That is less than $100 per cue average.Smorgass Bored said:I wonder what the total cost would be to collect at least one cue from EACH of the 700+ cuemakers listed.
Anyone want to take a wild guess ?
Doug
( my guess is at least $63,700 )
cueman said:That is less than $100 per cue average.
I think $350,000 would be closer which is about $500 per cue average and that wopuld not get you much as far as inlays goes.
classiccues said:It was a running count of cuemakers!!!
How many are there in the US, you know all together?
I'll start..
Richard Black
Paul Fanelli
John Bender
Mike Bender
Skip Weston
George Weston
Perry Weston
Barry Szamboti
Joel Hercek
Bill Schick
Murray Tucker
Randy Mobley
Ted Harris
Andy Gilbert
Sheldon LeBow
Kent Davis
Steve Klein
Bill Stroud
Thomas Wayne
Richard Chudy
Joss Cues
Viking
Schon
Bob Runde
Art Cantando
Paul Rubino
Please cut and paste and add as we go... I am betting 350-400
JV
Tony Zinzola said:The list may be over 700, but how many actually build cues versus do repairs? If Chris added his whole mailing list, there are probably quite a few on there who don't actually build cues. Probably quite a few who bought equipment and never used it as well or gave up after one attempt. It's pretty intimidating making your first cue or even your tenth. There were many times I was ready to throw my equipment out the window and call it quits. Now I can't. I'm addicted to the smell of Brazilian Rosewood.
I did not add my whole mailing list. I went through and added almost all the guys who have inlay machines and some who have Deluxe Cue Smiths who buy some wood and such as that says they are building cues. My guess is I have about two or three hundred more cue building customers that I did not list. I see a few on the list that might not should be on there. I think Ricco Cervantes is back in Mexico now for instance. Is Mike Morgan, Michael Morgan cues? If so, his name is Mike Miller and he is already listed. So the list is probably not perfect, but I still think there are over 1000 cuemakers in the USA and probably another 1000 easily who just do repairs on a lathe.Tony Zinzola said:The list may be over 700, but how many actually build cues versus do repairs? If Chris added his whole mailing list, there are probably quite a few on there who don't actually build cues. Probably quite a few who bought equipment and never used it as well or gave up after one attempt. It's pretty intimidating making your first cue or even your tenth. There were many times I was ready to throw my equipment out the window and call it quits. Now I can't. I'm addicted to the smell of Brazilian Rosewood.