stephen hendry's cue

[astle_the_king]

[Steve180]

i always thought he played with a powerglide Connoisseur original with the red name plate . i bought one in 1973 cost me £32 which was a lot of money then,like an idiot i sold mine for £100 about 12 years ago ,regretted it right away managed to buy newer version 6/7 years ago cost me £120 heres a picture of my newer Connoisseur

Is it the emporers new cue?

[ashbash]

Same design just different woods . Thats a cracker Ashbash when you having her mucka .

not sure mate? just placed order so i'm hoping some time this year lol

[faustus]

How did his cue break, by the way?

[gem]

I think it was broken in the cargo hold on a flight.

[ADR147]

When his powerglide was broken John Parris made him three cues and he chose one of them and used it for the next few seasons before he switched to the Acuerate cue. Now he is using a new Parris cue again.

Oldgit

i saw it the other, day pretty sure its still that acuecrap.

[warren132]

I remember when i was 13 or 14 Stephen Hendry was invited to play our best player in our club at the time.A guy called Barry Gilmour. After they had played there match we all had a chance to ask Stephen some questions so me being me asked how much his cue was..He told me his dad payed £40 for it and it was a red badge connoisseur and after having it for a couple of years Stephen carved his first name on the badge with a pen knife. Hope this clears a few things up.

[limecc]

I think it was broken in the cargo hold on a flight.

I've never been able to understand this.

His cue gets nicked so he offers a £10K reward and he gets the cue back and wins another world championship. A cue so obviously precious was not transported in a bomb-proof case? Even a regular aluminium extrusion affair ought to survive the rough and tumble of a cargo hold. Can anyone shed any light on the accident? lol, conspiracy theorists anyone? :-)

[jaffa.johnson]

I've never been able to understand this.

His cue gets nicked so he offers a £10K reward and he gets the cue back and wins another world championship. A cue so obviously precious was not transported in a bomb-proof case? Even a regular aluminium extrusion affair ought to survive the rough and tumble of a cargo hold. Can anyone shed any light on the accident? lol, conspiracy theorists anyone? :-)

Somebody correct me if I am wrong but I think the cue was in a leather case and the case and cue snapped?

[Terry Davidson]

jaffa:

You have it correct. For the life of me I have never understood why in the world he puts a one-piece cue in a soft leather case for a flight to Dubai I think it was. Even in those days sturdy cases were available in either aluminium or wood or even a rigid steel or plastic tube case would have saved the cue. (Although I did ship a cue in rigid plastic once to a buyer in London and UPS managed to break the tube and the last 6" of the cue off).

My cue has never won a world championship but I still fly with a very durable aluminium case which in fact was lost at Gatwick for a week and sat underneath a conveyor belt until it was found and returned to me with no damage to the 2 cues inside.

Terry

[cueman]

I think the players were just being a little naive thinking that the baggage handlers would take more care of their cues being as though they were famous players who would be known around the world.

Also I think these incidents (Mark Williams cue got damaged too) happened shortly after the 911 incident, meaning that the players could no longer take their cues onboard with them as they used to be able to. They learned their lessons the hard way but IMO Hendry was already in deline, its just the cue brought that deline on more rapidly perhaps but that cue was falling to bits anyway. It was never the same after Laurie Annandale made big alterations to it, Hendry never won a major title after those change IIRC.

[cazmac1]

Can anyone tell me the length and balance point of hendry's original cue. Thanks

[cally]

Can anyone tell me the length and balance point of hendry's original cue. Thanks

Before or after break?....

[cazmac1]

Before or after break?....

Hi cally, befor but would be interesting to know the after as well?

[The Stig]

I think the players were just being a little naive thinking that the baggage handlers would take more care of their cues being as though they were famous players who would be known around the world.

Thats how i see it.

Its not much different to what cue companies do when they send out brand new cues out to different parts of the world, the majority of them send the cues out in a plastic tube. If something heavy in a cargo hold went on top of that plastic tube it would minimum bend the tube especially if most of the weight was in the middle, your relying on the loaders not putting your cue on the bottom of the pile or to stack anything heavy on top of it, to them its just another parcel.