Show your palmers
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Randy, that's a lot of *NJ CUE BLING*......nice group of Palmers !!
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Could not have got them without your help. Thanks again and I am glad you are back. You will have to let me know if there is something else that belongs in the collection. Everybody please keep posting the pictures again they are the finest custom/production cues ever made in my opinion. Merry Christmas to all. Randy
Could not have got them without your help. Thanks again and I am glad you are back. You will have to let me know if there is something else that belongs in the collection. Everybody please keep posting the pictures again they are the finest custom/production cues ever made in my opinion. Merry Christmas to all. Randy
Barry13,
That is a super collection of high end Palmers.
JV
That is a super collection of high end Palmers.
JV
The other cues meaning the inlayless cues? The M is a friend of mines, if I see him I'll ask if I can take a pic, and the 19 was actually an 18. I believe there are two 18's, one we see at the show yearly, the other actually has one inlay in the handle and I think Tate owns it.
JV
Sorry I don't have any close up shots, here is my Palmer Model "A" with original wrap. I bought this cue when I was 15 years old from a college student from New Jersey, here in Tampa in 1975 for $35, he needed cash to take his girl to the Disco. The extra shaft is a Wayne Gunn with Micarta ferrule, it shoots lights out.
As a young player hanging out at Bakers in Tampa, Palmer was the best of the best, Steve Cook had one, Junior "Lefty" Goff had one and a few of the other guys and some of the road players had them. I always wondered, what if fast eddie had said Palmer instead of Balabushka?
The college student had a roommate that would often shoot with us, he had a window cue in a Palmer case, he would not sell it to me.
In 1987 I had Jay Flowers make me a 2X4 case to match the color of my Palmer, I beleive this is the only Blue on he ever made, as I have never seen or heard of another.
Pictured here with my Wayne Gunn Sneaky Pete, also with Micarta ferrule, and a home made Jump cue with the handle cut down to fit in the pocket of the flowers.
As a young player hanging out at Bakers in Tampa, Palmer was the best of the best, Steve Cook had one, Junior "Lefty" Goff had one and a few of the other guys and some of the road players had them. I always wondered, what if fast eddie had said Palmer instead of Balabushka?
The college student had a roommate that would often shoot with us, he had a window cue in a Palmer case, he would not sell it to me.
In 1987 I had Jay Flowers make me a 2X4 case to match the color of my Palmer, I beleive this is the only Blue on he ever made, as I have never seen or heard of another.
Pictured here with my Wayne Gunn Sneaky Pete, also with Micarta ferrule, and a home made Jump cue with the handle cut down to fit in the pocket of the flowers.
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My next Palmer would come to me in 2007, here is my PB-8, it has an early style butt cap and bumper, I think it was made before the models pictured in the catalog. I purchased the cue for $300 not knowing exactly what it was, I liked the way it played and looked so I posted up an I.D. this cue thread back in April of 2007, turned out it was a Plamer, and after that I realized I could have I.D. it myself, as I had a 1987 Palmer catalog.
The story behind the cue came to me a few weeks after I bought it, as the story goes; When Katrina was heading towards New Orleans, Freddy "Kreole" Yates who was still in prison at the time, had is ex-wife ship
all his cues to a friend of his in Tampa, Buddy Halls old steakhorse.
The cue made it's way to an old friend and owner of the Flamingo bar where I play, Yates was getting out of prison and selling some of his old stuff off to get some cash to get started in his new life here in Tampa.
When I met Yates a few weeks after I purchased the cue, he informed me the cue was a very old Plamer made in the shop in NJ, not overseas, and it belonged to an old friend of his who had passed away, Don "Portland" Watson" Yates had shot clear coat over the cue to preserve the original wrap complete with tobacco stains.
I have no documentation to prove this, just a great old story to go with the cue.
The story behind the cue came to me a few weeks after I bought it, as the story goes; When Katrina was heading towards New Orleans, Freddy "Kreole" Yates who was still in prison at the time, had is ex-wife ship
all his cues to a friend of his in Tampa, Buddy Halls old steakhorse.
The cue made it's way to an old friend and owner of the Flamingo bar where I play, Yates was getting out of prison and selling some of his old stuff off to get some cash to get started in his new life here in Tampa.
When I met Yates a few weeks after I purchased the cue, he informed me the cue was a very old Plamer made in the shop in NJ, not overseas, and it belonged to an old friend of his who had passed away, Don "Portland" Watson" Yates had shot clear coat over the cue to preserve the original wrap complete with tobacco stains.
I have no documentation to prove this, just a great old story to go with the cue.
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My next Palmer would come to me in 2007, here is my PB-8, it has an early style butt cap and bumper, I think it was made before the models pictured in the catalog. I purchased the cue for $300 not knowing exactly what it was, I liked the way it played and looked so I posted up an I.D. this cue thread back in April of 2007, turned out it was a Plamer, and after that I realized I could have I.D. it myself, as I had a 1987 Palmer catalog.
The story behind the cue came to me a few weeks after I bought it, as the story goes; When Katrina was heading towards New Orleans, Freddy "Kreole" Yates who was still in prison at the time, had is ex-wife ship
all his cues to a friend of his in Tampa, Buddy Halls old steakhorse.
The cue made it's way to an old friend and owner of the Flamingo bar where I play, Yates was getting out of prison and selling some of his old stuff off to get some cash to get started in his new life here in Tampa.
When I met Yates a few weeks after I purchased the cue, he informed me the cue was a very old Plamer made in the shop in NJ, not overseas, and it belonged to an old friend of his who had passed away, Don "Portland" Watson" Yates had shot clear coat over the cue to preserve the original wrap complete with tobacco stains.
I have no documentation to prove this, just a great old story to go with the cue.
great cue capt........i used to own one that was a lot like your cue.....i wish i neevr sold it....mine was almost 20 oz. but the balance was so nice.....