Value of Cues for Current Cuemakers

Anthony_Beeler

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Just out of curiousity.........and if all of the designs were equal.........how would you rate the top ten cuemakers in order? #1. being the easiest to sell for the highest amount. #2 being 2nd and so on. I guess what I am looking for is which cues have the highest values (not necessarily the best playing). I am only interested in your opinion in current cuemakers not those of the past.

Thanks!
Anthony
 
Anthony_Beeler said:
Just out of curiousity.........and if all of the designs were equal.........how would you rate the top ten cuemakers in order? #1. being the easiest to sell for the highest amount. #2 being 2nd and so on. I guess what I am looking for is which cues have the highest values (not necessarily the best playing). I am only interested in your opinion in current cuemakers not those of the past.

Thanks!
Anthony


Here are some of my thoughts in no particular order:

Barry Szamboti
Joss West
Southwest
Paul Mottey
Cognoscenti
Bill McDaniel
Tim Scruggs
Leonard Bludworth
Schon
Mike Sigel
Jerry Oliver
Black Boar
Judd Fuller
Bob Runde
Hagan Cues
Bill Schick
Thomas Wayne
Mike Bender
Artistic Engineering
Phillippi
 
everything being equal?

1...gina and kershenbrock
3...tad
4...tascarella
5...joss west
6...schick
7...szamboti
8...black
9...
10...

i don't know where tascarella and szamboti goes, but allz i know is that they'r e expensive. all the cuemakers i listed have longevity. tad, schick, and kershenbrock don't make many. stroud will be cutting back this year(probably even stopping). tad makes only the high end ivory cues,,,,,his son makes the rest.
 
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current cue makers, my 10 in no particular order:

1. Ginacue
2. Tad
3. Bender
4. Cognoscenti
5. Szamboti
6. Southwest
7. Kersenbrock
8. Tascarella
9. Schick
10. Mottey
 
Anthony_Beeler said:
Just out of curiousity.........and if all of the designs were equal.........how would you rate the top ten cuemakers in order? #1. being the easiest to sell for the highest amount. #2 being 2nd and so on. I guess what I am looking for is which cues have the highest values (not necessarily the best playing). I am only interested in your opinion in current cuemakers not those of the past.

Thanks!
Anthony

Nobody's mentioned Joel Hercek. That's unreal.

Chris
 
Anthony_Beeler said:
Just out of curiousity.........and if all of the designs were equal.........how would you rate the top ten cuemakers in order? #1. being the easiest to sell for the highest amount. #2 being 2nd and so on. I guess what I am looking for is which cues have the highest values (not necessarily the best playing). I am only interested in your opinion in current cuemakers not those of the past.

Thanks!
Anthony

Here's mine:

# 1 B. Szamboti
#2 Joel Hercek
#3 Tascarella
#4 Kersenbrock
#5 Black Boar
#6 Gina
#7 Tad
#8 Bender
#9 Stroud
#10 Schick


The top 5 or 6 put out so few cues, their values are very high and cues are very difficult to find. I believe all of these makers command more for comparable cues than Southwest.

Chris
 
Anthony_Beeler said:
Just out of curiousity.........and if all of the designs were equal.........how would you rate the top ten cuemakers in order? #1. being the easiest to sell for the highest amount. #2 being 2nd and so on. I guess what I am looking for is which cues have the highest values (not necessarily the best playing). I am only interested in your opinion in current cuemakers not those of the past.

Thanks!
Anthony
gina
tascarella
bill schick
tad
josswest
black boar
southwest
richard black
tim scruggs
meucci (at a bar on leage night :D )
 
how can you mention tascarella when it is a very serious rumor he doesnt make his own blanks......i would really think you would list guys that trully build there own cues with exception to screw,bumpers, and tips.......just my thought......juston
 
Any brand of cues which sell for half the retail price on Fleabay should not qualify.
My dos centavos.
I like Tate's list but SW has to be in there.
Art Cantando too maybe.
Jeesh, why not just make it 12 then? LOL
 
cuewhiz189 said:
how can you mention tascarella when it is a very serious rumor he doesnt make his own blanks......i would really think you would list guys that trully build there own cues with exception to screw,bumpers, and tips.......just my thought......juston

neither did balabushka. when someone says to me "making his blanks", i take blanks to mean forearm/spliced point blanks. is this what you mean, or is it something else?

anyway, the poster 's question concerned VALUE.
 
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Based on what I've seen the market pay (regardless of how the cue is constructed):

#1 Tascarella
#2 B. Szamboti
#3 Gina
#4 Tad
#5 Joel Hercek
#6 Black Boar
#7 Mottey
#8 JossWest
#9 Schick
#10 Bender

A knowledgable buyer would possibly rate Kersenbrock above some on the list. But, I think some people with the money to buy cues are ignorant of him and his work. Also, I would try to put SW on the list, but it's hard to compare SW to the others since they have done so few cues with inlays. How much would someone pay with for a SW with a Black Boar / Mottey level of inlays? Get out the wheel barrow! :D

Scott
 
Well the problem here is that alot of these cuemakers can't build or don't build equal cues. So that just chucks the whole scenario out the window.

But the easiest cue by far to sell and get good money for.. South West hands down, its the number one page loaded off my site, and I have those cues the less amount of time. Tascarella is number two... Mottey being three

Just about every other cue I see on the lists, until you sit on one for a year or two, asking BELOW current retail value, you have no idea what the hell you are talking about. (collectables aside)

But lets kick this back a few years.. if you had asked this question 3-4 years ago, I would have put Lambros in there, at that time we never had one more than a week. In other words, depending upon the "buzz", the list could change at any time. Right now the buzz is Richard Harris, try getting a Blue Grass cue. Searing was the big buzz last year, and still very hard to get. But one year you might get 2500 dollars for a cue the next year you can't get 1800 for the same cue.

Joe (---you find out the real value of an item when you try to sell it..

ps: Pete builds his own blanks (we have seen them) and there is a certain person who keeps facilitating this rumor, he might get bi*ch slapped at VF... :)
 
We all have different levels of exposure, but from what little I know here is my list.

Schick
JW
Ginacue
Szamboti
Hercek
PFD
Blackboar
Tad
Kerschenbrock sp?
Mottey
Wayne
Black
Original SW
Judd

Yeah, I know, that is more than 10 but who cares?

Of course I probably missed a few that belong in that mix but there are many fine cuemakers and one day I would like to have one of each. It will probably never happen but it never hurts to dream.. ;)
 
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Ginacue
Barry Szamboti
TAD
Bill Schick
Joel Hercek
Cognoscenti
Tascarella
Paul Mottey
Black Boar
Josswest
Mike Bender
DPK
Southwest
Bert Schrager
PFD
Tim Scruggs
Skip Weston

I can't count so if that's more than 10 sorry but 10 just won't work with the amount of high valued cuemakers out there.
 
Oops

Dang it! I knew I was forgetting one (at least). In Joe 's(classicdues) good points above he helped me remember. I have to add Searing to the list, probably in the middle. Never having hit with one, I don't understand the premium paid for them, because they are generally not very fancy. But, they don't seem to last long and fetch a "good" price.

Joe, I wish I had the resources to take some of your inventory off of your hands!! ;)
 
I'm just curious. What is everyone's opinion on the work of Bob Runde? Personally I love his custom work, and I think his designs have a classic feel, yet remain original and beautifully executed. I personally wonder why his work never reached the popularity of others mentioned on the list, as I think it is equal in terms of workmanship, materials used, and quality. Any thoughts?

Thanks.
 
Matt_24 said:
I'm just curious. What is everyone's opinion on the work of Bob Runde? Personally I love his custom work, and I think his designs have a classic feel, yet remain original and beautifully executed. I personally wonder why his work never reached the popularity of others mentioned on the list, as I think it is equal in terms of workmanship, materials used, and quality. Any thoughts?

Thanks.

Runde is just fantastic. His current cues are excellent.

I collect his old Schons, with spliced points, and I would put those cues up against anything else built then or today. The points are perfect, the cues are very solid and extremely playable.

These days he builds what he wants and sells them for a reasonable price. The values are relatively middling because he chooses them to be. I respect him a lot.

Chris
 
I will add only one to an already well compiled list:
Kerry Zeiler

I have never seen his cues sold for less than was paid for them, used or not.

~DC
 
crawdaddio said:
I will add only one to an already well compiled list:
Kerry Zeiler

I have never seen his cues sold for less than was paid for them, used or not.

~DC
Not even stolen ones??? J/k Dave. :D
Some cues' prices appreciate.
Some cues get discounted by the makers to everyone leaving the dealers ticked-off.
 
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