I just wanted to share with my AZ pals that Stephen Janes is building me a copy of Mike Sigel's old JOSS cue from the 80s. The first photo (with all of the shafts) was the very cue that Sigel used for years and played some amazing pool with. This photo was from John Wright I believe. I have had it saved for some time. Sigel did use a JOSS after that as well, but this was the one I think of when I think of Sigel. I showed this photo to Stephen and the very next day he photo-shopped the design below for me. He's going to use the white with brown spec wrap like Mike, and remove the "Legacy" from the buttcap. This was always my favorite cue so I'm pretty excited about it! It should be done in November, but I'm not especially rushed. I waited like 17 years for a Southwest...I have patience.
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Great bit of history there, with one of the cues of possibly the best all-around pool player ever.
The 80s was an interesting decade for cues used by Mike Sigel. An early one was a Joss, early 80s, not the one pictured. It had ivory bars, not points, but bars, with veneers around them in the forearm. The buttsleeve was more the window design of early Joss, and had what looked like ivory inlays resembling shark teeth, back to back. I saw that one in person with an exhibition between Mike and Jim Rempe in Baltimore, 1984.
Later that year, October, Mike was representing Meucci, and played with the historic Captain Hook Meucci, and I assume he used it for at least a few years, as long as it was selling.
I think it was late 80s when Mike went back to Joss, and used the one in your pictures. I believe he used it in 1989, when the U.S. Open Straight pool was played in Chicago. Believe Nick Varner was using the same, or similar cue. Mike won the 1992 U.S. Open in New York, with that same cue. I wonder where that cue is today. Anyway, nice to see threads like this.
