World's Most Expensive Cue?

Yeah. I've seen that before. It's still the ugliest stick I've ever seen. Why even build it?
 
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.

I agree. The thing is silly. If you can't play with it it's not a cue.
 
It's still the ugliest stick I've ever seen

I've seen uglier cues, and I've owned uglier cues.
In fact I recently sold a cue that anyone who has not been drinking would agree that it was chainsaw ugly.
I heard that the guy who bought the cue shattered it a couple of days later, when he sobered up.

The McDermott is in a different category or ugly, but If you are referring to custom
cues that you can actually play with, my cue was uglier.


:smile:
 
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.

Agreed.

And if this truly weighs 9 pounds, that's even more evidence this s at best a display item and not a cue.
 
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.

Jim McDermott was at the first ever Cuemakers Show in Huston, circa 1990-ish with the "cue" on display.

It was well understood to be some kind of fantasy exhibition piece.

Nobody with a brain cell thought it to be a cue.

Dale
 
I assisted Jim and Jess at that show, and brought some of my cues to sell also.

One night we all loaded up into a few cars and headed to PaPa Deauxs for catfish. Me, John McChesney, Jim Buss, Belinda Bearden, Jim and Jess McDermott, all followed Mr. Willie Elder to have dinner......After dinner we were entertained by Willie and his wife Betty at their home.
 
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