300 tops for a strictly top of the line made and hitting playing cue.
ill go to 500 for some that have to add things.
anything over that is fluff, or name brand value that has nothing to do with its playing.
go ahead and blast me or agree
Not going to blast you, just tell you that you are very wrong. Go down to a machine shop and check their hourly rate. Do the same at a custom woodworking shop. For the skills and equipment required there shouldn't be a custom cue made for under fifteen hundred, few under two thousand.
The people thinking cues should be cheap reminded me of an electrical contractor. He built a new building and needed a computer network. In talking he said he would pay me fifteen dollars an hour just like he paid his college student nephew to work on his computers. At the time, there were less than two-thousand people in the world that had my certifications for computers and networks. I told him he had two options, we would come in for one free consultation or he could be billed $150 a manhour, $300 an hour, for my partner and I to come in and design his network.
Bear in mind that this was over twenty years ago and the electrical contractor was billing over a hundred an hour himself.
If someone takes a look at man hours, machine hours, materials, shop expenses, all the real things that go into building a cue, fair billing would have custom prices starting at three thousand, not three hundred.
Hu