thursday at work...
in keeping with the billiards / pool related theme of my last journal entry this update will feature the cues that i played my best with.
These two cues were made by the late Frank Coster. Frank made approx 137 cues before his death. of those 137 cues roughly 85% of them were very plane with no inlays in them at all. another 10% had some inly work in them, and the 5% were highly elaborate. what you see below is one of the "mid" cues, and one of the "high" cues.
i played with both of these cues a lot, however the "red" one was my favorate to play with. not because it was the fanciest of the two, but because of the way it felt in my hand. that cue has that certain something, that feeling that gives you absolute confidence in your game if you know what you're doing.
let me be clear here. these cues did not belong to me, they belonged to a very very close friend of mine, Randy "The Legend" Fry, who died back in November of 2003 from cancer. while i did my own cues, and several of them, Randy used to let me play with these cause as he got older he started to fear playing with them cause of their increasing value. that had no effect on me, and he trusted me enough to give me these cues for periods of time to use.
this is a picture of Randy taken at the 2003 Super Billiards Expo in Valley Forge, PA in March of that year. the SBE is the center of the billiard / pool calender, and is just awesome.
in the spring of 2001 a cue collector offered Randy a nice sum for these two cues. so by the end of spring that year they were sold for the price of $22,500 USD ($17,000 for the red one, and $5,500 for the blonde one). with that they were gone, and now reside in the same collector's collection never to be used again.
i have never found a cue that feels that same way as the red one did, or even the blonde one did, and i have never played better then when i was playing with one of those two cues. they were in my opinion perfect cues.
today Frank's cues are highly sought after. being that there was only 137 of them made they are rather hard to come by. in 2004 another friend of mine sold his Coster which just so happens to be the "sister" cue to Randy's red one for $42,000. it went to the same collector who bought both of Randy's. this collector now has from the last i heard about 60 to 70 of the 137 cues that Frank made.
the pictures of the two cues above, and the picture of Randy were taken by Proficent Billiards. it's owner is a friend of mine, and also was a friend of Randy's, and infact brokered the sale of the cues.
so there is a little pool / billiard history of mine for you.
in keeping with the billiards / pool related theme of my last journal entry this update will feature the cues that i played my best with.
These two cues were made by the late Frank Coster. Frank made approx 137 cues before his death. of those 137 cues roughly 85% of them were very plane with no inlays in them at all. another 10% had some inly work in them, and the 5% were highly elaborate. what you see below is one of the "mid" cues, and one of the "high" cues.
i played with both of these cues a lot, however the "red" one was my favorate to play with. not because it was the fanciest of the two, but because of the way it felt in my hand. that cue has that certain something, that feeling that gives you absolute confidence in your game if you know what you're doing.
let me be clear here. these cues did not belong to me, they belonged to a very very close friend of mine, Randy "The Legend" Fry, who died back in November of 2003 from cancer. while i did my own cues, and several of them, Randy used to let me play with these cause as he got older he started to fear playing with them cause of their increasing value. that had no effect on me, and he trusted me enough to give me these cues for periods of time to use.
this is a picture of Randy taken at the 2003 Super Billiards Expo in Valley Forge, PA in March of that year. the SBE is the center of the billiard / pool calender, and is just awesome.
in the spring of 2001 a cue collector offered Randy a nice sum for these two cues. so by the end of spring that year they were sold for the price of $22,500 USD ($17,000 for the red one, and $5,500 for the blonde one). with that they were gone, and now reside in the same collector's collection never to be used again.
i have never found a cue that feels that same way as the red one did, or even the blonde one did, and i have never played better then when i was playing with one of those two cues. they were in my opinion perfect cues.
today Frank's cues are highly sought after. being that there was only 137 of them made they are rather hard to come by. in 2004 another friend of mine sold his Coster which just so happens to be the "sister" cue to Randy's red one for $42,000. it went to the same collector who bought both of Randy's. this collector now has from the last i heard about 60 to 70 of the 137 cues that Frank made.
the pictures of the two cues above, and the picture of Randy were taken by Proficent Billiards. it's owner is a friend of mine, and also was a friend of Randy's, and infact brokered the sale of the cues.
so there is a little pool / billiard history of mine for you.
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But i suppose most "Collectors" don't collect certain items for actual usage....
Have you met this man before, or even know who he is?
The man sounds like a cue whore!
Here use this. Your profile pic has been bugging the crap out of me.