What Do You Pay in Your Area for Cue Work?

Fast Lenny

Fast Lenny

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I am having a tip done on my cue, the last time I got it done was a year ago so getting a year out of a tip and playing 3-4 times a week is pretty good so its not big deal paying $40 to have it replaced with a Kamui Black. When I first started playing in a poolroom about 6 years back I could remember Moori tips being about $25 or so. I am curious what prices are in your area for tips and other work like wrap replacement, ferrule, and shaft work. :)
 
I am just shocked you got a year out of a Kamui black. They charge about $35 around where I am staying in the Detroit area.
 
Montana Mike said:
I am just shocked you got a year out of a Kamui black. They charge about $35 around where I am staying in the Detroit area.
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Yes Mike, a full year, got it put on right before Derby and have been playing with it I would say 10 hours a week for the past year. I stay away from it with scuffers, cue cubes and stuff like that, the medium is more on the hard side so it holds shape well and does not mushroom, if it gets glazed I just use a tip pik on it. I would say I got about 500 hours out of the tip, now that is value! :thumbup:
 
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$35 to $40 seems to be the going price for Moori and kamui tips. Hobby's can be expensive or not depending on what your what you goals are.
 
Depending on the tip $20 to $40. I supply my own tips so depending on who does the work usually $15.
 
I'm like stumpie, I supply my own tips. I buy the milk dud tips from forum member pooldawg8 for $3.00 each and I got a best friend that owns a HT lathe so he does everything from tips, to wraps, to shaft re-tapers for me for free. Last time I went to his house he put on 5 tips for me and turned down 5 shafts and fed me dinner, didn't cost me a dime other than the cost of the tips from pooldawg8. I'm one of the lucky few that have a lathe at my disposal.
 
Fast Lenny said:
I am having a tip done on my cue, the last time I got it done was a year ago so getting a year out of a tip and playing 3-4 times a week is pretty good so its not big deal paying $40 to have it replaced with a Kamui Black. When I first started playing in a poolroom about 6 years back I could remember Moori tips being about $25 or so. I am curious what prices are in your area for tips and other work like wrap replacement, ferrule, and shaft work. :)
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I guess my prices are too low. I do Kamui tips for only $30 (Black or Brown), and my price for Moori has been at $25 for over ten years now.

One of our local good players stopped in for a Kamui tip last weekend and ended up telling me a story about how he and another good player were driving across town to a tournament a while back, and they stopped along the way at Shoot The Bull because the other guy wanted a quick Kamui put on. Well, he got his quick Kamui, alright. Pat (the repairman at Shoot The Bull) smacked him over the head to the tune of $65...another $15 over Pat's already ridiculously high price of $50!

Now I don't mind sharing this story, and even naming names here, since I've been told by more than one person that Shoot The Bull displays a copy on their countertop of an article I wrote about Kamui tips - replete with my picture on it - and uses it to sell their customers on Kamui tips.

Not only that; as it mentions in the article, I was turned onto the Kamui tips by Rodney Morris while he lived here in Phoenix, but Pat at Shoot The Bull tells customers he was the one who used to replace Rodney's tips!

I'm not sure what, if anything, I can do about this situation, but I'm more than happy to snitch off Pat and Shoot The Bull here. :grin:

Roger
 
Roger Long said:
I guess my prices are too low. I do Kamui tips for only $30 (Black or Brown), and my price for Moori has been at $25 for over ten years now.

Roger
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Don't believe all the other over-priced places, your price is spot on. ;)

*selfish post*
 
Roger Long said:
I guess my prices are too low. I do Kamui tips for only $30 (Black or Brown), and my price for Moori has been at $25 for over ten years now.

One of our local good players stopped in for a Kamui tip last weekend and ended up telling me a story about how he and another good player were driving across town to a tournament a while back, and they stopped along the way at Shoot The Bull because the other guy wanted a quick Kamui put on. Well, he got his quick Kamui, alright. Pat (the repairman at Shoot The Bull) smacked him over the head to the tune of $65...another $15 over Pat's already ridiculously high price of $50!

Now I don't mind sharing this story, and even naming names here, since I've been told by more than one person that Shoot The Bull displays a copy on their countertop of an article I wrote about Kamui tips - replete with my picture on it - and uses it to sell their customers on Kamui tips.

Not only that; as it mentions in the article, I was turned onto the Kamui tips by Rodney Morris while he lived here in Phoenix, but Pat at Shoot The Bull tells customers he was the one who used to replace Rodney's tips!

I'm not sure what, if anything, I can do about this situation, but I'm more than happy to snitch off Pat and Shoot The Bull here. :grin:

Roger
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Good on you. $65 is ludicrous.
 
Around here, a Kamui tip installed is about $40. Shaft cleaning is about $15.
 
the going rate around here is about $35-$45 for a kamui black depending on who you go to. when i used le pro it was alot cheaper. after i tried the kamui tips i like them much better and i'll stick with them for now. depending on how often i play they are lasting between 8 months and a year (@ about 10 to 18 or so hours a week) re wrap is about $45 for linen, that's all i use so i can't say about leather / skins, or stacked leather but i believe that starts in the $100 area. i have never had any other work really done so i can't say.
 
seems that moori and kamui are about the same price everywhere... you can get a tiger emerald and shaft reconditioned here in florida from kenny murrell for around $25- $30. the local folks and myself seem to think its currently the best bang for your buck.
 
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