Searing 4pt, ivory & silver, 3 shafts

skins said:
Assuming that you mean you already have A LOT of cash to add to the Scruggs sale because if not I'm thinkin you'll have to get closer to selling ALL of your cues in your signature to be in the ballpark....
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Sell all his cues?

I prefer Bava's Prewitt over that Searing.

How much better is that Searing compared to that Prewitt. When you hit a certain price point the difference is miniscule.
 
Bavafongoul said:
.................The Searing cues I spot that I like I'd rate very high in price and some others, well, I just have to question the seller's asking price as being unrealistic. Furthermore, in my opinion, every seller overestimates the value of the cue for sale and buyers never pay the listed price, not in today's marketplace. But the same could probably said about cue collectors assigning sentimental values to cues in their collection. Until the cue sells, it hard to be certain about prices.......full price still happens but it takes a long time from what I've seen.....a very long time.......and I still harbor doubts that the ones I'm thinking about actually sold for the listed asking price........sale thread prices get deleted so one never knows.

In general, I think $5,000 - $8,500 should fetch a lot of cue in today's secondary market but I don't know how Searing cues stack up versus Szamboti or Hercek cues. I think Don Sureman has a Searing cue that will awe people in person and this one should sell at the show......the design is genuinely a classic look.

Matt B.
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Searing cues, especially the ones made in the last 10 years, command their price every time one comes up for sale (very rarely see any for sale in the first place). There is very little haggling per se... Its supply and demand period. Very little supply and those who know how he makes cues create demand over all others... That's the short story version... No sentimental value here...

If you want to be part of the Searing club you either have to take advantage of early cues that pop up from time to time, get lucky enough to get him to make you a cue, or take advantage of sales like this and pony up the dough.. Any way it happens it is worth it...
 
It's like every year people question the prices of Searings.
The next year price goes up again.
Will the price go down next year?
I doubt it.
 
JoeyInCali said:
It's like every year people question the prices of Searings.
The next year price goes up again.
Will the price go down next year?
I doubt it.
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You'd figure just from that people would start to get the picture... Joey, I know you know the skinny...
 
dom_poppa said:
Sell all his cues?



I prefer Bava's Prewitt over that Searing.



How much better is that Searing compared to that Prewitt. When you hit a certain price point the difference is miniscule.
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Ah...the pretentious cue maker aka troll aka know it all is back in action.

Incase you don't already know which I doubt you do cos you don't actually collect cues but troll on AZ and pretend you actually buy stuff, in your words when you hit a certain price point it's no longer just buying a playing cue it's about collecting a fine cue.
 
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Dayyuum......to figure Searings you use to could approximate market value by multiplying the original cost by pi and then rounding up to the nearest 500. Looks like I'm gonna have to get me a new cueculator. :grin: :cool:

In all seriousness, GREAT CUE....just my style !!
 
This thread got stale for a couple of days. Just checked
it out again this evening and it's livened up a bit. You guys
make for a fun read sometimes...haha.

No doubt this is a great Searing, Don, I guess you could
say it makes almost 3 of mine...lol, but true. I love the
simple 4 point 2 veneer Searing that I recently acquired,
though, and I got it from none other than Don Sherman.
Thanks buddy and good luck with this beast at the expo.
 
cueaddicts said:
Dayyuum......to figure Searings you use to could approximate market value by multiplying the original cost by pi and then rounding up to the nearest 500. Looks like I'm gonna have to get me a new cueculator. :grin: :cool:

In all seriousness, GREAT CUE....just my style !!
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or you can pick a number, pretty much any number
 
Okay....that resolved my interest. At $17500, skins was right when he said "all my cues". Nope, much rather try for both other cues
if I was willing to part with that much moola which I'm not.prepared to do. Nonetheless, the Searing is nonetheless a darn nice cue.

GL at the upcoming show.

Matt B.
 
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cueaddicts said:
Dayyuum......to figure Searings you use to could approximate market value by multiplying the original cost by pi and then rounding up to the nearest 500. Looks like I'm gonna have to get me a new cueculator. :grin: :cool:

In all seriousness, GREAT CUE....just my style !!
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S,

Your formula wouldn't have gotten the last one that escaped my death grip:)
 
dom_poppa said:
Sell all his cues?

I prefer Bava's Prewitt over that Searing.

How much better is that Searing compared to that Prewitt. When you hit a certain price point the difference is miniscule.
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Preferences have nothing to do with market value... Geez I prefer to look at the art of Warhol over da Vinci but I would take any work by Leonardo over Andy any day...

How much better you ask? Well I've owned and examined many of Ed's and Dennis's cues. Ed makes extremely nice cues. Dennis makes better than extremely nice cues... How much MORE value does that add? Demand and sale price tell the story.....
 
ribdoner said:
S,

Your formula wouldn't have gotten the last one that escaped my death grip:)
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I'll bet.....:):):):):):):):)

Cues are funny, aren't they? Back in the day, we use to trade Skips for Searings. Nobody believes that nowadays....lol. Oh, to have had a crystal ball. :embarrassed2:
 
a must see, every ivory inlay is outlined in silver. the Hoppe ring has SEARING inlaid in silver. joint cap, signature, SEARING in Hoppe ring & chrome weight bolt w/ SEARING CUES all line up perfectly. insane! maybe. just another way of showing Dennis goes overboard on detail.
 
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