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Gus Szamboti 70's
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What a joke! This thread is going down as one of the most annoying and useless threads this forum has ever produced.
So I guess you can take pleasure in that very obvious fact!
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That is quite an interesting observation. I wonder how quickly he became a master cue maker?
I don't know.
Gus was friends with Tony that owned the pool room I hung out in in Toms River N.J.
He would visit occasionally to play one pocket.
The rule was to not talk about cues with him unless he brought it up.
I remember he said two things about cue making.
He was talking about shafts and someone asked how he knew a blank would make a good shaft and he said I just know.
He once said that Balabuska taught him a lot about cue making but not all,I had to figure out a lot on my own.
How old are you?
I know a guy in Jersey that got his Gus in the early 80's and still plays with it today.
So 40 years or so.
This guy has no reason to sell it as he is very financially secure.
As a mathematician, I find the distribution of Gus Szamboti cues interesting to ponder. For example, how many of them ended up in Japan when they were buying up everything? How many remain in the USA? How many larger collectors in the USA have say 25 of them? At one point 40 years ago they were being sent out one at a time but now the distribution of the 1200 cues is unknown. Who has the most and what is that number? Is there someone out there that owns 100 of them? How many of the 1200 are actually for sale? Are the nicer ones available for sale for under $10,000? Questions like that I think are worthy of some thought.
You ignored my question, but it has bearing on the premises.
How many people have died between, say... 1975 and today? How many of those people bought Gus cues?
How many Gus cues were sold by dealers instead of single customer orders?
How many people have kept their cue for 40 years?
Probably not many.
Interestingly enough, if you sell yours, it won't be a single owner cue so it won't have that cachet anymore. Since you're just being greedy about it, you're trapped in that paradox. Sell it and lose value? Or keep it and have a priceless gem.
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That pretty much says it all. Now if we can get the OP to silence themselves then we might be getting somewhere. Does not get much clearer than that.
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That raises an interesting question. Did Gus have a group of dealers that marketed and sold his cues for him as well as being able to do an individual sale straight from Gus as I did 45 years ago?
Absolutely
That is what I had been led to believe which is why I had to wait a very long time to get my order finished
Except two people in Philadelphia had brand new Gus cues to sell
Gus would make a basic cue for around $450 and deliver it.
The person getting it could sell it for double that immediately.
If Gus found out that would be the last cue he made for you.
I asked Tony who owned the pool room and was friends with Gus how to get him to make a cue for me.
He said play him one pocket and be real nice.
I said so suck up to him to get on the list?
He said yes.
I said pass I'll just keep playing with my Schon.
This was my uncles Gus and the Fellini he purchased from Gus. My uncle played with this cue from 76-till his death in 2000. He went through a pair of shafts, I went with him to pick up the replacements, that is when I met Gus for the first time. We then went back down a few months later to pick up another cue, he offered my uncle a plain 4 point cue for me if I was interested and at 14, I had other ideas, so I politely declined. IN total my uncle received 4 new cues from Gus, he would have had 5 by Nov. of 89, it just wasn't to be. He never waited more than 6 months for any cue. I now own this cue and case. Its same family owned since new.
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Cool story. What do you think is going on with the wrap on that cue?
Gary Spaeth and his dad Joey Spaeth were the ones that put a word in with Gus for me so I could get one made in the 1976 area