Your Cue Stick History?

Let me see, not counting break cues....

McDermott (since returned to the lender)
McDermott (used)
M.Webb
Dufferin
Dufferin
M.Webb
Scruggs (used)
... here's where order gets fuzzy ...
Blackheart (only cue I've ever bought then sold, because my nephew needed one)
Tucker
Madison Bob
Frey
Sherbine (used)
Lucasi (won in raffle)
Samsara
Joss (won in raffle and sold reluctantly)
Gilbert
Diveney
Cameron
... whatever I forgot ....
M. Webb on order.
What's next????
 
I have owned all the wanted stuff...Searing's, Szam's, Bushka's, Rambo's and Tad's. Wish I had the $$$ I spent over the last 28 yrs of cue buying now. Never owned a Peterson or a Gina but owned enough cues to fill a couple of gun safes. :eek:
 
Went to college in 1980 at Miami and fell in love with pool. Had no money and bought a POS no name cue that fall. Received a Mali cue for Christmas that year. Knew I wanted something better and bought a Star Cue in Miami Beach. Went back the following year and upgraded to a cocobolo Star Cue.

In 1987, I went to Tim Scruggs and had him design a cue for me which I had for 10 years until I bought an ivory laden Mike Lambros. I sold the Scruggs to my best friend and he still has it to this day. Our boy Kevin Varney has done some work on it (tips, clean shafts etc...). I then had Mike make me a sneaky Pete and a 5 pointed players cue.

in 2004, I had Mike Sigel make me a cue. It was a great experince working with Mike. From there I bought another Sigel, a Blue Grass, a Josey, a Troy Downey, and most recently an Ariel Carmeli from this site.
 
I dont think I could remember even close to half the cues that I have run through. The few that I wish I still had include an incredible Searing with snakewood and a few high end Southwests with scrimshaw.

I no longer collect cues and barring something unusual, I plan to die with my current stick (a plain jane G. Szamboti).
 
  1. McDermott
  2. Padget Custom SP
  3. Schon
  4. Predator P2 & BK2 & Fury Jump/Brk

Regards,
Abe
 
1. A champs cue with Steve Mizerak's sig on it.
2. Cuetec
3. Muecci
4. Sterling
5. Schon Ltd
6. Rick Howard (current player, and will be for a long time)
 
My first cue was a Players. I was 19 years old and happy with my new cue. Ex-husband threw it away after we got married, though.

Since then, I've had a Meucci, Joss, and now my Jacoby.

Also have had different break cues, including a Cuetec and Rick Howard. Current break cue is a Predator BK2.

Couple different jump cues: Lucasi and Jacoby.

My memory does not serve me well so I'm missing a couple in there.
 
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House cue
Pechauer
Schon
Chudy
Capone
Black Boar
Prewitt
Bluegrass
Zylr
Bluegrass
-R- Davis Conversion
 
Random $30 sneaky pete
Meucci
Lucasi
Predator
J. Odom
Gilbert
Schon
Frey - Soon!
 
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uwate said:
I dont think I could remember even close to half the cues that I have run through. The few that I wish I still had include an incredible Searing with snakewood and a few high end Southwests with scrimshaw.

I no longer collect cues and barring something unusual, I plan to die with my current stick (a plain jane G. Szamboti).
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Would like to see pictures of your plain jane Szamboti if you care to post them here.
 
Viking
Adam
Joss
Schon
Mike Neal
Joel Kohn
Jacoby
Jacoby
Jacoby
Jacoby
Pechauer
Mike Capone
Predator
Mike Gulassay
McDermott
Huebler
Pete Omen
Southeast
Jacoby

That's just playing cues...over a 3 year period. I'm currently looking for something new. lol.
 
Although I only married 8 (RAMBOW, LAUBE, PALMER, JW, G. SZAM, MEUCCI, SOUTHWEST, BRICK) bringing up my "history" would be like WILT trying to recall all his hos.
 
My first cue was a Dufferin followed by:
Wilson
Meucci
Brunswick
Meucci Giant killer
Meucci 95-15
Joss sneaky
Brunswick made by Joss (the cue was in the history of billiards virtual pool first edition)(one of the best cues Ive ever owned and Joss denies ever making it :(
several Lucasi cues
Joss sneaky newer one
Jose plain jane with wrap, and 314
Schon STL-8

these are cues I owned or do..no perticular order
Mezz x 2
Schuler
Cuetec
Fury NR & RP series
Pechauer
Dave Albrecht Custom
Viking
Blaze
KC Custom (SW style)
Hubler
Predator P2
Minnasota fats
Palmer
Players
Meucci Sneaky(the second best meucci Ive owned)
damn, I know there are more, I just cant remember


high end customs, I have a couple, but I havent hit with them, so Im not going to list them..

Ive tried proboly ever aftermarket shaft, and alot of cues I cant remember, some Id buy try them out for a couple weeks and sell them, I did this for 10 years or more, and there were hundreds of cues.. these cues listed made an impression or were recent...


SPINDOKTOR
 
Nice list!

ribdoner said:
Although I only married 8 (RAMBOW, LAUBE, PALMER, JW, G. SZAM, MEUCCI, SOUTHWEST, BRICK) bringing up my "history" would be like WILT trying to recall all his hos.
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Nice list of cues. I hope you did them proud. :D I have never heard of a LAUBE. Any info would be appreciated.
 
jgpool said:
Nice list of cues. I hope you did them proud. :D I have never heard of a LAUBE. Any info would be appreciated.
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We were fine when I was interested in pool and not drunk or high.

John A. played with a LAUBE in the early-mid sixties. I liked it so I got one.

IIRC, his cues featured a slightly flaired buttcap, some were very fancy and have become valuable with collectors. Don't know when he stopped producing or how many he made.

I think he was in the CHI area.
 
Cues that I remember owning

I've owned at least one cue from all of these cue makers and a lot of them I've owned numerous different cues:

Paul Mottey - I've owned a number of Paul's cues, some that I bought used, and I ordered a fancy Szamboti style cue that he built for me which I regrettably sold because I thought it was just too fancy to play with. My current playing cue is a Mottey very similar to the fancy cue Paul built for me, but it isn't quite as flashy.
James White - I've owned a number of James's cues and I regret selling one of them in particular. It had the nicest birdseye forearm i've ever seen and the cue was loaded with ivory inlays.
South West - I've owned 5 South West cues, all of them were 6 point cues with triple veneers and the trim rings (AB rings as Laurie calls them) through out the cues. I sold them all for less than $2K and they would have brought $2.5K easily if I still had them. I like playing with predator shafts and it's a pain to get a predator shaft to match a South West cue.
Josswest - at least 4 and I never owned one that I liked playing with.
Joss - at least 2
Tim Scruggs - I've had at least 5 of Tim's cues and I regret selling them all. Tim is one of the nicest guys to deal with and his cues are great players.
Bender - 1 fancy Bender. I didn't care for the cue I had.
Runde - 5 or more nice Runde cues. I think Bob Runde is a very under rated cue maker and he builds a quality cue.
Nova - at least 3
Skip Weston - 2
Nitti - 1
Dishaw - 2
Josey - I've owned 3 of Keith's cues and he's one of the nicest guys in the pool world. I regret selling one of them a lot. I bought it used from an AZ poster who lives in Canada.
Capone - 2
Schon - I can't remember how many I've owned and I currently own a wrapless Stl-21 that I like playing with.


James
 
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Could have been??

ribdoner said:
We were fine when I was interested in pool and not drunk or high.

John A. played with a LAUBE in the early-mid sixties. I liked it so I got one.

IIRC, his cues featured a slightly flaired buttcap, some were very fancy and have become valuable with collectors. Don't know when he stopped producing or how many he made.

I think he was in the CHI area.
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That could have been the first one I bought. I bought a cue from him in the early sixties. It got stolen 3 days later. I wonder if it was a Laube? Was he selling them? Hmmmm, maybe I just solved an old question.
 
jgpool said:
That could have been the first one I bought. I bought a cue from him in the early sixties. It got stolen 3 days later. I wonder if it was a Laube? Was he selling them? Hmmmm, maybe I just solved an old question.
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He wasn't a cue pimp but he would let suckers put up items of value when matching up if they were short....could be

IIRC "DICK the QUEER" had a thing for cylindrical objects with flared ends:eek:
 
Cue history

1 - Player sneaky pete
2 - Player sneaky pete
3 - Action (won it)
4 - Meucci
5 - Lucasi
6 - Joss sneaky pete (won it)
7 - Predator (won it)
8 - Predator
9 - Jacoby
10 - KC
11 - Phillipino cue
12 - Meucci sneaky pete
13 - Jerry Olivier (nice 5 point lots of ivory) - for sale
14 - McDermott
15 - Andy Gilbert
16 - Rick Howard

Rick Howard is by far best cue I've ever owned.
 
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