World's Most Expensive Cue?
- Thread starter Mr. Bond
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I don't count anything that might disembowel you while you shoot a "cue". It cannot be used in any reasonable way to shoot pool, therefore it is not a cue. At best it's a overly decorated axe with a cuetip attached. I pity the fool that buys this nonsense, unless he is rich and bored, in which case I envy him
. Somehow I don't think whoever is stupid enough to buy this is rich..just a feeling is all.
It took great imagination to build this masterpiece of art. That being said There are at least 5 cues that have been 150k or more. Richard Black has built a few to include 1 particular cue he built for a collector in Potomac Maryland that is insured for a cool Million bucks.
http://www.blackcues.com/more_functional_art/fantasia.shtml
200k http://www.blackcues.com/gallery_cues/el_blanco_grande.shtml
150k http://www.blackcues.com/gallery_cues/parker2000.shtml
100k http://www.blackcues.com/gallery_cues/chantilly_gold.shtml
For the Ferrari owner who needs a matching cue for around 100k
http://www.blackcues.com/enzo2.shtml
Unbelievable that it really sold. It is actually a vintage cue, made in 1992. It's full name is:
"Intimidator Masterpiece Cue, The Most Expensive Pool Cue in the World"
http://www.mcdermottcue.com/mcdermott_intimidator.php
According to McDermott:
"Our designers started out with a 82-pound solid piece of stainless steel. After finely machining this piece for over a year, the result was an amazing 9½ pound masterpiece."
So to me it was just a showpiece, not a cue. I actually doubt they got their $150,000 for it - I'd say an offer that covered their costs would have been acceptable to the company, as long as the actual price was kept secret as a condition of the sale. As long as they can keep the photos up on their website any cash received is just icing on the cake.
I will be curious to see how it is described in their 'discontinued cues' area in the future...
As for me and The Intimidator, I need two shafts, and I don't care for the wrapless style.
Wonder if their I-1,2,3 shafts will no longer be Intimidator-1,2,3 shafts?
Agreed....if I had to buy it and keep it as part of the deal....I would charge them something.
Hmmmm...I wonder if it's low deflection?
McD Intimidator
They actual had the beast on display at the SBE around 10 years ago. The original price was $80k. It weighs over 9 pounds, so I could see the tendonitis you would get from using not to say what would happen to the cloth if you tilted it the wrong way.
They actual had the beast on display at the SBE around 10 years ago. The original price was $80k. It weighs over 9 pounds, so I could see the tendonitis you would get from using not to say what would happen to the cloth if you tilted it the wrong way.
I see they finally made a cue for players who also like to go to Renaissance fairs:grin:
purchased by a drug lord from mexico no doubt
Dude who bought it is going to be pissed. It isn't going to fit in his case.
Ah, the Intimidator has found a new home. I actually hit some balls with this monster while visiting the factory and it has drawn blood before. Interesting story of how this masterpiece was conceived and brought to life. If anyone wants the scoop, all you have to do is ask.
Did you find it tended to overcut balls....and your opponents? :yikes:
...I wouldn't need a stakehorse with that thing....I'd need a real horse.
Ok, ok, I'm asking for the scoop.
Ok, many moons ago when Jim McDermott got tired of running out of room, he built a cue makers wet dream of a factory. There was a room for every operation in the cue building process and a very nice showroom with tables and cues and game room equipment. This plant would still be in operation today if the billiard biz had maintained its explosive growth of the 80's. They have since downsized a bit and moved into a more affordable building.
Back to the story. The new factory had a resident artist by the name of Roy Nehs. He had his own studio in the plant and created all the media ads and had a hand in some cue designs as well. He gave me a tour and showed me some of the things he was working on, from cues to print stuff and various other multi-tasking efforts. On one of his drafting tables was a stack of hand drawn forearms and butt designs that I got a chance to get a glance through. Some really nice designs that were rejected by Jim because he had seen similar work in other cues. Those were the years that you could spot a McD cue from across the room....the D series of cues. They looked like no other cues.
Anyways, Roy told me how he got the Intimidator in the works.....On one of the art sheets he had a pencil sketch of the cue that more or less looked like some doodling. Jim asked him what it was and he told him....it was just a fantasy art cue design...but we could never build anything like that.....
Hence, he dared an Irishman, and Mr. McDermott said get it started. The rest is history.
There is a custom case made for the cue, a big box case made by Yanez or O'Neill.
Back to the story. The new factory had a resident artist by the name of Roy Nehs. He had his own studio in the plant and created all the media ads and had a hand in some cue designs as well. He gave me a tour and showed me some of the things he was working on, from cues to print stuff and various other multi-tasking efforts. On one of his drafting tables was a stack of hand drawn forearms and butt designs that I got a chance to get a glance through. Some really nice designs that were rejected by Jim because he had seen similar work in other cues. Those were the years that you could spot a McD cue from across the room....the D series of cues. They looked like no other cues.
Anyways, Roy told me how he got the Intimidator in the works.....On one of the art sheets he had a pencil sketch of the cue that more or less looked like some doodling. Jim asked him what it was and he told him....it was just a fantasy art cue design...but we could never build anything like that.....
Hence, he dared an Irishman, and Mr. McDermott said get it started. The rest is history.
There is a custom case made for the cue, a big box case made by Yanez or O'Neill.
Are you sure about that story?
I don't know about this "fantasy Cue", and the part about spotting D-series cues from across the room, hmmm
:smile: