Your first cue that you regret selling...

I regret selling almost every cue I've ever owned. There were a couple I could care less about but some of the sales make me think I should have my head examined.

The first one that I truly regret was a Pete Omen 6 pointer. Purpleheart into birdseye. Rings at all locations and burgundy lizard wrap. This cue hit better than almost any other I've ever played with. And almost everyone who played with it agreed. I was trying to cgather some cash to buy a new cue so I sold it to a friend for $600!!! And he never uses it so, i offered to buy it back and he wants $800! Needless to say, we're not friends anymore.

Some of the others I regret selling: fancy Paul Fanelli, Tim Scruggs, Judd, another Omen... I could keep going all day!
 
I had a Tim Scruggs sneaky pete that was beat up from all of the bar table play. I was having a cue made and used that sale to finance my custom cue being made. Bought it for $200 new. Sold it on Ebay for $250 beat to crap to someone in Missouri. Wish I had not sold that cue.
 
Sold? maybe, but don't think so.
My memory is SO bad. At either Ft Huachuca or Ft Gordon a long time ago when I was in the Army I played a guy at the USO and he gave me a really nice Viking. It was the first cue I had ever owned. I loved that pool stick. I don't remember what happened to it.
 
Here's my badbeat stories:

**Gus Szamboti I bought in 86(?) off Ray Martin for $700. Sold it about a year later for $850 (well actually Voodoo sold it for me).

**Two Southwest cues. I sold one about 8 years ago (Voodoo again) for 1K- just got it back from Laurie, new rings on one shaft, cleaned up and new joint protectors. Best hitting cue I have ever owned. The other I ordered new and wasn't playing at the time so I shipped it to guess who for cost. Check out the receipt and what it sold for!
 

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JG-in-KY said:
Here's my badbeat stories:

**Gus Szamboti I bought in 86(?) off Ray Martin for $700. Sold it about a year later for $850 (well actually Voodoo sold it for me).

**Two Southwest cues. I sold one about 8 years ago (Voodoo again) for 1K- just got it back from Laurie, new rings on one shaft, cleaned up and new joint protectors. Best hitting cue I have ever owned. The other I ordered new and wasn't playing at the time so I shipped it to guess who for cost. Check out the receipt and what it sold for!
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*Falls over from viewing that reciept*
 
I have a few.

Got rid of a Franklin ebony on ebony Southwest. Traded it, a Bender, and an Omega for a very early Mottey ivory pointed cue. Don't have any of them any more.

Also sold an early '80s Schick level 2. Honey stained BEM. No points and only check rings at joint with basic cortland wrap. Paid $90 and it came with 2 melamine ferruled shafts and a custom It's George case with the name Schick embossed into it.

Sold my Rambow to Chris Tate late last year. But at least I can call him and get pictures to cry over.
 
Bludworth

My 1st cue was a base Mcdermott $180, traded it for a Meucci that had the Pro_Billiards tour stamp on the butt. Traded that cue +100$ for a coco bludworth with Birdseye arrow shaped points in the forearm. Traded that Bludworth for a brand new 1500$ Schon. One day at Pro-Billiards in Orlando, I traded Jimmy for a Bad A$$ Bludworth, one which I have never seen again, it had over 172 Ivory inlays in it, it had a Birdseye forearm with cocoa Arrow inlays, with arrow inlays in them, with ivory arrows in them. It was crazy, and played awesome. I had a dry spell and needed money, I traded it to a poolhall owner who gave me a joss sneaky pete + mcdermott J/B + 200$ cash and a 400$ bar tab.
One day he came back from the Billiards show with a piece of paper in his hand and gave me a giant hug and kiss (non - gay way) and said "THANKS!!!" showed me the paper and it was a pic of my cue from Bludworth who said he would not sell that cue for less than $4000.00, and that was in 1998.
Guess it pays to know what you have. :( :( :(
 
1st cue I regret getting rid of was the 1st Schon I ever had.. Some of you may have read the story where I played my brother and forest gumped my way into alot of $$$.. He gave me the cue as payment. That cue was one of the best hitting cues I've ever played with. Long story short a local cue maker convinced me that it was slightly warped and thus worthless (still learning) so I traded him that Schon and had him make me a purple heart sneaky pete. I loved my sneaky and played with it for alot of years, but ultimately I always missed my shon.

You know in thinking about this, I miss the Schon, I miss the sneaky, I don't miss a custom cue I had made.. (ended up weighing like 25 ounces), but I miss the Budweiser sneaky that I bought from the same guy, I miss 2 other cues that he built me as well.

I think I'm going to stop selling my cues.. Only don't regret getting rid of one of them.

DJ
 
I had a John Guffy once.
It hit fine and looked ok.
He stopped making sticks.
It's a semi-collectable cue now. Not super high end but was an ok to keep.
 
Huebler

I sold the first cue I ever bought (Huebler) to a friend and he won't sell it back I have asked well over 100 times. Still can't find an equal.
 
I still have my first cue... an old Viking that I bought new in 1965... from a then local Glen Ellyn, IL favorite pool hall called Swank.

It's pretty basic. The forearm and butt are walnut... and the wrap is a reddish-colored wool. It's 57" and has the window design in the lower butt that was common in those days.

I believe that I paid about $65 for it.
 
zeeder said:
I'm sure I will eventually regret selling the first cue I ever had custom built. It was an ebony and burl Skip Weston!
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Ooooo, that was a nice one . . . . <<== rubbing salt into the wound - heheh :p
 
I traded away a fancy Paul Fanelli cue that was featured in the Inside Pool article about him. I loved that cue. It was gorgeous. I still don't know why I traded it!!!

Another sale that I regret was my burl Mottey. I sold it to a friend and the second the transaction was done I regretted it. Luckily, he's a good friend and when he saw how heartbroken I was, he sold it back to me for the same price! (Thanks Ronnie!)
 
nipponbilliards said:
Do you have some cues you regret selling?

What is the first one?

To me, it was my first Pechauer with a metal joint and two regular shafts, with a Jim Knott case.

Obviously, I did not learn from my mistake because I have sold a lot more cues that I regret since then...:)

Richard
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I should never have sold that Ivory Jointed 60's Tad I had when I was about 18. The usual story, went broke sold/traded it with a custom cuemaker for a sneaky pete & some cash.

In fact, I saw Tad in Houston at the BCA Trade show. I introduced myself and told him of the cue I regret selling the most (there is another one :( ) and that one day I hope to have another of his fine work.
 
CrownCityCorey said:
I should never have sold that Ivory Jointed 60's Tad I had when I was about 18. The usual story, went broke sold/traded it with a custom cuemaker for a sneaky pete & some cash.

In fact, I saw Tad in Houston at the BCA Trade show. I introduced myself and told him of the cue I regret selling the most (there is another one :( ) and that one day I hope to have another of his fine work.
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Well, at least not a lot of 18 years old had the chance to own an ivory jointed 60's Tad. (So, it had no logo, or number, is that right?) I know I didn't and I am quite jealous that you did.:)

I had a chance to buy this really sweet hitting Tad, with nice ring work and inlays, two shafts, in mint condition for only $1000, from a dealer friend of mine in Asia. I was thinking about it because I had a bit too many cues back then, when I got back to him two days later with the cash, the cue was of course...sold. :( :(

Richard
 
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pharaoh68 said:
I traded away a fancy Paul Fanelli cue that was featured in the Inside Pool article about him. I loved that cue. It was gorgeous. I still don't know why I traded it!!!

Another sale that I regret was my burl Mottey. I sold it to a friend and the second the transaction was done I regretted it. Luckily, he's a good friend and when he saw how heartbroken I was, he sold it back to me for the same price! (Thanks Ronnie!)
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Is that the burl Mottey you showed me in VF? That was an elegant looking cue, not too busy, yet classy and elegant.

I am glad you got it back.:) :)

Richard
 
I had a Predator sneaky pete about 6 years ago and a friend wanted to play with it just to see what it played like. He said I could use his Helmstetter for the week while he had mine.
He comes back a week later and says, "I have got to have that cue"...I had paid $190 for it new from a friend...His Helmstetter was a $390.00 cue at the time. So I figure if he trades me even, I can turn around and sell the Helmstetter for more, buy another Predator and keep the profit.
So we trade. I go out and win 9 tournaments in the next 2 months with the Helmstetter.The best pool I have ever played....
So I am sitting in the pool room, taking a break and having a coke, and another friend comes in and says,"I need a cue for myself and I need one now"...."How about selling me that Helmstetter?"....
I forgot to mention the ferrule had cracked and I was going to have it replaced. My friend says, " I don't care about the cracked ferrule. I will give you $300 cash right now, as is" And he lays all $20 bills in front of me and I take it.
I have never found a cue that I have liked or played as good with since. And I saw him again serval times and he said he had to give up pool and I offered to buy back the cue and give him an extra $50 more than what he gave me but he won't do it. Even though he don't play anymore...Last time I saw him I offered $100 more, but he still refused. DUMB ME.......
 
Big Regret-

When I first started playing pool in college I had a black '60s brunswick cue, 21oz, it had that angled cut in the handle, played great, but I did not have much experience at the time. This was 1977. I had a friend who wanted to buy it so I sold it to him when I left school.

Wonder where it is now?
 
JG-in-KY said:
Here's my badbeat stories:

**Gus Szamboti I bought in 86(?) off Ray Martin for $700. Sold it about a year later for $850 (well actually Voodoo sold it for me).

**Two Southwest cues. I sold one about 8 years ago (Voodoo again) for 1K- just got it back from Laurie, new rings on one shaft, cleaned up and new joint protectors. Best hitting cue I have ever owned. The other I ordered new and wasn't playing at the time so I shipped it to guess who for cost. Check out the receipt and what it sold for!
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:p Its always my fault!! I have moved several hundred cues in my life, those were some classics. How bout that Szamboti I bought from Big Teddy for $500 and he let me pay it off? The one I regret selling, hmmmmm. Gotta be the first <of 5-6> Searing that was made for me...I think it was his tenth cue?
 
Nothing serious, just a Balabushka.
Sold it in Dayton in 1974 for $200. I needed $$$.
And you know, it hit real good too. Everyone that hit with it liked it. Duh!
 
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