was in the $4000 range and is was a great playing cue,i also regret selling my ivory jointed and inlayed BZ and a 9 point Kers/SW i had was nice too and a player.and i also miss the Cambodian/Koa cue that i made for myself and sold to Jazz a few months ago.i played with it for a few months and i really liked the way it played.those are the ones that stand out.

i briefly regret selling all the ones i make right when i sell them.the degenerate cue collector in me wants to keep them all just to try out.
 
I sold 2 Hicks Sticks that hit great a couple years ago. Jeff was a friend, so I figured he could always make me more. Then he died a couple months ago.

I should have kept a couple of the Balabushkas I've sold, and a fancy Gus in mint original condition with the original shipping box.
 
An early 90's Hoppe style Scruggs cue with 4-ebony ponts, signed by Tim on the forearm. It was the best playing Scruggs cue i've ever seen. I traded it for a Jim Buss cue that I still own. I had several Scruggs cues, and wanted a Buss for my collection but I should have kept the Scruggs.
 
cubswin said:
Just curious what cues you honestly regret letting go. I know I sell cues when I'm in a pinch and need some cash. Also sell cues just for the hell of it.

Ones I regret letting go of are d-17 that was one of the nicest hitting cues I've owned. A scruggs sneaky I picked up new back in about 99. Sugartree and Bautista sneaky's, and Mason Houghland merry widow cue. The Mason merry widow may well have been the best hitting cue I've ever owned.

The d17 I traded back in about 90, really wish I had kept it. Had a stained j-18 at the same time that I sometimes miss.

The other couple 100 cues I don't really miss all that much.
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it is nowhere near the best cue out there, but i wish i would have never gotten rid of my Huebler sneaky pete that i played with years ago - loved that thing.:)
 
cubswin said:
such as what?
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Top 6 would probably have to be (and they also reveal what a sucker I am for the classics) the following: CP fancy 8 prong ebony & ivory, G.Szam real clean 6-window cue, B.Szam hoppe rosewood with Bushka style ivory inlays in the butt sleeve, two nice inlaid Burton Spains, and yes, a Coker. Ironically, to date the best "playing cue" that I've ever owned was a Coker....made around 1997-98.
 
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Sadly

2003 SW Satin (stolen)

Ed Young purpleheart merrywidow

Original Ernie Martinez 6 point SW style

Mike Stacey Break Jump...played tremendous, was going to buy it back but one of the 4 successors retapered the shaft and now it plays like Shiat
 
I did a deal with John McChesney for a Cognoscenti Shushiedo ebony and ivory. That cue hit a ton. I sold the cue to pay for an engagement ring.
I miss that cue's hit...
 
THIS ONE....

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I'M NOT A BIG CONVERSION GUY, BUT THIS ONE PLAYED GREAT.
 
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Richard Black

Back in 1998 I bought a 4 point Richard Black w/2 shafts from a friend who was desperate for some cash for $400. I didn't know much about about custom cues back then so I re-sold it for the same price a few months later to buy a Predator :( .....
Boy, I'll regret that til the day I die.
 
I had a 8pt peterson loaded with ivory, like a 8 poimg Gus, different dezigsn of course but loaded probably 70-90 inlays on the but sleeve, points, end of ponts , not counting the joint or ring work all hand cut points were spot in, everythimg was perfect, I didnt know what I had, after a coulpe trades I end with fancy with 2 Gina Cues I traded for a 8pt Tad thats worth 20% less than 92 when I had the Peterson, man the Tad market is bad right now. Which sucks I own 12 of them or there abouts, i'm not selling but I hate losing $$$, i do love TAD's no matter what the price.

i missed a $300 Gus once the guy said take it and pay me in a month, 5 ebony points into BEM no veneers, I didnt like oweing $$ so i passed, I am still sick about that one.

also GSB #1 who a friend just bought for a pile of $$$, I was there they opened the shipping container, and said go play with it, so I grabbed the tan chalk washed up and played about 45 minutes, i never heard of Barry and though it was a a jive deal, $6500 I had it in my pocket, its worth many times that now many many times, less than $100,000. If I didnt have the $$$ then so wht? but I did. And it dosent look great just average but wow it playes great, I would have used the hell out of that cue had I bought it, I'm glad my friend has it now, I doubt I ever would have sold it, If the internet was around then I would have owned it, but word moved around slow and innacurate because so many layers between the source and the guy at the last to hear it might get 20% good info.

so there are my wish I kept it or missed the boat(which would make a good thread too).
 
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I had a 8pt peterson loaded with ivory, like a 8 poimg Gus, different dezigsn of course but loaded probably 70-90 inlays on the but sleeve, points, end of ponts , not counting the joint or ring work all hand cut points were spot in, everythimg was perfect, I didnt know what I had, after a coulpe trades I end with fancy with 2 Gina Cues I traded for a 8pt Tad thats worth 20% less than 92 when I had the Peterson, man the Tad market is bad right now. Which sucks I own 12 of them or there abouts, i'm not selling but I hate losing $$$, i do love TAD's no matter what the price.
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Oh dear lord. I'd be on Prozak thinking I let a Petersen go.
Of all the cues a friend of mine has in his collection, his Petersen look and hit the sweetest.
 
Traded my Searing.. Played great and now i have to wait for qutie awhile before my turn is up..
 
In the last year, I've sold/traded a MONSTER BEM Scruggs player and a 6-point Ebony-into-maple Steve Klein player. I regretted letting both of them go.....

Fortunately for me....I have them BOTH back now!! :) ;)

There have been others that I wished I could have held on to....like a BEM SW cue with ivory ferrules, a level 5 Jensen, a Schick Titlist, and a few others....

Can't keep 'em all.......

Well, I can't, anyway. :o :o
 
JoeyInCali said:
Oh dear lord. I'd be on Prozak thinking I let a Petersen go.
Of all the cues a friend of mine has in his collection, his Petersen look and hit the sweetest.
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I tried to REP you on that post, I will when it lets me, for some reasdon I cant rep people very often any more sometimes it takes 2 or 3 weeks, pisses me off I see a good post and I want to REP it and cant, oh well I catch you later, but this is REP for now, anyways enough about that:


And YES!!!!!!!:banghead: :crying: I was beyond depressed when I realized a couple years later what I had done. At the time it was a ok trade kinda. The cue played JAM up. I drew a pic of it which is short of a miricle like the occasional post where all my spelling is correct, I wanted to FAX it to a guy and the drawing came out damn near perfect to the cue, I might know where that drawing is I never threw it away, I have a few old boxes at a house I let a guy live in, i'm 56.69823% sure its in one of 3 boxes, I cant remember the design but there was ivory everywhere, and I had Jerry Franklyn refinish it, Jerry did it personally in a couple weeks for me, now I'm getting really pissed, forget the price think of the history. they need the little smily face that shoots himself<insert here>.

Fatboy :(
 
Fatboy said:
I tried to REP you on that post, I will when it lets me, for some reasdon I cant rep people very often any more sometimes it takes 2 or 3 weeks, pisses me off I see a good post and I want to REP it and cant, oh well I catch you later, but this is REP for now, anyways enough about that:


And YES!!!!!!!:banghead: :crying: I was beyond depressed when I realized a couple years later what I had done. At the time it was a ok trade kinda. The cue played JAM up. I drew a pic of it which is short of a miricle like the occasional post where all my spelling is correct, I wanted to FAX it to a guy and the drawing came out damn near perfect to the cue, I might know where that drawing is I never threw it away, I have a few old boxes at a house I let a guy live in, i'm 56.69823% sure its in one of 3 boxes, I cant remember the design but there was ivory everywhere, and I had Jerry Franklyn refinish it, Jerry did it personally in a couple weeks for me, now I'm getting really pissed, forget the price think of the history. they need the little smily face that shoots himself<insert here>.

Fatboy :(
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Eric, why do you think there's not a huge following on CP cues ?? IMHO they are absolutely some of the finest that have EVER been made. You can't pick one up that wasn't a super player....fancy or plain. That man was an absolute genius when it came to putting a cue together right for solid playability. He's sort of a mystery....
 
Fatboy said:
I had a 8pt peterson loaded with ivory, like a 8 poimg Gus, different dezigsn of course but loaded probably 70-90 inlays on the but sleeve, points, end of ponts , not counting the joint or ring work all hand cut points were spot in, everythimg was perfect, I didnt know what I had, after a coulpe trades I end with fancy with 2 Gina Cues I traded for a 8pt Tad thats worth 20% less than 92 when I had the Peterson, man the Tad market is bad right now. Which sucks I own 12 of them or there abouts, i'm not selling but I hate losing $$$, i do love TAD's no matter what the price.

i missed a $300 Gus once the guy said take it and pay me in a month, 5 ebony points into BEM no veneers, I didnt like oweing $$ so i passed, I am still sick about that one.

also GSB #1 who a friend just bought for a pile of $$$, I was there they opened the shipping container, and said go play with it, so I grabbed the tan chalk washed up and played about 45 minutes, i never heard of Barry and though it was a a jive deal, $6500 I had it in my pocket, its worth many times that now many many times, less than $100,000. If I didnt have the $$$ then so wht? but I did. And it dosent look great just average but wow it playes great, I would have used the hell out of that cue had I bought it, I'm glad my friend has it now, I doubt I ever would have sold it, If the internet was around then I would have owned it, but word moved around slow and innacurate because so many layers between the source and the guy at the last to hear it might get 20% good info.

so there are my wish I kept it or missed the boat(which would make a good thread too).
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I can tell you that GSB #1 was a keeper. I also had a shot from the original owner when we had it. *Ouch*.. it's a good thing I can resist the temptation to collect, because they would have been like Pokemon, "gotta catch em all"...

JV
 
cueaddicts said:
Eric, why do you think there's not a huge following on CP cues ?? IMHO they are absolutely some of the finest that have EVER been made. You can't pick one up that wasn't a super player....fancy or plain. That man was an absolute genius when it came to putting a cue together right for solid playability. He's sort of a mystery....
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The man might have been the most underappreciated but the best, pound for pound, cuemaker of all time.
 
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cueaddicts said:
Eric, why do you think there's not a huge following on CP cues ?? IMHO they are absolutely some of the finest that have EVER been made. You can't pick one up that wasn't a super player....fancy or plain. That man was an absolute genius when it came to putting a cue together right for solid playability. He's sort of a mystery....
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I think its because there isn't very many cues out there, and even less that people will sell.

I know a CP is one of the cues I'd spend major money on, that list is really really small for me.

Can't imagine having one and letting it go, think I'd go bankrupt before I'd let that happen.
 
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