What is the reason behind your collection?

Certainly to each their own. I enjoy variety.

I also play guitar and have 4. An acoustic, a bass uke, strat, and Vintage hollow body. From the 60s 80s 90s and modern, but all are designed to have different sounds. I had two strats at one point, but couldn't stand having a repetition.

Same with my cues, they are made in different eras and have totally distinct style and feel.
 
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This is what I have left.Getting older 70+.Since I am older might explain why they are more traditional looking
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My "original" cues are cues that I had made or bought with customized specs that I used for decades and never strayed from.

Over the years, I have had cues made just for the hell of it to test them out and I have kept some and sold others. I also have bought cues second-hand that I have tried and liked and was given a chance to buy at prices that could not be refused.

All of the cues I currently have are great-hitting cues (to me) that are in excellent shape and are a mixture of name-brand production cues or customs made by well-known makers. All of them play good or I wouldn't have kept them.

None of my cues are "fancy" and I am not particularly attracted to cues with a lot of unnatural characteristics or "bling" (i.e., wild colors, gaudy logos, multiple inlays, etc.). I prefer cues that have more of an old-school look and that have nice-looking and playing woods.

I consider all of my cues as "playing" cues. I don't consider cues as "art". The "art" is in how well they play.
 
Dangit, the sickness has struck again. Just picked up a solid purple heart break cue to match my sneaky. I mean, I did need a dedicated breaker... I'm up to 7 total. Jump cue not included. That's a nice number. Hopefully it stays that way.
 
Nothing interesting, 4 points, pearl or ivory, and steel joint. Perhaps not as rational as most posters about, but set in my old ways. And one player on the left with a pink ivory butt sleeve (one of a kind M-1)

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Where did you get that interior for the case?
I have a 2x4 Zero Halliburton that (luckily) has been sitting empty for years and when I've opened it recently I discovered that the foam interior had disintegrated over the years from humidity.
Could be nice to revive it.
 
I don't think I'll ever stop trying cues out. It's an addiction. But I definitely have a core "never sell" collection, then cues i don't mind flipping.

Keep:

Bill Hagan
Koa points on ebony with pink ivory inlay
2x stock shafts
Billiard carom shaft

Purpleheart Sneaky
Stonier shaft
Starkey ferruless

Katz Sneaky
Made by me in Guerras shop
He's shipping it soon..
Carbon break shaft
Maple playing shaft


Adam Jim Rempe JR12 King
Stock shaft
314^2 tapered thin

Adam Jim Rempe JR3 Esquire
Carbon break shaft
Stitch ring player

Adam snooker cue
Wood pin, maple with phenolic brown ferrule

Terry Stonier 4 point
Thick brass joint and pin 3/8×11
2x stock shafts

Terry Stonier Titleist
(Replace pin to 3/8×10, titanium joint, cueball buttcap, black hoppe ring)
Original shaft
314^3 Predator
" Demo only" splice shaft OB? prototype


Mariposa
Ziricote and cocobolo butterfly
2x stock shafts

Predator Air II ICE jump
Only keeping because you can't compete in a tournament without one.


Sell:

Full Purpleheart break cue

Predator roadline SP08
8 pointer fill splice with veneers
Currently my bar cue
BD pie shaft
 

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