Custom and High End Cues on the Decline?

SSP said:
That is gorgeous cue, I'd be scared to take that out on league night
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A better cue to take out on a league night is something like this that doesn't draw a lot of attention.

An ugly duckling.

A Frankenstein.

A sneaky bastard cue.

A "Dennis Tucker." (Dennis Searing shaft on a Murray Tucker butt)

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cueaddicts said:
The high-end custom cue market is alive and well. It has always been a niche market, and it has definitely changed some over that last handful of years with the recent popularity of CF shafts. I suspect it will change some more before it’s all said and done.

Change or go extinct, and all of us involved with the ICCS now don’t want to see that latter option come to be, lol.

A lot of good things happened at our Chattanooga show recently and we hope to implement some new things these next few years to help grow collecting and introduce custom cues to the younger generation of players and fans.

Stay tuned for our next show in Sept ‘27 in Savannah GA. It will be by far the biggest and boldest endeavor yet for the International Cue Collectors Show!!!!!
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who's cues are in pic 2 and who is the cuemaker in pic 4?
 
I'm still sticking with age being the deciding factor here. If you were to poll every hi-end cue buyer as to their age i'd bet pretty good that VERY few are younger than 50. As that age group gets older/dies off you'll see fewer and fewer custom cues. Younger players don't give a crap about fancy one-off cues.
 
garczar said:
I'm still sticking with age being the deciding factor here. If you were to poll every hi-end cue buyer as to their age i'd bet pretty good that VERY few are younger than 50. As that age group gets older/dies off you'll see fewer and fewer custom cues. Younger players don't give a crap about fancy one-off cues.
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I agree ,but to Sean's point about the ICCS there is a tremendous missed opportunity from an education standpoint about the art and science of cue making that ACA/ICA has dropped the ball on and ICCS can fill.

When you take the time to learn some of the history around the evolution of cue making, no matter who or when it creates curiosity. You want to see, hold, and yes even hit with one of these cues to really understand what all the fuss is about. And that is the gateway drug.

It's real easy to shit talk custom cues when you really don't have any sense of what that means but once your exposed, and I mean really and thoroughly introduced to this space you want one.

And like any good addiction it always just starts with one and then the next thing you know....
 
Benelli said:
I agree ,but to Sean's point about the ICCS there is a tremendous missed opportunity from an education standpoint about the art and science of cue making that ACA/ICA has dropped the ball on and ICCS can fill.

When you take the time to learn some of the history around the evolution of cue making, no matter who or when it creates curiosity. You want to see, hold, and yes even hit with one of these cues to really understand what all the fuss is about. And that is the gateway drug.

It's real easy to shit talk custom cues when you really don't have any sense of what that means but once your exposed, and I mean really and thoroughly introduced to this space you want one.

And like any good addiction it always just starts with one and then the next thing you know....
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pardon my ignorance but are there people that shit talks custom cues? I believe the shit talk was more towards over-valuing custom cues.
 
cueaddicts said:
Treadway, J.Bender, Exceed, Capone, Vigus, Durbin, Black, Beasley, McWorter, Owen, Shelby Williams, pfd/Drexler

and Richard Black at the podium talking about his special collection build.
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thank you for the reply
 
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