What was the first cue you ever owned?

My first cue was a Schmelke, then went to a cuetech, bought a plain McDermott shortly after that and used cuetech as break cue, then bought a predator and sold the cuetech, mcdermott was the breaker. Then sold both of them and bought a Schon with a Joss sneaky for a break cue. Bought a 314, 0b-1, and now a 314-2 for the Schon, and a X-Breaker. There is my cue history.
 
My first cue was a Lucasi LD-2, I still have it. After that I bought a plethora of cues ( Joss, Schon, Hurricane, Krick, and many others ) until I finally Settled on my Madden " boomstick". My new Madden fullsplice ( straight grain forearm, black walnut butt w/ holly Hoppe ring and brass joint ) is being finished as we speak
 
My first cue was a schmelke, 12 mm shaft, gigantic metal joint, pretty wood (walnut I think) with a notched diamond "inlay" painted on. I still have it. "Oh it's got cachet baby." - George Costanza
 
My first cue was a SuperDuper 5 piece custom adjustable weight, hand carved pool cue with a screw on tip.

The cue was given to me by an older gentleman at a local VFW hall after watching me for several weeks pull a milk crate around with me to stand on whilest play'in the game of pool on their 1 and only 8' bar table that took 1 dime to play on per game.

This pool cue led me to my 1st real pool room. Aftere the tip wore down I climbed on my ultra classic Huffy 5-speed bike and peddled to a place called Buckeye Billiards on Berea road in Cleveland, OH to try and purchase a screw on tip. My jaw dropped when the guy told me that they didn't sell tips like that and they were very rare for custom cues such as the one I had.
 
I think I was 10 or 11 and I saved up my weekly allowance, had my mom drive me to Sears where I promptly bought the top of the line "Sears" brand stick complete with the brass ferrule and screw on tips. I think I spent less than $20.00 then. :D
 
The first cue I ever owned, I bought it in a pawn shop. I had started getting better and my friends all had their own cues so I went out to find one and didnt know anything other than K-mart cues suck so I went into a pawn shop and found one. I paid $40 for it and a case and I still have it(in my closet). It has no name on it whatsoever, but it plays great. Its a steel jointed cue with a nice wrap and the points are kinda cool. I will post pics later and see if anyone can identify it....Im serious, it has no name on it at all but hits as good as a schon, pechauer or joss.

Southpaw
 
I don?t know who the maker was of my 1st cue ($15) but the interesting thing was that the splice was in the shaft, not the butt. It was a sort of butterfly looking splice. I bought my 1st year of college (all down hill from there).
My 1st real cue was a Palmer (Model F, 2nd catalog) that I bought in New Orleans in ?73/?74. Still have that one. I started losing money to higher class of player after that purchase. :)
 
Varney Cues said:
$39 Stratford sneaky. Bought from Playworld on Merrimon Ave in Asheville NC. I believe Dana still owns the joint.:)

Edited to add: The first quality cue I owned was a nice old Meucci original. I finally won my first tourney and blew the entire wad on the Moochie. When I got involved with some quality players they made so much fun of my Moochie that I traded for a Balabushka...got laughed at by cue vendors in Vegas cause in was a Helmsetter GB (damn Color of Money movie :rolleyes: ) and then traded up for a nice Schon. Was happy until Kelly Oyama & some other pros pointed out the rounded (cnc) points and laughed...then traded up to a Bludworth and was very happy. That started a never ending journey into custom cues...Hunter, Dishaw, Cog, SW, Gilbert, Samsara, and many more. LOL...now I play with a beat up old Varney hustler...and never been happier.:D
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Wow a Stratford! I had one of those. And then had donated it to someone else. (always had donated a cue after every session and of course having it serviced).
But for me started with:
Cutec>Eliminator>Cuetec>Stratford>Cuetec>Lucasi>McDermott

Yeah, seems like I've always used a Cuetec, but use them when I have donated the previous cue, and waiting to buy a new one. Now it seems I have too many cuetec's and trying to get rid of em! Cuetec's aren't bad cues, just something i don't prefer in using anymore. :)
 
My first cue

was a 3 piece cue from my big brother for Xmas when I was a sophmore in High School. It had weights between the 2 butt pieces, and could adjust from 18 oz to 21 oz. I didn't know a whole lot about cues at that time, and thought it was pretty cool..... :rolleyes:
 
First cue was a Players i got for 50 dollars with case. Since then ive been shooting with a Joss. Looking to get custom cue or Schon sometime in the future.
 
Took a one piece house cue via the "L" to RAMBOW's shop on WABASH? (CHI) in 58 or 59.

He did a basic conversion with a brass piloted joint and courtland wrap.

IIRC it cost under $15 and I was one happy, wet behind the ear, stroker....
 
My first cue was a Steve Mizerak.. I can't believe no one else had one as their first. Mebbe it was only marketed to the military PX's?

Anyways, it had Steve's name on it, and played pretty darned good, for a beginner's cue. I think Mizerak had too much integrity to put his name on a bad cue.

Russ
 
Montgomery Ward Special

Don't know the maker, but I bought a two-piece cue from Montgomery Ward around 1969, around the time my family bout a 7-foot wood-bed Ward's pool table. Don't know what I paid, but I'm sure I got a discount, since I was working in the warehouse for $1.65 and hour. I have no idea what happened to that cue. I'm sure it's worth at least $1.65 today.
 
My first cue was Brunswick Willie Hoppe I bought for $10 from the local Brunswick Bowling Center and Family Billiards in 1962. It was rather unique as it was new but was a 40's vintage obviously made during the war years as it had a brown phenolic joint sleeve rather than brass. It was purple heart with a black leather wrap and weighed only 17oz. It was laying in the display case with bowling shoes and bags and was covered in dust. When I was leaving for the Marine Corps in the winter of 64, I resold it to one of guys that hung around the local pool hall for $10 to have some money to go on one last special date before I left for boot camp. How stupid was that? I had much better luck with that cue than I had with that date. I played some great pool with that cue. The most recent Titleist conversion I purchased cost me $2600 from a top level cue maker. I would gladly trade it for that first cue!
 
My dad got me into playing pool when I was about 9. He had something made custom (but not terribly expensive). I have no idea who made it. I played with it for about 15 years, then the tip got a bit loose, I broke with it and the ferrule shattered! I was very sad. I still keep it around to remind me where I started out. Every once in a while I take it out and it's amazing how smooth it is, I took much better care of it than I take care of my current shafts...
 
My first...

My first cue was a Meucci 'Hook' cue. That thing played awesome. I bought it off a pool player in Colorado Springs named Steve Miller. He also gambled at bowling if anyone knew him. We would go play at Scott Smiths room. Oddly, I have no idea what happened to it.
 
My first Cue

My first cue cost me $50.00 used. It was a 1970's Palmer. I sure wish I didn't give it to an old girlfriend when I upgraded. Ahhh to be young and foolish again instead of old and senile.

Phin
 
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