Mine was a centre jointed ramin cue from a Kay's catalogue that I used when I first started playing pool. Then I got a centre jointed maple Ray Reardon from the next issue Kay's catalogue that I also used for pool. When I switched to snooker I got myself a centre jointed ash powerglide that I was quite fond of but then I had a one piece (now a 3/4) 62 inch ash hand made especially for me and I've had this for thirty years or so.
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Originally Posted by neil taperell View PostKeith Auld 3/4 cue , bought from him when he had his shop in Wimbledon . Wish I kept it now ......would have saved me a few ££££££'s . Was actually , when I think about it now , a very decent cue for the money .77 in a match, 97 in a line up
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I bought two Chinese jobbys off ebay two and a half years ago, for under thirty pound , I loved it but the joint went and when I tried to fix it ,it went all pingy ,so I gave it away to a young lad in the club who didn't have a cue, I still have my sons one and the shaft is so nice every now and then I think about getting a nice butt made for it and playing with it. I use it as my practice cue in the house.This is how you play darts ,MVG two nines in the same match!
https://youtu.be/yqTGtwOpHu8
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Mid 1980's, a BCE Jimmy White 2 piece with the big white plastic centre joint that looked just like the cues that a lot of the pros seemed to use at that time! It was nicked out of the back of my car along with my stereo and speakers on my first day at a new job in South London. Gutted!
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Originally Posted by Rifle View PostThey are not painted, or at least they weren't in the 80s and I know this because I took my first one apart and the ebony is pure black and rock hard, very difficult to hand saw through. The butt of the cue was lacquered and this caused confusion. If you chip the lacquer off and push a pin in, you will soon see what's underneath.
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A cue craft cue - can't remember the exact brand name - but it was cool looked nice ash ebony something red on the veneer and maybe rose wood or snake wood - not sure cant remember I thought as it had a weird joint - a quick release triangle-ish thing that took only a slight twist to join together - sold it to my mate who got drunk one night - forgot to join the dots up when he was playing and buggered up the threads - I don't know if it played well or badly as I played badly back then and never knew any different.
Does anyone know the cue I mean?
I also had a great case a three wide aluminium barracuda case - could fit all sorts of extensions and bits in them cases.Last edited by Byrom; 16 February 2015, 03:31 AM.
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Just looked through the posts Rob sounds like he had the same cue - a few of them where made with a similar joint I think mine had four splices of either rose wood or snakewood and a red and pinkish veneers over the splices - cue craft monarch rings a bell that might be the one.
Made me laugh reading back through the thread finding that we all thought the same as each other about the joint - though I liked it at first - I felt like Bruce lee with his numchuckers taking it apart after wining a game on the odd occasion - thought I was cool but in reality I probably looked like this.
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Originally Posted by Byrom View PostJust looked through the posts Rob sounds like he had the same cue - a few of them where made with a similar joint I think mine had four splices of either rose wood or snakewood and a red and pinkish veneers over the splices - cue craft monarch rings a bell that might be the one.
Made me laugh reading back through the thread finding that we all thought the same as each other about the joint - though I liked it at first - I felt like Bruce lee with his numchuckers taking it apart after wining a game on the odd occasion - thought I was cool but in reality I probably looked like this.
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