Most expensive cue?

A local guy brought 2 very fancy Buskas to Felt one day and i hit balls with both. CuesBlues (Ted) said they were worth $50,000 combined. Needless to say I was very careful with them.
And they hit fantastic.
 
McDermott’s Intimidator – The $150,000 pool cue
Andrea Divirgilio / September 26, 2007

intimidator cue

McDermott claims to have the world’s most expensive pool cue dubbed Intimidator. Although, it’s not as flashy as the world’s most expensive fishing lure but still, it’s an extravagant gift and a collector’s item at a whopping $150,000. The cue is a three dimensional piece of collectible art that features four bold bladed wings that are inlaid with 24K Gold, Deep Relief, and French Grey Scroll engraving. The butt cap houses an amazing round-shaped stone, a Genuine Italian Obsidian Gemstone Sphere. There are over 210 separate inlays, including 112 hand polished precious metal inlays on the black ultra-violet handle. The work was started with 82 pounds of pure stainless steel and the upshot was a beautiful, intimidating 9.5 pound masterpiece. It would be a totally astounding experience to rip the pool table with the Intimidator cue but asks for a hell lot of money.;)
 
I play with a Gus Szamboti, and usually let anyone play with it that comes up and asks.

Its just a piece of wood.

The forests are full of them.

Ken
 
I've played with 4 Gus Szamboti cues...One owned by a member of my pool team and the other 2 by the old owner of the pool room where I play and Mike Mitchell, who plays in our league..wasn't impressed...But that's just me..
I owned an older Tad M-2, the BEM model and I loved the hit...Stupid me got rid of it...Really played nice...Bought another new one and didn't like the hit as much as the old one...
 
ivory Gina

That all ivory Gina is in Iowa .Its owner showed it and turned down 300,000.He has a pair of Paradise that might be worth more.:rolleyes:
 
Ken_4fun said:
I play with a Gus Szamboti, and usually let anyone play with it that comes up and asks.

Its just a piece of wood.

The forests are full of them.

Ken
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And a nice Gus it is and plays very well (the Hoppe one of course). I have played with a few Gus Szamboti's, several Tascarella's and have held a 30K Balabushka (asking price).

For me, my ownership and price threshold right now is in the 1500 range. i can still play with something in that range and not worry about it too much and actually play. A good friend occasionally lets me use his Tascarella and I find i hold the cue too tight as I am afraid it will run away. Maybe if I used it more I would get used to it more and would not be worried about it.
 
Jimmy_Betmore said:
There was an older guy who used to hang out and play at Airway Billiards up in Dayton who got the cue bug pretty bad. He kept coming in with more and more expensive cues. Finally, one day he shows up with a really nice Szamboti (points, veneers, maple windows in the butt) and insisted that I play around with it for awhile. I felt like I was walking around the table with someone's newborn baby in my hands. Don't get me wrong, I play with a pretty nice Nitti, but just knowing that I was toting around $5k+ worth of somebody else's cue was a little strange.

For the record, the cue played great. Nothing really special, though.

As far as the most expensive cue I've ever seen, it would have to be one of the cues I saw at the cue show at Airway or, possibly at the Derby back when it was at the Executive West. There were so many unbelievable cues. My favorite was probably the Hercek with the joker engraved in the ivory handle, though.
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That sounds like Harry,he used to play with cheap cues until he saw a few of my Blacks and PFD's and South West,then he got into collecting nice cues and far surpassed me.
 
I once had the opportunity to hit some balls with Travis Trotter's cue. I beat his dad 2 games in 8-ball.

I play like Allison and Shane's love child when stroking that beast.

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Scott Lee said:
Lesh...I hate to burst your bubble, but Jack NEVER owned a Balabushka (I did). That cue you're talking about was an old Adams, and it did not have any jewels inlaid in it. I've played with that cue at least 100x. He told everyone who would listen it was a Balabushka...it clearly was not. When I bought Jack's tour in 1994, I had the choice of buying either the Adams "Balabushka", or his personal Palmer with his name inscribed on the foil. It was a no brainer...I chose the Palmer. Sold it years later to Joe Salazar for twice what I paid Jack for it. Jack still has the old Adams cue. :grin:

I don't know if it is the same one but Joe has an old Palmer that I have hit quite a few games with and he has offered to sell it to me on numerous occasions.
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Bavafongoul said:
That weight difference is huge.....and don't give me that "better balanced" argument.....2 ounces is
a big change in cue weight .....and then add the fact my other cues have ivory joints versus a steel
cue joint.......that's why I don't play with my pretty custom Runde Schon any longer and that's why
I would not want to own a Original George Balabushka cue......I was dead serious when I wrote that.
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Matt B. - see my post above. Steel joint, yes, 20 oz and forward weighted, not necessarily. Don't assume the other 1199 Bushka's hanging up in display cabinets around the world are all 20 oz. just because the one you played with was 20 oz.... just FYI!
 
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