Mike Erwin Cue Value

[maha]

thanks now i know who he is. still any meucci cue or type dont command much from collectors compared to the big names. but this cue looks very nice.
during the hot meucci years i dont remember any pool players touting them.

 

[vintagecollectibles831]

thanks now i know who he is. still any meucci cue or type dont command much from collectors compared to the big names. but this cue looks very nice.
during the hot meucci years i dont remember any pool players touting them.

Many of the high end Meucci Originals models sell for Thousands of dollars on the collectors market. Some of them are so freaking valuable, that nobody knows what they sold for.

 

[maha]

cant believe that but buyers are buyers for all sorts of things.

 

[vintagecollectibles831]

cant believe that but buyers are buyers for all sorts of things.

Because they are super cool, and super rare. There is also the Nastalgia aspect.


There is one named the Johnny Cash "The Baron" cue, which he used on that movie, that had real gold in it, I believe. I have no idea what that cue would be worth, but probably a lot.

 

[Chopdoc]

I have seen screw on, where the screw is part of the rubber, and I have seen screw on, where an actual metal screw, screws into the butt end, on order to hold the bumper on place. And, some cues have no screw at all, and just fit super tight into the slot that they were made for.

I never really cared, just so it was all done correctly, and looks nice and even..

I have a thing for bumpers. Made a great study of them years ago.

 

[WildWing]

I thought you had a problem with it being screwed on.

Anyway, it looks off center, that messed with me. And it does not look recessed, or minimally so. To me, that same bumper would look great if centered and well recessed.

I doubt that the bumper is off-center. Pictures are very misleading when taken at a slight angle. When done so, inlays often look off-center, and so can a bumper or weight bolt. Agree with you on more recessing, though that can be done with just sanding some off the bottom of the bumper as well.

I have a nice Jerry Rauenzahn full splice cue that has a threaded bumper, no screw hole in the bottom. It's very clean looking. One of these days I need to do a family shot 2 on cues.

 

[Chopdoc]

I doubt that the bumper is off-center. Pictures are very misleading when taken at a slight angle

Of course. But that's what it looks like. So...

 

[WildWing]

Of course. But that's what it looks like. So...

Assuming the same Clausing lathe was used to both turn down the buttsleeve and buttcap, as well as drill out the bottom for the bumper, I think it would be pretty difficult to make a bumper or weight bolt off-center. I recall a very nice Joss West Hoppe style cue years ago pictured, where guys were stressing about the weight bolt looking off-center. Will Prout and I chimed in and said, the bolt is perfectly centered.

The key is parallax. I know you know what that means. Not the Warren Beatty movie, but the anomaly. Come to think of it, I need to look up that movie.

 

[Chopdoc]

Assuming the same Clausing lathe was used to both turn down the buttsleeve and buttcap, as well as drill out the bottom for the bumper, I think it would be pretty difficult to make a bumper or weight bolt off-center. I recall a very nice Joss West Hoppe style cue years ago pictured, where guys were stressing about the weight bolt looking off-center. Will Prout and I chimed in and said, the bolt is perfectly centered.

The key is parallax. I know you know what that means. Not the Warren Beatty movie, but the anomaly. Come to think of it, I need to look up that movie.

Yes. I understand. Yet, that's what I saw. No assumptions.

I have cue pictures of my own that distort dimensions, color, and more of my own cues.

No big deal.

I just commented on what I saw.

 

[rjb1168]

Well, Mike Erwin was the head foreman (head cue maker) at Meucci for a very long time. Just not sure what years he was there. Probably during the golden age of Meucci Originals though, as his son is like the leading expert that all collectors send their cues to for Meucci Originals restoration.

18 years at Meucci, when they moved he did not want to move so they parted ways. That's how I understood it.