HOW much is ur cue ?

[8-Baller]

It's interesting to see how differently people attach value to their cues. Some value playability over anything else. Others attach a significant value to pride of ownership and collectability. It's all very personal and there is no wrong answer.

To me, playability is very important. But for me, as long as I can afford it, I place a lot of value on build quality and aesthetics as well. When I hold a cue in hand that is so close to perfection in terms of build and attention to detail, I can actually sense the focus of the cuemaker when he was lining up the intricate inlays ....I can smell his sweat as he turned the forearm on his machines. You feel the eccentric love that the cuemaker has poured into the cue. Anything less than perfection is discarded.

That is why I own a couple of Prewitt cues. It's all about precision and perfection with this guy. When I shoot with a Prewitt, I get a bigger rush of eurphoria than, say, the Predator BLAK that I also own. It all adds to the enjoyment of this sport.

Prewitt #1 = $4.2K
Prewitt #2 = $2.3K
Carmeli = $1.5K
Carmeli J/B = $0.6
Predator BLAK = $1.0K

Donald

 

[Fuji-whopper]

I agree. If it were not for sponsors, I'd be playing off the wall. Instead, I play witha a gorgeous $5k Ariel Carmeli by my design and built to my specs :thumbup:

Viva la cue sponsor!!!

Man I don't want to hear it, he owes me a cue from before I left Predator. If you see him please thump him in the head for me, he never clears his messages on his phone and of course doesn't answer when I pick up.

After all of these years you figure he would make sure I have one of his cues, I have sold MANY of them for him and don't even have one for myself right now. The kicker is that I PAID him for the cue that he owes me, which is why it is owed in the first place.

$5k? Got pictures of it?

 

[Fuji-whopper]

Carmeli J/B = $0.6

Donald

Please tell me where I can get a cue for less than a dollar, I will take TWO!!

 

[j2pac]

It's interesting to see how differently people attach value to their cues. Some value playability over anything else. Others attach a significant value to pride of ownership and collectability. It's all very personal and there is no wrong answer.

To me, playability is very important. But for me, as long as I can afford it, I place a lot of value on build quality and aesthetics as well. When I hold a cue in hand that is so close to perfection in terms of build and attention to detail, I can actually sense the focus of the cuemaker when he was lining up the intricate inlays ....I can smell his sweat as he turned the forearm on his machines. You feel the eccentric love that the cuemaker has poured into the cue. Anything less than perfection is discarded.

That is why I own a couple of Prewitt cues. It's all about precision and perfection with this guy. When I shoot with a Prewitt, I get a bigger rush of eurphoria than, say, the Predator BLAK that I also own. It all adds to the enjoyment of this sport.

Prewitt #1 = $4.2K
Prewitt #2 = $2.3K
Carmeli = $1.5K
Carmeli J/B = $0.6
Predator BLAK = $1.0K

Donald

I don't know about turning my cuemaker's forearm, and I definitely don't want to smell his sweat...LOL, but anything that hit's the way you want to, is worth whatever your willing to pay for it. I'm also an Ed Prewitt fan. Great sticks!

 

[KoolKat9Lives]

I bought this Rich or Mali perhaps Brunswick blank conversion or whatever the heck this wanna be Palmer cue is for $135 new in 1974. I just sent an inquiry to Paul Rubino at Billiard Encyclopedia, as suggested by Voodoo Daddy.
My J/B is a Poison VX29, recently nabbed new for $159.

 

[Koopa]

Playing cue on top: Paid $400
B/J : $250

 

[RRfireblade]

Traded a few weeks (over a few months) worth of development, design and machine work for my current player and J/B combo so probably :

$4k-$5k for the pair invested.

 

[AdChalk]

I have several cues BUT

the one I play with the most is a SouthEast cue - Cost $850 or so... Weight 17.5 ......... I also have a Meucci Cameo, Meucci SE 007, and an older SouthEast I've played with for about 10 years.

 

[stick8]

cue

Well i have a marching set break-shooting cue, made my new comer in cue making but already in the blue book, on the butt plate is 0002, so mine are priceless !!!!THANKS STEVE LOMAX !!!!:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

 

[Fatboy]

$5k? Got pictures of it?

I have hit balls on more than one occasion with Cory's cue and its awesome, just great, it feels similar to the cue I use. Carmeli builds nice cues and Cory did the shaft up right, he hanged the taper and wood a few months back and it improved the feel alot. when you play with it you can tell there was time spent in making it right.

 

[LoGiC]

My cue is priceless, since the look on peoples faces when they see it is usually a kodak moment! :wink:

 

[tjlmbklr]

$30 for 3 spots in a AZ raffle. To win a Keith Kue. $194 for the 314 I have for it. So $244.

 

[Beware_of_Dawg]

got 3 lucasi cues. $200-$400 range, 1 with a Zshaft, 1 with a OB1, 1 with a Predator BK2

 

[deep]

11ty billion $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ :yikes:
LOL, based on what I've seen sell recently probably 2.5Kish, maybe a little more.

 

[mullyman]

1989 Paul Mottey 1400 used.
2006 Paul Mottey 2200 ordered direct
1983 Tim Scruggs 950 used
2004 SouthWest 2800-3200 but picked up in a trade
2007 James White 2000 ordered direct

 

[KMRUNOUT]

Very True! I cannot argue against your point, but instead, only express my own opinion.

To me, a cue was meant to be played with. I will say that the BB cues i have, play phenomenal. But i will never be able to "see" them as pieces of art.

They were built to play with, and play well they did.
The only reason they are in the closet is the value that OTHER people put on them. In fact, there have been several occasions where someone found out what type of cue i had, and then proceeded to annoy the daylights out of me with questions, and offers, or just flat out creepiness.
Like making a big cash offer, which i turned down, to the same guy "hanging" around after the fact watching me like a hawk, to him hanging in the parking lot with his friends for no particular reason, but when i go to leave, they are looking left and right, to see if anyone else is in the parking lot like i am gonna get jumped, and obviously taking note of what type of car i drive.
To later, the same guy showing up at other places i go, continuing to make offers each time, and annoying me once again.
It's even gotten to the point where someone waited in the parking lot, and tried to follow me home to see where i lived. Add to that, that i had one of them stolen in the past, but was able to recover it almost immediately as i knew who did it.

Now this stuff doesn't happen all the time, and i don't play pool that much anymore, but it is still quite annoying when they did happen.

Enter simple plain jane cue.

No more watching my back and being paranoid, and all the annoyingness goes away.

I will never be the type of person who buys a cue just to look at it or to take pride in the fact that i "have" one. That is reserved for someone else.
If it can't be played with, it might as well be a Native American totem pole in a museum cause if it doesn't pocket balls in the hole, it's not a cue in my eyes.

That isn't saying that cues should not be appreciated as art.

It's just saying that i don't see them that way.
To me, they either hit good, or hit bad, and because of that, are either worth the price, or not.
But having said that, to me, no cue's hit is worth $10K.

Wow...that is pretty creepy. However, I must ask...why don't you sell them or play with them? It sounds like you would appreciate the money a lot more. Also, if you feel they hit great, why not have that be your playing cue, and who cares if it gets dinged up or whatever. It is just hard to understand why you would say that you don't value them as works of art, and only keep them for the value other people place on them, yet don't sell them to make that value valuable to you.

KMRUNOUT

 

[Tiddler]

Cue Pricing

I paid $200 for my Szamboti new. I paid $200 plus a JW merry jane for my Balabushka second hand. I paid $1200 for an ebony nosed SW with 4 shafts new. I play with a Rauenzahn I paid $260 for on ebay and they shipped it in an It's George case. The most I've paid is $1500 for a used ivory inlaid Dennis Searing after nobody bid on ebay for it's $1600 buy it now price....

 

[cueandcushion]

Jacoby $2800
Jacoby $600
Jacoby $1300
Jacoby $0-gift
Jacoby $800
Billy Webb $600
Huebler $75
Viking $300
Scruggs $ 50
Scruggs $ 3500
Scruggs $350
Scruggs $ 200
Scruggs $0- gift
Olivier $1200
Drexler $1800
Helmstetter $600
Gulyassey-300
McDermott $350
Jim Buss $250

What we paid, right?

 

[Caromsoft]

One of the Dominiak $99 specials with an OB-1 I purchased used here for $128.

 

[SUPERSTAR]

Wow...that is pretty creepy. However, I must ask...why don't you sell them or play with them? It sounds like you would appreciate the money a lot more. Also, if you feel they hit great, why not have that be your playing cue, and who cares if it gets dinged up or whatever. It is just hard to understand why you would say that you don't value them as works of art, and only keep them for the value other people place on them, yet don't sell them to make that value valuable to you.

KMRUNOUT

I played with black boars for the better part of 14/15 years.
I picked them up at different times, LONG before the prices went ballistic.
They were played with every day.
I retired them because people wouldn't stop bothering me, not because i didn't want to play with them and risk dinging them. The prices just made people bother me more.

Could care less about the money they might generate.
I keep them for sentimental value. They serve as reminders TO ME, of a different life i used to have. Each telling me a different story.

But if i didn't already have them, and had the chance to own one and had to shell out the kind of money they are getting today, just so i could say i have one, i would look at it, smile, and go spend my money on something more worthwhile.