What was your first cue?

My first cue was an Adams Steve Mizerak merry widow cue. I bought it in 1982 from my local pool room. I sold off half of my comic book collection to get the funds together to buy that pool cool. At the time that I bought that cue there was a McDermott C-20 model for sale for $400+ dollars. Which then amazed me that a cue would cost that much, and I thought it was an amazing looking cue in comparison to what I was buying. I played my Adams for about a 18 months when I got the chance to buy a better grade cue and bought a Schon cue. I still have my Adams, and my Schon, and have picked up others since then. But I still dream of eventually finding a McDermott C-20 cue to fullfil that desire for that "lost" cue of my dreams. I guess its my "Rosebud".
 
Blue Hog ridr said:
Look at it this way Greg. Its way better than peeing it away at a card table or VLTs.
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That's true. I've tried my hand at both and while poker was usually pretty profitable... It was still a waste of time/money overall. A serious cue addiction is a much better habit. :thumbup:
 
Viking 101ish in the mid 80's, sold to my brother in early 90's who is sending it to me next week because he doesn't have a table and I bugged him for it.

I knew it was going to rot in his basement otherwise.
 
:thumbup: nice thread ;)

my first cue was a cuetec, made a 4 piece cue out of it :grin: afterwards i played with what was available before finding a carolina cue, used some hours and for a nice price.
 
My 1st cue was a big red fiberglass Excalibur I got for $20. Won me a lot of bourbon and cokes in the bars down in Statesboro. Probably one of the main reasons it took me 6 years to get a 4 year degree LOL
 
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Some POS that came with a cheap table that my dad bought from a discount lumber yard. :joyful:




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Around 1967 I bought a blue anodized aluminum cue for about $30. It did have a strange sound when it hit. But it rolled straight,stroked smooth and you could keep it in the trunk of your car without damage. No idea what happen to it. Yeah, as I recall I wrapped it with rod building thread too.

Funny, now you pay over $200 just for a shaft that's hollowed out for only a couple of inches. What's up with that?
 
A plain cocobolo cue from Abe Rich's Star Cue in Miami Beach. I wish I still had it. My first REALLY custom cue was a Tim Scruggs. I wish I still had that too. Nothing like being young, stupid, and short sighted.
 
Jet black SCHMELKE...man I thought it was the DEAL!!!!
Looking back I feel like Uncle Rico talking about throwing a pigskin a quarter mile back in 82 !!!!
 
Dufferin Gold Leaf

It was all black, cost $80, and it was beautiful. This was 1989 or so, $80 was a fortune to me then. I played with it for years and years. Then I went into a horrible slump. One night I got beat out of $60 (a fortune) playing one pocket with a guy who I should have beaten blind-folded. I paid up, took the cue outside, leaned it against my car, and kicked it into pieces. Didn't play again for 10 years. When I picked pool up again I would have given anything to have that cue back, so stupid to destroy it. Since then my favorite was a Meucci my wife bought me for Christmas one year, man that whippy thing was awesome.
 
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When I was a sophmore in High School, my big brother got me a cue for Xmas. Don't remember the brand name, but it was a 3 piece cue that had adjustable weights between the 2nd and 3rd pieces of it so you could make either an
18/19/20 oz cue.
 
My first Pool Cue

schmizz said:
My very first cue was a Kmart 'Willie Mosconi' special. I probably paid $20 for in 1985 (case included). I was 13 and thought I was the sh*t! I soon found out I was playing with a piece of sh*t and soon went back to playing with house cues until I could afford a real stick 4 or 5 years later which was a Joss. :cool:
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I began playing snooker at 12yrs. back in 1971, at 13 yrs. I ordered my first pool cue, it was an eighteen oz. plain jane Palmer, 13 mm shaft with Irish Linen wrap,( $.77.00 ) man I thought I could beat anyone with that cue, it did improve my pool game tremendously, being able to shoot with a nice cue every game sure helped my play and confidence at making balls.

I had that cue until I was 18 yrs. ,..... In Dallas,Tx. 1977 one night late/ morning my brother Calvin put it in the fire while I was sleeping in the truck and lost it along with my Joss West that I had just bought not long ago before that, I was pissed for awhile, but got over it!

After all, I won a bran new Cheyenne Chevy truck after that, so I was alright with it!


David Harcrow
 
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catpool9 said:
I tell you what, those Adams cue's from the 70's were some damn good hitting cue's!...usually $25.00 to $30.00 bucks back then!


David Harcrow
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I wasnt even born then! lol my adams was around 400. inflation or what, haha.
 
I was hanging around the classic Brunswick bowling alley / pool hall. 15 years old.. I found I had a talent for pool. There were the tough guys that repaired the lanes, a few druggies and one old Italian. He had what I thought was a great stick. He was a traveling player so he thought it drew attention to him. Sold it to /or lost it to one of the druggies. I paid $175
in 1972. Not only do I play with it daily but I now have 9. It's the third from the right. Later cues by Rich are not what they produced in 1965. Shhh Let's keep it quiet
 

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I just used an inflation calculator and if you were to buy that cue today, it would cost you $901.68
 
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