Your first ( good ) cue
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My old Viking ( I was 16 ) came in a cheap "fold-out" case with cheesy dark blue lining. I had no idea and didn't really care. Then I bought a NICE snakeskin print Fellini in Tampa that got stolen 2 cues later, out of my first car. I'm not sure but it was either my 1st Meucci or my first Joss ( east ). They broke my vent window on driver's side. I miss that case almost as much as the cue. The other cue, someone stole while I was in action, right off the table while I was in the bathroom. And of course, it's like 3am, everyone is pilled up and stoned, etc and no one saw a thing. At least he didn't steal my case which was off to the side.
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My first good cue....Trophy snooker cue by Brunswick of Canada
They came standard 60 inches...11 mm
Chopped it to 57 inches...narrowed it to 10.5
Went on a win streak....lasted almost three years.
Left it in a pool hall ONCE after five years...had action the next day.....
...pool hall got broken into....they took everything but the tables.
...within a year, I took a seven year leave of absence from the game.....
...nice for you “It’s the Indian’ guys....for me, it’s the arrow also
They came standard 60 inches...11 mm
Chopped it to 57 inches...narrowed it to 10.5
Went on a win streak....lasted almost three years.
Left it in a pool hall ONCE after five years...had action the next day.....
...pool hall got broken into....they took everything but the tables.
...within a year, I took a seven year leave of absence from the game.....
...nice for you “It’s the Indian’ guys....for me, it’s the arrow also
Michael Andros,
Originally Posted by TheBasics View Post
Howdy All;
Just off a Med. Cruise in Feb. of 1979 with the Navy and found a Meucci MO-3
4th from left in poster.
https://www.budgetcues.com/archive/meucci-mo-series.htm
Still have it. Bring it out of storage once or twice a year ...
I see alot of other same vintage cues from that poster for sale,
only have seen one of these.
hank
Thanks. I paid about $120.00 for it Brand new, and about 2 months later I pulled an
"Earl" and slammed the but into the floor (concrete), ended up popping about 1/4 of
the butt cap off and cracked the rings on both sides of the joint. I worked in the
airframes shop so next day I snuck a small bottle of fiberglass resin and some
hardener home. Cleaned all the edges up and glued it back together. Wrapped it with
waxed paper then wound some dental floss around it. A week later after a wee bit of
clean-up good as (almost), new. Haven't had a problem with any of the repairs still
shoots nicely.
hank
Originally Posted by TheBasics View Post
Howdy All;
Just off a Med. Cruise in Feb. of 1979 with the Navy and found a Meucci MO-3
4th from left in poster.
https://www.budgetcues.com/archive/meucci-mo-series.htm
Still have it. Bring it out of storage once or twice a year ...
I see alot of other same vintage cues from that poster for sale,
only have seen one of these.
hank
Thanks. I paid about $120.00 for it Brand new, and about 2 months later I pulled an
"Earl" and slammed the but into the floor (concrete), ended up popping about 1/4 of
the butt cap off and cracked the rings on both sides of the joint. I worked in the
airframes shop so next day I snuck a small bottle of fiberglass resin and some
hardener home. Cleaned all the edges up and glued it back together. Wrapped it with
waxed paper then wound some dental floss around it. A week later after a wee bit of
clean-up good as (almost), new. Haven't had a problem with any of the repairs still
shoots nicely.
hank
Nice cue, PT... but I've been dying to ask you this and now I'm drunk enough to get up the nerve.
What **IS** "snooker"??? Is that a game you'll play up there in maple-leaf land?
Just curious...
And, you any good at it?
<---- inquiring mind.
as I posted on fb, when I asked this question the other day, it was a st-3 meucci
I just sold one of my custom Meuccis. Still have 2 left. I like Meuccis. I actually played with one for almost 40 years.
Bet you wish you still had THAT cue, huh? :yeah:
Gotta say.... if I saw someone with that come into a room, and ask for action...
all I would be thinking is 'danger danger will robinson' ….. just looks like 'ready
for business'! :wink:
td
I ran the colors once....:happydance::happydance:
.....and then I realized.....i was doing the laundry.....:angry:
Is there a pot that needs to be stirred somewhere?? :wink:
For all those dedicated snooker fans, I am hearing about a dedicated snooker
hall opening up here in the valley of the sun - Phx. Az.
As for first cues... I've already written about mine.. A JW. No, I wasn't spoiled, just 'lucky'... and it is always the cue that all others get compared to... so far still first
choice.
td
A sneaky Pete of unknown manufacture, was my first cue period.
An AMF Legacy with points, was my 1st good cue.
A Viking with Stainless Steel joint, was my 2nd good cue.
A Meucci with points,was my 3rd good cue.
All of these cues were owned 20+ years ago.
Of these cues, I still have the Viking.
Last year I purchased a new Meucci, with 4 points and a Pro Shaft. So, I own an old Viking and a new Meucci.
An AMF Legacy with points, was my 1st good cue.
A Viking with Stainless Steel joint, was my 2nd good cue.
A Meucci with points,was my 3rd good cue.
All of these cues were owned 20+ years ago.
Of these cues, I still have the Viking.
Last year I purchased a new Meucci, with 4 points and a Pro Shaft. So, I own an old Viking and a new Meucci.
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My Viking is long since gone. Still have my 2nd Meucci ( 40+ yrs ). First was stolen.
Just as I suspected. I think that snooker stuff is just bs, frankly. Sounds like a pool player ate some bad hotdogs or something, went to sleep and had bad dreams... and that's where this stuff about "snooker" started, someone posted it somewhere and it went viral.
Gotta love the internet... :lol:
And with GOOD reason...
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Every cue I ever had was a "good" cue, but some cost more than others.
I worked in the pool hall as a kid and I always fixed up a house cue to my liking and never really had the need for a two-piece unless I was playing in another place. I had a couple cheap two-piece cues for that and they both played good,
In 1973, I decided I needed a better one, so I had one made by the A.E. Schmidt, Co. in St. Louis. It was made out of a Brunswick Titlist and the guy who made it was named Lloyd Bennett. I still have the cue and I had Scott Sherbine of Proficient Billiards restore it a couple years back.
You can see it in this thread. I just played with it a couple weeks back.
https://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=273273&highlight=schmidt+1973+louis
I worked in the pool hall as a kid and I always fixed up a house cue to my liking and never really had the need for a two-piece unless I was playing in another place. I had a couple cheap two-piece cues for that and they both played good,
In 1973, I decided I needed a better one, so I had one made by the A.E. Schmidt, Co. in St. Louis. It was made out of a Brunswick Titlist and the guy who made it was named Lloyd Bennett. I still have the cue and I had Scott Sherbine of Proficient Billiards restore it a couple years back.
You can see it in this thread. I just played with it a couple weeks back.
https://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=273273&highlight=schmidt+1973+louis
What a nice cure... certainly worth hanging onto all this time.
One thing about this section is that we are seeing how much those early pool cues
meant to us,
when Billy mentioned buying his $17,95 Brunswick Hoppe cue with the brass joint
I was reminded when i went to the same store down on Industrial Avenue in Dallas
and bought mine there.
I didn't know Billy at the time ,but I had seen the movie the Hustler and tasted the thrill
of my first few scores,suddenly I saw an opportunity in my min to escape the mundane world
of mediocrity that was all that I had looking forward t to.
Of course the pool world held hopes for high adventure,glamour (at least the hope).and
an opportunity to get through college without the part time jobs that held forth nothing but
slave s wages and long boring drudgery.
I could go on with the hopes and dreams that swelled in my breast as i purchased my
first pool cue,but i prefer to suggest that every time I get a new one today I feel something of that
feeling ,that moment in time that I bought that first cue
not just getting not just getting a piece of wood with leather here and there and a screw in the middle,I was buying a whole new way of life .
meant to us,
when Billy mentioned buying his $17,95 Brunswick Hoppe cue with the brass joint
I was reminded when i went to the same store down on Industrial Avenue in Dallas
and bought mine there.
I didn't know Billy at the time ,but I had seen the movie the Hustler and tasted the thrill
of my first few scores,suddenly I saw an opportunity in my min to escape the mundane world
of mediocrity that was all that I had looking forward t to.
Of course the pool world held hopes for high adventure,glamour (at least the hope).and
an opportunity to get through college without the part time jobs that held forth nothing but
slave s wages and long boring drudgery.
I could go on with the hopes and dreams that swelled in my breast as i purchased my
first pool cue,but i prefer to suggest that every time I get a new one today I feel something of that
feeling ,that moment in time that I bought that first cue
not just getting not just getting a piece of wood with leather here and there and a screw in the middle,I was buying a whole new way of life .