Do you still have your first cube?

[antoineccantin]

MY first DIY, sold it for $33

33$!!!

 

[5BLD]

I still have my oldest cube's core, but my parents threw away the pieces (thought it was useless without the core... although it was me who dismantled it...).

In fact, the core is in the cube I use now. I use my old storebought core (dunno how it survived the vaseline) with new storebought pieces.

 

[Andrew Ricci]

why did you throw it at your sister? Anger issues?

Yes, as a matter of fact, I do. I threw my first guhong at a wall and its core broke as well. Otherwise, I have been very careful with my cubes.

 

[aminayuko]

why did you throw a guhong at the wall? it is very nice with lubricant and did you replace the core?

 

[Andrew Ricci]

why did you throw a guhong at the wall?

Like I said, I was angry.

it is very nice with lubricant and did you replace the core?

It was very nice, but a few pieces also broke, so it was beyond repair. I bought a new one at Harvard Spring, and lubricated it with 50k wt differential oil. It is now much better than the old one.

 

[aminayuko]

if i were you i would get a cube less worthy to be thrown at a wall. and why did you get angry? you don't have to tell me if it is personal or you don't feel like sharing it.

 

[Andrew Ricci]

if i were you i would get a cube less worthy to be thrown at a wall. and why did you get angry? you don't have to tell me if it is personal or you don't feel like sharing it.

I was angry because I was over my head in schoolwork (see procrastination) and my mom and brother were taunting me. I just threw a random cube, and it happened to be a really good one.

 

[Specs112]

I was angry because I was over my head in schoolwork (see procrastination) and my mom and brother were taunting me. I just threw a random cube, and it happened to be a really good one.

I only throw storeboughts when I'm angry.
Still have my first cube... it survived being thrown, but it no longer has any stickers due to a different incident.
It's not good enough of a cube to be worth replacing the stickers, but I keep it around for nostalgia.

 

[HumanDude]

My first cube was a storebought. I cracked a centre piece when I was cubing at school and accidentally dropped it from the third floor stairwell.

 

[rubixwiz031]

Mine got stolen from me at school- it was just a rubiks storebought though.

 

[caseyd]

my first was stolen and thrown against a wall crappy storebought, sold my second after modding it, and dont really feel anything sentimental over cubes

 

[ninjabob7]

My first cube was an old storebought with flat centers and less crappy stickers than current storeboughts. Still have it, and it's still a great cube - I only stopped using it because it started popping too often. Started out so hard to turn but now it's almost as good as an old type A. It still has all the stickers too (but all peeling at the corners).
Then I had a series of storeboughts that people gave me - two are now my Siamese, one broke after dropping it (I think it had Vaseline in it but that wasn't my doing), and one got really loose but I later made a "hybrid" with the broken-in edges and a modded storebought core + corners.
First DIY was a Ghost Hand, sold it to my brother after I got an Alpha V (as a gift, a month later), and he promptly lost it at school.

Off topic but do other people give you cubes? I have never paid for a storebought and I've owned at least 9.

 

[RyanO]

I got my first cube at a career fair. It was a promotional cube with Bloomberg logos on it. I still have it, but I restickered it with Shepherd cube stickers. The Shepherd cube is a mofo to solve by the way.

 

[aminayuko]

define mofo

 

[blackzabbathfan]

mine l lubed with vaseline then changed into a siamese, i traded it for a snake

 

[Samania]

Mine broke after the first day I learnt how to solve the cube.

 

[theace]

My first cube was a cheapass Rs. 20 cube that I smashed (because it didn't turn well). The next 4 cubes were storeboughts, all of which broke. My first speed cube, the Ghost Hand 1 got stolen in college :\ I'll be buying another GH-I for memory's sake though...

 

[cincyaviation]

It's in my sister's car.

 

[tociva]

Yes. Actually, its stickers were completely battered from cubing too much with it before I bought a speedcube. I restickered it even though I no longer use it, just to make it look good again. It has a place between my other cubes and I'll keep it forever.

 

[MrIndianTeen]

No I traded it (storebought). It was praised by this one guy so much that he offered me a CII.