Soon to be a lost art, in a way it kinda makes Pool more of a sport, there are no custom decorated baseball bats, tennis racquets or bowling balls, maybe different colors but not collectable.
Highest Demand Current Cues?
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Well, there are some very, very expensive baseball bats but it doesn't seem to be due to the ivory and turquoise inlays.
Various sources list several baseball bats that have sold for 1 to 1.5 million. Think Gehrig and Ruth.
I consider cue blinging more of a highly skilled craft than art. You take half the length of a skinny cylinder and do you level finest to decorate it. Not much aesthetic room there. Descriptors like anti climactic, and gaudy come to mind. Results are seldom even pretty. To be fair, many builders do produce their share of gorgeous work but there's that fantasy market value again.
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when i was a kid i had a 20$ cue from K Mart ... beat the sh1t out of everyone with it .... custom cues are more about ... custom .... than adding anymore to your game than a production cue. spending 7k for something like a South West is borderline retarded
You made my point, those bats and racquets are valuable because of who used them not because of decoration, I wonder how much Efern's cue will be worth ?
Funny but SW has beat the Dow easily the last few decades ..
Several pros played with SW without endorsement deals.
SEVERAL.
The most expensive ever just sold, one of Ruth’s went for $1.85 million in a private auction. As some of fooker just said to his wife- you can’t take it with you!
Not much at all imo. Nobody really cares about pool accept for the people that play it.
Of course those bats and rackets aren't really worth shit. The value is artificial just like any other collectable that doesn't have precious metals and jewels in it.(and even those values are artificial....they have just been established as a trade medium for hundreds and thousands of years amongst humans)
I have several guitars that are vintage. I dont collect just play. Different ones inspire different music. Guys get hard-ons for them too. They are just guitars to me. Been offered tons of money for a few. I got mine from people that had them and didn't know what they had. They were happy with my offer and cash in hand so I kept my mouth shut.
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We need a pool stick made from a tree that lightning struck.
Joel Hercek, Ernie Guitterez and Ed Prewitt……
Here’s three no longer around that I’d get…..Tim Scruggs, Burton Spain, Gus Szamboti.
Here’s three no longer around that I’d get…..Tim Scruggs, Burton Spain, Gus Szamboti.
Resulting in?
It's from "The Natural". Redford made Wonderboy. Thought oh man a stick that survived that would be an incredible conversational piece.
I may be wrong on this, and higher end cue sellers won't like it; but I think that the days of buying cues at X price and seeing major appreciation in price beyond normal inflation are gone. I don't think that many cues selling at market for $4,000 today will sell for $6,000 in 5 years from now - just bc of demand - but maybe bc of hyper inflation- who knows.
Most players seem to be shunning the traditional maple shafts anyhow, so not using the complete cue from a maker that charges $3,000+ for one of his new cues seems rather odd to me.
I always collected cues from various makers as much for playability as for appearance. I believe that playability involves using the entire cue from someone who built an entire cue with their own hands. Wood selection, and construction etc. had a lot to do with the appreciation of a cue makers skills- for me anyhow, and the shaft was an integral part of that equation.
I. personally, don't see any sense in spending $3,000+ on a traditional cue, throwing away the shaft, to add a CF shaft - why would I need a Hercek, Tascarella, Scruggs, Black, SW, etc. to do that? I still play with maple just bc I want to experience everything that a cue maker intended when they built that particular cue.
All that being said, I have owned many higher end customs in my lifetime- a few that I have never owned that I may want to try in the future are Tascarella, Hercek, Barry Szamboti - you can bet that I would use the maple shafts that come with these cues. I can afford any one of these cues, or all three if I so desired, I just never pulled the plug on buying one yet- some things are best left for dreaming and future expectations
Most players seem to be shunning the traditional maple shafts anyhow, so not using the complete cue from a maker that charges $3,000+ for one of his new cues seems rather odd to me.
I always collected cues from various makers as much for playability as for appearance. I believe that playability involves using the entire cue from someone who built an entire cue with their own hands. Wood selection, and construction etc. had a lot to do with the appreciation of a cue makers skills- for me anyhow, and the shaft was an integral part of that equation.
I. personally, don't see any sense in spending $3,000+ on a traditional cue, throwing away the shaft, to add a CF shaft - why would I need a Hercek, Tascarella, Scruggs, Black, SW, etc. to do that? I still play with maple just bc I want to experience everything that a cue maker intended when they built that particular cue.
All that being said, I have owned many higher end customs in my lifetime- a few that I have never owned that I may want to try in the future are Tascarella, Hercek, Barry Szamboti - you can bet that I would use the maple shafts that come with these cues. I can afford any one of these cues, or all three if I so desired, I just never pulled the plug on buying one yet- some things are best left for dreaming and future expectations
Ok. I'm nearly movie illiterate. I was thinking in terms of the wood being imbued with special properties like Powder.
I didn’t buy my cues to make a profit. I didn’t design some of my cues to please anyone
other than myself. I never intended to sell my cues but if I did, I expect to recover my cost.
Mike is right. Cues are not a good investment in general but high end cues should not suffer
the fate of most used cues, namely losing money on the sale. You should recover what you
paid if the cue is still in really good condition. And some cue makers will net you a small gain
of 10-20%. The main benefit is playing with a great cue and not losing money when you sell it.
Remember that the guiding principle of rarity, scarcity & availability determine a cue’s true value.
other than myself. I never intended to sell my cues but if I did, I expect to recover my cost.
Mike is right. Cues are not a good investment in general but high end cues should not suffer
the fate of most used cues, namely losing money on the sale. You should recover what you
paid if the cue is still in really good condition. And some cue makers will net you a small gain
of 10-20%. The main benefit is playing with a great cue and not losing money when you sell it.
Remember that the guiding principle of rarity, scarcity & availability determine a cue’s true value.