The most expensive cue in the world....

Cornerman

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In general the most expensive cues in the world are garbage. The either can't be played with like this one or they're just an ornate piece of crap like a couple of others I can think of.

I'm not sure where you're going with this, but the three cues that I know of that had the highest price tags (three different cuemakers) are very playable.

Freddie
 

Johnny Rosato

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Why you always editing, jrosa?

Let us have our entertainment.
I deleted it because I had checked "Quote message in reply" when I wanted it as a stand alone comment.
Then I was interrupted, so didn't post a comment. So for your enjoyment, here goes ~

"I'm glad my McDermott D-1 was built before this"!

Thanks BB, I'm highly amused with your comments also, this is a fun forum!
 
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michael4

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yep, its in my collection......
 

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Cornerman

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Post some legitimate 150K+ cues, I know they are out there.

Thomas Wayne - Celtic Prince
Bob Meucci - Taj Majal
Mike Lambros - Dragon Cue

All into the six figures. All are very playable cues. The Dragon Cue hit just like any Mike Lambros Cue.


Freddie
 

johnnysd

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Dumbest cue ever.

At the ICCS show, Richard Black had a joint protector on a pedestal. It was insanely fancy. He wants someone to commission a cue to go with the joint protector. He wants $200,000. I would suspect with all the precious metals, jewels and stuff he will need to use it will weigh 30 ounces or more and be completely unplayable. That type of cue holds no interest to me, Cues need to be functional art IMO. Wouldnt Mizzeraks Bushka be worth six figures?
 

$TAKE HOR$E

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I thought it would be a good break cue, ill be listing it soon....or doing a raffle with 15,001 tickets at $10 per
 

jackpot

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I would like it better with Irish linen, but
it's okay. What does the case look like ?
I wonder if DEANOC could sell it without pictures ?
jack
 

Bob Farr

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I wonder if it rolls straight together and apart? I also like a forward balance on my player.
 
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pt109

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Thomas Wayne - Celtic Prince
Bob Meucci - Taj Majal
Mike Lambros - Dragon Cue

All into the six figures. All are very playable cues. The Dragon Cue hit just like any Mike Lambros Cue.


Freddie

I’ve seen the Celtic Prince and the Taj Mahal.
...this is the Lambros Dragon Cue.....wow

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Rockin' Robin

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Okay....how did this monster come into being? Many years ago when the pool boom took off, McDermott was the only American manufacturer that could meet the growing demand for pool cues at the time. They put on 2-3 shifts of workers and delivered product way ahead of all the others that were not prepared to spend the $$$ it would take to rebuild their inventories.

Jim McDermott's timing could not have been better. He had just built a manufacturing plant that would be a cue makers wet dream.

He had master machinists, computer programmers, and an artist or two that were always coming up with new design concepts. One particular artist was Roy Nehs....who had his own studio in the plant where he was in charge of most of the ad copy, monthly news letters and magazines that came pouring out of the facility.

There were stacks and stacks of cue renderings that Roy would bring to Jim's desk for approval or rejection. That is why in the 80's and 90's you could recognize a McD from across the room. If Jim had seen a particular design that he had seen before by another maker, it was almost always
rejected.

I used to take several trips a year to the factory to pick out some nice pieces and would have free access to 5 thousand or so cues that would be in stock. During one of these trips, Roy gave us a tour of his studio and the story of the Intimadator cue.

In one stack of rejected cue designs, some of which were quite beautiful and innovative, was a pencil sketch of the afformentioned cue. Jim asked Roy what it was, and his reply was......Oh it is just a fantasy that I dreamed up....but we could never build anything like that. BAM....the gauntlet was thrown. Never tell Jim that he couldn't build something.

And the rest is history.....a famous knife maker was brought in and the cue became reality.
 
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