When your at the bar and your playing with someone who knows how to shoot...

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Chrisivac

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..will you offer your cue to them if they're using a crappy ol' barstick? Not talkin a money game either, straight up bar rule 8 ball.
Usually at first I'm pretty picky about my cue but put a couple in me and ill let any pool shooter try my cue (unless you look like a slob). I kinda look at it like wanting to even the odds. I'd rather win based on skill, not because of the crappy bar cue.
What's yall's take on this??
 
Chrisivac said:
..will you offer your cue to them if they're using a crappy ol' barstick? Not talkin a money game either, straight up bar rule 8 ball.
Usually at first I'm pretty picky about my cue but put a couple in me and ill let any pool shooter try my cue (unless you look like a slob). I kinda look at it like wanting to even the odds. I'd rather win based on skill, not because of the crappy bar cue.
What's yall's take on this??
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well i think its not the cue that makes the shooter. I for 1 can play with a bar cue just as good as my real cue. I always carry a tip pik in my pocket so i can scuff the tip. so i would so no to people using my cues.
 
Chrisivac said:
..will you offer your cue to them if they're using a crappy ol' barstick? Not talkin a money game either, straight up bar rule 8 ball.
Usually at first I'm pretty picky about my cue but put a couple in me and ill let any pool shooter try my cue (unless you look like a slob). I kinda look at it like wanting to even the odds. I'd rather win based on skill, not because of the crappy bar cue.
What's yall's take on this??
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If they are a good player, feel genuine (not someone who is a jerk or might whack your cue if they get drunk and miss a shot), then yes, I have offered to let them use my cue on occasion.

Argonath
 
no no no. I have let somebody use it at my home table, and sure enough, they had it leaning up against a lamp ontop of a mop bucket. I took it away and said something. He is still pissed. At the bar I take my stick to the bathroom. (no shit) I've had both sticks over 20 years. I would rather have my truck stolen than loose my cue. I don't play without my own stick. more than a game or two.:eek:
 
no

I used to let other people use my stick. I had gotten pretty serious about pool while my brother was in the army. He came home on leave and naturally I was letting him use my stick. Getting ready to rack he reached out and tapped a ball to nudge it to the rack area. He didn't hit it hard, just somehow wrong. Broke two inches off the end of the shaft and he couldn't understand why I was upset!

I don't loan anyone my cue if they are used to using a house cue. It isn't that important but if there is a question of the cue being an edge I'd rather use a house cue myself than loan mine.

Hu
 
only if its a person I know really well that I play on a regular basis and they don't have their cues at that given time. That happens when the cue repair guy has if to change the tip, I usually get it back within 2 days unless he is at a tournament with his stuff.
 
if its a good friend I don't have a problem at all, as most of mine would/have done the same for me. Now someone I don't really know, even if they can play, will never touch my cue. You don't knw there temperment/intentions. I have loaned my break cue out though.
 
No, hell no!!!

I let a friend use one of my cues at a tournament once...never again. Not only did I get the cue back with multiple dingers in the shaft (which I had to remove and then recondition), but I couldn't concentrate on my game because I was too worried about how he was treating my cue. Quite simply...not worth it.

Lisa
 
billiardspro said:
well i think its not the cue that makes the shooter. I for 1 can play with a bar cue just as good as my real cue. I always carry a tip pik in my pocket so i can scuff the tip. so i would so no to people using my cues.
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Yea I totally disagree with what you say... Try using a perfectly conditioned cue to some bar stick that sticks and makes noise as it drags along your skin. Yea I'm positive a good shooter with a top notch cue pitted against the same player w a bar cue will win more regularly and would have the advantage.
 
Chrisivac said:
Yea I totally disagree with what you say... Try using a perfectly conditioned cue to some bar stick that sticks and makes noise as it drags along your skin. Yea I'm positive a good shooter with a top notch cue pitted against the same player w a bar cue will win more regularly and would have the advantage.
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Actually...I disagree with your disagreeing. I have buddies that own their own cues, but will actually take a beaver-chewed barstick off the wall and hand you your a$$ with it. It's the Indian, not the Arrow.

Lisa
 
No one ever touches my cue. Ever, for any reason. I'm so particular I won't even take it to someone else for work on it, I do it myself. Touch my cue and it might be the last thing you remember when you wake up.
 
One several occasions I have let someone I knew borrow my backup cue. I even let someone borrow my main player once, but I fretted over the decision the whole time it was being used. I no longer will loan one of my cues. I have discovered dings in a couple of them that I cannot see myself as doing. Not just in the shafts either, but some dings/small chips in the butt section.

Maniac
 
NO! I have learned my lesson the hard way. There are too many good players that are just that. They are good players and don't respect a cue. There are very few players that play in a bar using a expensive cue and most don't have a clue on how much one cost. I let one use my cue and he put it in the space between the chair seat and the back and then sat in the chair. Another missed a shot turned around and banged the cue against the top of a chair.

I have had a few better or good players over to play at my house. Showed them a cue that cost me $800 and they all made the same remark "are you crazy". No cue is worth that much. After that I didn't show them the others that I have.
 
I would not be taking my stick to a bar unless it was for a tourney...but i do love seeing someone bring one to a bar...a few of us end up killing eachother to get at him
 
There are some things you just don't lend to others: a fountain pen, that watch your father gave you just before he died, your wife or girlfriend, and your playing cue. I might lend out one of my cues if I have 2 or more with me, but I never lend out the cue that is my player at the time.
 
No one play with my Cue but me. So I don't have to worry about them dinging it on a GC Rail, or Vally Corner.

Like when I was a kid I never let my bicycle after one bad expierence. Kid put it back in the shed after he used it. I went to use it the next day and it had two flat tires. He said it was my problem when I ask him for the money to fix the tires.
 
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