What was your first cue?

schmizz

schmizz

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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:
 
Seventies JOSS, got it in 1985. Still my primary shooter.

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I got my first cue in 1963. I am pretty sure it was a Willie Hoppe model.
It was long time ago but I think it had a brass pin and joint and Titlist style points.
 
Meucci MO-4, green veneers, 2 shafts. I still have it and drag it out occaisionally. The 11mm shaft for it is a noodle, but damn I can spin the sh#t out of the white ball with it.
 
Sneaky pete made by local cue maker in Norcross, GA from house cues. Had a horrible roll and costs 35.00. That lasted for a couple of weeks until I could by a Meucci sneaky pete (purple heart wood) in 1992. Nice and rear weighted (16.25" from rear) with a great hit. I still have it and occasionally play with it to this day.
 
The 'Alamo' from Richard Black while station at RAF Lakenheath, UK. Total cost $1,080. Came with a 1x2 black case. Ran 68 balls with it the first weekend I got it. Great cue from a great cue maker.
 
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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My first cue was a plain jane Viking cue. I still have it. I take it on on special occasions to hit a few balls with it. It has a 10 mm snooker shaft and the fatter butt as older cues often have.
 
my first playing cue had been, Brunswick TRUBalance one piece house cue, and it was so perfect.
 

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First Cue

From Sears , can u guess what kind of junk it was in 1967 woowee
it was bad . :(
 
In 1976 my neighbor gave my an old Adam cue. Her boyfriend had given it to her and her husband was comming home from a 6 month cruise.

Larry
 
First Cue(s)

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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Some time around 1965 I got myself my first cue from the Sears sporting goods department for something like $5.00 or so. I did customize it by wrapping the handle with thread used for fishing rods. Kool, huh...lol.

Eventually I progressed to a Brunswick Willie Hoppe. I had that a year or so. I picked up my first Tad for $75 in the early '70s and that's all I've played with ever since. Not that Tad though, I sold it back to the owner for $75 so I could order a new one from Tad.

Gerry Y
 
I bought my first cue in 92, it is a Mali plain Jain and I still break it out every now and then. It is green to match all the money I thought I would be raking in... THOUGHT, is the key word.
 
Some piece of shit cue was my first, don't know where my dad got it, but my first real cue was a highly figured BEM It's George plain jane. Until it got stolen.
 
I had several brightly colored department store cues with screw on tips before I was 15, and I have no clue what happened to them. Probably left them in bowling alleys and bars my dad took me to. Around 17 I had a friend at sears who put 2 of the graphite $100 cues on clearance for $1 apiece... I thought it must be amazing to cost $100. I might not have played any at all with it, as I broke it in the rear window of a truck.

Finally, I wanted a decent cue and had enough miles on me to know I should research names and get something good. The website I landed on was something like eHow.com and I ended up looking for a Meucci in pawn shops. Lo and behold, I found a Meucci Originals with a mismatched shaft, badly in need of a rewrap and refinish. It was the right name and had about a 11.5-12mm tip on it, which I thought I preferred at the time. I over-paid for it, and played with it for a couple of years. After I went to Vegas with my league team, I sent it for refinishing at the Meucci factory. It is now just a cue rack decoration, it makes me sick to think of my experience with Meucci repair and what they pass off as quality work.
 
WOW...

My first cue was a $15 stick from K-Mart. I have absolutely no idea who the maker was. What I do remember was that it weighed 16 ounces with a cheap 5/16x18 thread and that the bumper screwed in.

Surpisingly, the tip was a glue-on, not a screw-in. Go figure...
 
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