Halloween is in the air, the new Halloween movie is out, so this is the perfect time to show off one of the most documented cues ever made. "The Witch Cue" by Randy Mobley has more provenance than any cue I have ever encountered. Below are excerpts from one of the many articles written about this cue.
It is now for sale and serious inquiries are welcome.
"Are you ready for this? -- a customized, illuminated, Halloween-themed pool cue laden with diamonds, sapphires, rubies and emeralds, along with exotic woods, rare amber and ivory?
You'd no doubt say what the person who demonstrated this cue stick to me said: "Nobody's ever made one that does what this does." The collaborators on this arguably first-ever cue wish to remain quietly anonymous at this time, for a variety of reasons, including the cue's potentially enormous value to collectors.
The cue was made in honor of a New Orleans woman whose favorite holiday is Halloween. From a hand-stitched bag -- with three embroidered pumpkins and a drawstring featuring a skull -- emerges a handcrafted Italian leather case carrying two shafts of birds-eye maple and the fascinating butt.
The leather case, by Dan Whitten, a name known in the industry, is perfect for the well-dressed cue. The jack o' lanterns are inlaid in black African ebony below the wrap, on top of amber that is 100,000-plus years old. Amber is petrified or fossilized tree sap and this variety comes from the Baltic Sea. That explanation prompted an onlooker to say, "This stick has been in more places than I have."
There are three long ebony wood points that appear at first to be of traditional design, but a closer inspection reveals that they are tall witch hats on top of witches' faces glaring through ruby, sapphire and emerald eyes.
A subtle maneuver in the right light and the jack o' lanterns, witches' eyes and all the diamonds in the "sky" of the cue light up, glowing from within. The method of powering the light from within was formulated by a Tulane University instrumentation engineer, now deceased."
It is now for sale and serious inquiries are welcome.
"Are you ready for this? -- a customized, illuminated, Halloween-themed pool cue laden with diamonds, sapphires, rubies and emeralds, along with exotic woods, rare amber and ivory?
You'd no doubt say what the person who demonstrated this cue stick to me said: "Nobody's ever made one that does what this does." The collaborators on this arguably first-ever cue wish to remain quietly anonymous at this time, for a variety of reasons, including the cue's potentially enormous value to collectors.
The cue was made in honor of a New Orleans woman whose favorite holiday is Halloween. From a hand-stitched bag -- with three embroidered pumpkins and a drawstring featuring a skull -- emerges a handcrafted Italian leather case carrying two shafts of birds-eye maple and the fascinating butt.
The leather case, by Dan Whitten, a name known in the industry, is perfect for the well-dressed cue. The jack o' lanterns are inlaid in black African ebony below the wrap, on top of amber that is 100,000-plus years old. Amber is petrified or fossilized tree sap and this variety comes from the Baltic Sea. That explanation prompted an onlooker to say, "This stick has been in more places than I have."
There are three long ebony wood points that appear at first to be of traditional design, but a closer inspection reveals that they are tall witch hats on top of witches' faces glaring through ruby, sapphire and emerald eyes.
A subtle maneuver in the right light and the jack o' lanterns, witches' eyes and all the diamonds in the "sky" of the cue light up, glowing from within. The method of powering the light from within was formulated by a Tulane University instrumentation engineer, now deceased."
