Cue Collectors

[Stupree]

Hardcore cue collecting is a great term there mate, I guess I'm more of a soft collector with black circles to cover up the ferrules and badges

I know of a couple of chaps who really do collect and rarely does a cue leave them, there are a few who deal between themselves often swapping when the get a cleaner or more preferred version of a cue.

I tend to accumulate with the intent of building a collection and then the love of a trade or deal kicks in and before I know it I have just a handful of cues. There has only been a couple of cues I really regret letting go though.

[DeanH]

I believe there is an underground of cue-collectors of a very exclusive club
ADR knows them I believe

[Ramon]

That's kind of what I was wondering Ramon, and I guess everyone will 'just give the new cue a knock to see how it feels' and that's where will power will come into play
So a guy who has 4 top end cues say a JP, TW, CJ and say a Stanford - all spec'd the same, what's the thinking then?
play a bad frame, change the cue or use whatever you fancy on the day as they all play the same ??

to be honest I agree with culraven !!! !!! I did'nt mean you should'nt do it !!! as you know ,, we all have our good days and our bad day with snooker !!!! I do'nt think that has to do with your cue ,, especially if the cue suits your game ,, than is good enough. as long as you do'nt reproach ur mistakes in your game to your cue ,,'s Nice to have a collection. I would like it too. a fine collection of all cue makers. but I believe that you should have the discipline to keep one cue as ur playing cue. imo that is important. also agree with Stu, this is a great forum ,, look at the pictures ,, talk about snooker and learn some usefull. After all, we all love cue sport and snooker !!!!!!!!!!

[itsnoteasy]

If I could I would love a collection of cues, but they would have to be players.

[culraven]

It's not a path I'd reccomend, bargains are few and far between these days and once you take into account postage and Ebay fees you have to sell the cue for at least £50 more than you paid for it just to break even. I buy a lot of crap and spend a lot of time cleaning up old cues just to fund my habit. The only way you can pick up bargains is from charity shops and car boot sales. You can somtimes pick up some nice unbadged cues in antique centre type places, mainly because they can't google what it is really worth, same goes for cash convertor type places, and you can really barter with them because 9 times out of 10 they know jack all about snooker!

[perpetualboredom]

Spot on Culraven - far too many speculators out there to find many bargains these days.
I don't know about any 'secret group' of collectors but there has definitely been moves towards keeping cues in the UK rather than always following the money overseas with the people I trade with. With the cues I collect there's usually an ebay price and a collectors price - Its not always one or the other that's higher! Then there's Gordon price which is £1 higher than whatever the next highest bidder (usually with 3 snipes in the last secs).

[Darren Maudling]

Thanks guys the one thing i am getting is the 'passion' you all have for the game and your cues
I must admit i was biased to hand spliced cues but having seen some of the cues on this forum, especially the new thread for old cues, I am really taken by many of the old cues so certainly would not 'overlook' an old cue now if it were machine spliced
And I also agree there are some really nice people on this forum - lots of help support and advice, I'm personally enjoying being here