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Simple, and elegent.
That, sir, is an excellent cue.
Should be sold in roughly 3.2 minutes...give or take a smidge.
Absolutely great cue for sale by an absolutely great guy that is a top notch seller. Good luck with your sale my friend
4 Point Masterpiece
Colin,
Nice cue...
John sure makes em' nice :smile:
I have a similar cue, in Rosewood
Very solid player
Colin,
Nice cue...
John sure makes em' nice :smile:
I have a similar cue, in Rosewood
Very solid player
Showman
No Ivory ???? Don't think I have ever seen a Showman Player with no ivory in it......Nice Cue
Good Luck with the sale
Paul
No Ivory ???? Don't think I have ever seen a Showman Player with no ivory in it......Nice Cue
Good Luck with the sale
Paul
If there was ever a cue that deserved to be on page one...this would be it.
I'm shocked it hasn't found a new home yet, Colin. Bad market or not, THIS is the kind of cue that should move quickly.
My offer stands, sir....inclusive of the shipping and crackers costs incurred by me.
I'm shocked it hasn't found a new home yet, Colin. Bad market or not, THIS is the kind of cue that should move quickly.
My offer stands, sir....inclusive of the shipping and crackers costs incurred by me.
Just a helpful...somewhat soul crushing...extraordinarily-jealous-of-the-lucky-S.O.B-that-buys-this-most-excellent-and-classic-cue BUMP to the top.
I should apologize before I even start this responses so......I'm sorry for being ignorant and I am not trying to screw up your sale but........
What is so special about this fairly plain cue with 4 points and veneers that it commands an asking price over $4k.
Please explain this to me.
I have seen a lot of this lately with certain cues and it just makes no sense to me. And most of them are from relatively newer makers. I can understand if it was from one of the masters like Bill Stroud. I saw Josswest for sale here not long ago that had more work and it had a hard time selling for $1200. I have heard that John makes nice cues but $4K? Come on.....Really?
Whats the deal?
What is so special about this fairly plain cue with 4 points and veneers that it commands an asking price over $4k.
Please explain this to me.
I have seen a lot of this lately with certain cues and it just makes no sense to me. And most of them are from relatively newer makers. I can understand if it was from one of the masters like Bill Stroud. I saw Josswest for sale here not long ago that had more work and it had a hard time selling for $1200. I have heard that John makes nice cues but $4K? Come on.....Really?
Whats the deal?
Monster playing cue for sure! The price is super fair as well! Good luck with the sale c and c
The deal is the cue is worth what someone is willing to pay for it, and in this market anyone has the right to request any price they wish and the market will bear the value. I had a cue that I paid 450 for in October 2007 that brought 1300 in February of 2008. The marked will set the value at any given time.
As for this particular cue, you probably have to hold the cue to really get the full appreciation, I have been fortunate enough to own two of John Showman's cues and they were both truly works of art and two of the best playing cues I ever had the pleasure of using, and I have owned about 200 cues over the past ten years all made by top notch cue makers. Just to name a few, Searing, Tascarella, Schick, SW, Prewitt, Gina, Tad, Hunter (Bobby and Wes), Sugartree, Gilbert, Stroud, Tucker and many, many, many more.
Just my two cents worth on the subject.
Good luck with the sale.
-don
Hiya sir,
I don't necessarily think an apology up front is necessary...you ask a fair and valid question.
I don't have near enough dough for the cue...so I don't have a dog in this hunt. My opinion is exactly that...just an opinion. That said, let me express it:
Mr. Stroud, no doubt about it, makes a fantastic cue. The same can be said for Mr. Showman. The distinct difference between the two is supply vs. demand. Mr. Showman is a relatively new cuemaker as compared to Mr. Stroud. There are FAR more JossWest cues on the open market (or in existence, for that matter). You could MUCH more easily obtain a JW cue from a number of different dealers/locations. Add into that a different style between the two gentlemen, cue sale trends in this increasingly tough market...and the fact that Mr. Showman is on a fairly short "Hot" list of cuemakers at the moment. All of those reasons bring the pricetag of a Showman up to where they are.
Is a Showman a BETTER cue than a JW? That's up for the individual to decide. As today's trends go, though...More folks appear to want a Showman cue. I'd love to have one, personally. Then again, I wouldn't hate owning a JW cue, either!
Kind regards,
Mark
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Szamboti,Balabushka's sold for a few hundred when they were sold many years ago and now command anywhere from 5000 up to 50000 or more. Top 5 cueaker cues are hard to get,when you get into high end cues there's more to them then just there hit. Showman and Searing cues have 5-10 year waits and Ron Haley is 10 + years out so this is some of the reason these cues cost alot. JW cues are so common that there market price has been driven down like some other very good cuemakers....when production is 100 plus cues a years it effects there price after 20 years of cuemaking. What makes a baseball card worth 1000 bucks?....there's only a few made and cues can be just the same.
WTF cue market
This has been troubling me as well. Theres no doubt in my mind that Showman makes a great cue but the guy is still alive. I mean what does a cue like that go for new, no more than 2k. I think these values were started in this place. Theres still a whole lot of people out there who have never heard of John Showman. Sorry for chiming in, I mean no harm. Good luck with your sale.
This has been troubling me as well. Theres no doubt in my mind that Showman makes a great cue but the guy is still alive. I mean what does a cue like that go for new, no more than 2k. I think these values were started in this place. Theres still a whole lot of people out there who have never heard of John Showman. Sorry for chiming in, I mean no harm. Good luck with your sale.
