Can this cue be had for $1000 or less?

jrsamples3 said:
Just looked at the product description on the provide link... 342 Inlays.
Can you imagine the time it takes to create and hand glue 342 inlays? I'm curious...
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I'm going to say their labor cost on making one of these is a relatively small percentage of that retail price. I won't guess an exact number.
 
Maybe if you buy the one from "One Feather" it'll be half as much...pretty cue though
 
05carbondrz said:
Just my opinion,There are much better playing cues to be had for 1K.It's a Buyers Paradise for used Custom Cues right now.
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Any custom cue you buy for under 1k is either beat to sxxt, with pencil shafts or plain as dirt. Even 2k won't get you many inlays and fancy design, maybe a couple of lame diamonds or dots on a four pointer. Nobody is going to look twice at a cue like that. Unless they are cue nerds, they'll assume it's a 300 dollar lucasi. I don't care about some cue a guy assembled in his garage from pre-made blanks and possibly put a couple of inlays in. Some guys love to assign great prestige to owning something like that. I honestly don't understand where the prestige is coming from? My car isn't made by a mom and pop store on the corner, and it's not a 1950's car. Now if the guy made everything himself, then I can understand it more, then it's more of a statement, but still you'd think people would make something different when they do everything themselves, right? Also, when it comes to playability, the production guys have caught up. the cues are better balanced, some are even cored etc...The part that actually makes a difference, the shaft, is actually ruled by production people right now. As far as taper is concerned, a lot of people have no idea how to tune a taper and they just ask for "pro-tapers". If you are going to ask for a lame pro-taper, at least the expensive cues generally have better shaft wood, but even that is not always true. Some of the shaftwood McDermott use in their cues is as good as any I've ever seen.

Generally the custom shafts sit in the closed while people play with ld-shafts. I don't know anyone with stiff, traditional cues that play with the original shafts anymore. They all have some sort of aftermarket shaft on (talking about serious players). Schön cues, Joss cues, and especially espensive custom makers, they all have some aftermarket shaft on. Cues known for their "playability", and the one thing that gets removed is the actual business end of the cue! And some of those people have the nerve to look down on people who play with "production cues". Give me a damned break!

99.9% of all cues are boring as hell. No creativity at all. The only people who actually try to make something different are the production companies and the very high end makers. All the others are pumping out 1950-1960's designs or the same tribal bullshit that everybody apparently buy from the same guy.

Something as elaborate as this Viking is bound to cost at least 5k from an unknown, maybe triple that or more from an established maker. Most unknowns can't even make something like this. I'm not very fond of turqouise myself, but at least it's something different than the millions of four pointers with diamonds, plain janes and stupid god damned 3k$ sneaky petes. If you like it, go for it.

The subject of playability is a vexed one. On one hand, Vikings are not really prestigious cues, but they play perfectly ok. The newer ones have ok balance and the Vicore is not a bad shaft at all. I bet this cue is more than good enough to satisfy most players.
 
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Straightpool_99 said:
Any custom cue you buy for under 1k is either beat to sxxt, with pencil shafts or plain as dirt. Even 2k won't get you many inlays and fancy design, maybe a couple of lame diamonds or dots on a four pointer. Nobody is going to look twice at a cue like that. Unless they are cue nerds, they'll assume it's a 300 dollar lucasi. I don't care about some cue a guy assembled in his garage from pre-made blanks and possibly put a couple of inlays in. Some guys love to assign great prestige to owning something like that. I honestly don't understand where the prestige is coming from? My car isn't made by a mom and pop store on the corner, and it's not a 1950's car. Now if the guy made everything himself, then I can understand it more, then it's more of a statement, but still you'd think people would make something different when they do everything themselves, right? Also, when it comes to playability, the production guys have caught up. the cues are better balanced, some are even cored etc...The part that actually makes a difference, the shaft, is actually ruled by production people right now. As far as taper is concerned, a lot of people have no idea how to tune a taper and they just ask for "pro-tapers". If you are going to ask for a lame pro-taper, at least the expensive cues generally have better shaft wood, but even that is not always true. Generally the custom shafts sit in the closed while people play with ld-shafts. I don't know anyone with stiff, traditional cues that play with the original shafts anymore. They all have some sort of aftermarket shaft on (talking about serious players).

99.9% of all cues are boring as hell. No creativity at all. The only people who actually try to make something different are the production companies and the very high end makers. All the others are pumping out 1950-1960's designs or the same tribal bullshit that everybody apparently buy from the same guy.

Something as elaborate as this Viking is bound to cost at least 5k from an unknown, maybe triple that or more from an established maker. Most unknowns can't even make something like this. I'm not very fond of turqouise myself, but at least it's something different than the millions of four pointers with diamonds, plain janes and stupid god damned 3k$ sneaky petes. If you like it, go for it.

The subject of playability is a vexed one. On one hand, Vikings are not really prestigious cues, but they play perfectly ok. The newer ones have ok balance and the Vicore is not a bad shaft at all. I bet this cue is more than good enough to satisfy most players.
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You must not be paying attention to the 2nd Hand custom Cue market.Yes,You can't get a ugly cue with 479 inlays but You can get a bad ass PLAYING Cue for 1K all day long.Pretty much nothing is moving in the Cue market without a very steep discount.3K sneaky Petes? Can You link me to One please(A true sneaky)?
 
05carbondrz said:
You must not be paying attention to the 2nd Hand custom Cue market.Yes,You can't get a ugly cue with 479 inlays but You can get a bad ass PLAYING Cue for 1K all day long.Pretty much nothing is moving in the Cue market without a very steep discount.3K sneaky Petes? Can You link me to One please(A true sneaky)?
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There was a Searing sneaky for sale on this forum for that price. The link has been removed now. It had brown collars, a brown bumper and a metal ring, so not a "true" sneaky. But a conversion of a house cue, none the less.
 
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$4,000 is beyond ridiculous for that thing. What a c9mpany decides to MSRP a thing at has little to do with that things value.

$4,000 can buy an insane collectable custom cue in todays market that will hold its value. That Viking cue is worth way less than MSRP before you even walk in the store, let alone after you walk out with it and go to the pool hall and shoot with the thing. 12 hours after you buy that thing if you can sell it for 2k you did phenomenal.
 
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