What I am wondering is, I have a plamer 1 st catalog model 6 with the titlist points, does not seem like anybody wants to give more than $800 or so, do you think it if I had a cue maker take the butt sleeve off and do a different joint and butt sleeve the value would be more? Maybe have another shaft made for it? Just a thought and also, does anybody know if these are full splice? have not had the wrap off. Nate
Question about a Palmer titlist conversion
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If you cut the buttsleeve off of a Model 6, I'll drive down there and smack you in the face.....NateSchoepf said:
Seriously, how much do you think it would cost you to have all of that work done and get more? Who's to say that a cuemaker would even touch the blank? I'd like you to show me a cuemaker (other than Wheat or Varney) that would possibly desecrate such history....
FYI - You'd be lucky to ever get a Palmer model 6 (or D) sold for anything in excess of $1k unless it was mint, and your's is not.
-Ross
should've never passed on a NICE model D for $500.....
mine would be mint if it got a refinish, also, from what i heard the butt sleeve would come off if you unscrewed it? I dont know that much about it so I dont know the work involved, and that is why I posted it here, as far as the history is concerned I thought about it and from the offers I get and reasons I get for the low value of the cue I would say that most think these cues are a dime a dozen, yet I have never seen another model 6 for sale in over 2 years? Explain to me why it will never be worth more than 1k but it has all this history? seems like it would be worth more if it were that important?
LOL, no, I have learned a lot, but seriously, I like your passion and input, I think I could never go forward with the idea but why is it that the cue does not get the value it deserves?
Take the $700-$800 and go. You're not doing to hit a home run with a plainish Palmer in this depressed cue market. They made a lot of those cues...they were a production cue shop. Yes, it should be full spliced with the same piece of rosewood that you see in the points running back underneath the wrap unless 1. they had to put a handle in it to keep everything straight during the production process or 2. someone did that down the line to correct a warp problem. You would not be enhancing its value over the potential sale you would be losing compared to what you would have to pay to have the kind of work done that you are talking about. Most top cuemakers whose cues are selling well in today's market probably won't touch that kind of "repair work" anyway. My advice....don't go there. :smile:
NateSchoepf said:
I think what you are talking about in your description is pretty good money for it. Seriously, Palmer made hundreds to thousands of cues per year. Only the bigger 'line cues' and customs in wonderful condition are going to sell for big money.
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ok, thanks, it was just something I was thinking about.
Ross is right and unfortunately it's a damn shame. Palmer cues were very good but never got the respect they deserved.
1pRoscoe said:
I know, it's not to often someone agrees with you, Don't take it personal. :thumbup: :happy-birthday: :bash:
dave sutton
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people think bc its a palmer its gonna bring thousands. truth is like sean said only certin models and customs brink high dollar.
many are mistaken about the value of these cues
many are mistaken about the value of these cues
dave sutton
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im torn too. i like to see cues original but i like to see them preserved also.
i think its a case by case situation. often times ppl want a new shaft or different cue when just a tip change would help.
i think its a case by case situation. often times ppl want a new shaft or different cue when just a tip change would help.