they get those #'s from what people are paying for them.
and i'll disagree with your thoughts on DP, and his cues. He can make cues with the best of them, check out an older hi dollar one, you'll see. I can't imagine how hard it must be to do an endless run of 1/1's, but i'll bet it ain't ez, at all
He deserves alot more respect than he gets, if for nothing else, the size of his balls,lol. Just look at all the over priced sneaky petes running around these days for 4-600. that's cue making 101 right there, you're paying for the name on it, not the cue. As far as i'm concerned alot of the hyped up crap that's came out in the last 15 years is just that, hype. crap "unilock" joints, $300 shafts, etc. real players dont need no lil kitty cat on their shaft to get out, and they sure are'nt too lazy to screw a shaft on a butt to play some either. to me ,that's what DP's cues say, F the B.S., and the hype. good cue, at a good price. anyone that pays more than $1500 on a new cue, and the makers still alive and making cues, is getting robbed imo, and it better be a pretty mofo at that,lol. maybe what DP's doing will have some effect on all the relatively new cuemakers, that are charging overly inflated prices.4-5 g's for a cue that does'nt even have real ivory, and the maker's only been building cues for a short while?please..