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I played with a Mike Sigel cue and was impressed with its performance. Why have these cues lost value?
I played with a Mike Sigel cue and was impressed with its performance. Why have these cues lost value?
I played with a Mike Sigel cue and was impressed with its performance. Why have these cues lost value?
Funny, I played with them and was not impressed at all. I remember that they were all, even the lower end cues, pretty high priced. I think Sigel tried to sell them more with his name and not the workmanship.
In the beginning his cues were bringing premium prices. Then he, or someone else, started liquidating a bunch of them on Ebay for next to nothing. Cues that were at one time selling for $2K+ were being sold for $400 or so on Ebay. And poof... there goes their value...
Exactly right, I to also think he tried selling them behind his name and not the workmenship. Many also believe that they where made for mike with just his name attached to them, I doubt it very much that Mike was behind the lathe doing all the work. It takes years and years to gain the know how and all the tools to be able to make a quality cue. There had to be a cue maker behind this some how and I doubt is was Mike.
But it's my understanding that Mike spent a pretty good amount of time working for a cue maker or two. Seems like I remember him working for Joss 'back in the day'. I'm not really sure of his level of mastery, but he's probably not completely lost at a lathe.
I've always found his designs to be rather gaudy and not really my cup of tea. I've had the chance to play with a few. 1 was magical and the other 2 were turds IMO.
Same, limited designs + rounded inlays screams "production" and also usually equates to very low-resale value. That's because nearly all of the well-versed collectors shun stuff like that.
Jamie is correct, it seemed that most of the cues he made were bought up by one guy, and when those started getting dumped on ebay, that pretty much chiseled in stone what the market for those cues would be.
And all that happened when the market was still good.
But the ones I tried did hit very well.
But it's my understanding that Mike spent a pretty good amount of time working for a cue maker or two. Seems like I remember him working for Joss 'back in the day'. I'm not really sure of his level of mastery, but he's probably not completely lost at a lathe.
I've always found his designs to be rather gaudy and not really my cup of tea. I've had the chance to play with a few. 1 was magical and the other 2 were turds IMO.
Same, limited designs + rounded inlays screams "production" and also usually equates to very low-resale value. That's because nearly all of the well-versed collectors shun stuff like that.
Jamie is correct, it seemed that most of the cues he made were bought up by one guy, and when those started getting dumped on ebay, that pretty much chiseled in stone what the market for those cues would be.
And all that happened when the market was still good.
But the ones I tried did hit very well.