Jump cues

I know I'm reviving a very old thread, but I've spent hours online trying to find out more about those old "meucci originals" jump cues. I have one, bought it at least 15 years ago, cause it was cute and I could I reckon, lol. Thing is I never play jump shots, so I never use it. It's the SJ-3 model. I was trying to get some info on the value, and or rarity of this cue. Not an easy one to track down. Any info you guys have would be appreciated.
Thanks,

Renegade
 
oddly enough i was around back then in the 80's at the junior nationals/trade show! back then full cue jumps were the rage! Then sammy said i can jump with the shaft only! he tried the shaft and was hoppng all over the place! From there the progression was to create a compromise and split the difference between the shaft lenght and cue lenght! bob meucci and his crew of player reps were the pioneers. bob had them doing trick shots at the trade show to entertain buyers!! Jump shots were just trick shots on steriods! The next year meucci released its first jump cue named after Sammy Jones or they called it the frog! pretty hard to remember the name meucci gave their first jump cue! Bob Meucci, Sammy Jones & Jim Rempe have the best info on this topic!!!!!!

Sammy set up chalk and put a pool ball on top! then jump it! then add another piece of chalk! he got to 5 peices of chalk and a pool ball high!!! he would jump that high!!! the reverse limbo shot!!! how high can you go!!!! All with the shaft only!!! make the ball and stay on the table! he had a ton of control with that shaft!!!!

kid dynomite
 
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Renegade_56 said:
I know I'm reviving a very old thread, but I've spent hours online trying to find out more about those old "meucci originals" jump cues. I have one, bought it at least 15 years ago, cause it was cute and I could I reckon, lol. Thing is I never play jump shots, so I never use it. It's the SJ-3 model. I was trying to get some info on the value, and or rarity of this cue. Not an easy one to track down. Any info you guys have would be appreciated.
Thanks,

Renegade
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SJ-3 is the Sammy Jones model!!!!!!!
 
Yea I know it's the SJ-3, and called one of the Sammy Jones models, but what I'd like to know about is rarity and collector value. Might unload it for the right Schon shooter.
 
should we find him then shoot him?

the first jump cue i had ever seen was one of those short one piece "kid's" cues that you'd see in a poolhall.
 
I hate jump sticks! I think if you jump....do it with your regular cue. The jump cue made it all too easy. Anyone who gets hooked wants to jump at every shot now a days.
 
CaptainHook said:
Sammy "Jumpin" Jones did invent it in 1981, around the mid 80's more players started to use it.
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Hmm in the 80's i remember a bar in St Pete called Flamingo !
Is that wher you are ?
I knew a guy they called Jesus Johnny.

Had GC coin-ops, 9fters.
 
Ooops , double post.

But since I got this open, Pat fleming is the answer.
 
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don't know much about history...

Sometime in the last year or two, an old timer we call 'Tommy Tips' came into our room and he waves me over to say that he wants to show me something he has in his case. He knows I am an appreciator of cues.

He pulls out this very fat, heavily patinized, shorty with what must have started as a phenolic blob on the end that was ground down to, I'm guessing, maybe 50 or 60mm. He said a guy from NYC made it for him many years ago.

I have some knowledge of antiques and consider myself to have a reasonably good eye for estimating an items age. This very strange, almost billy club looking billiard weapon with the h-u-g-e phenolic tip appeared to me to be at least 40 years old. And definitely not a production model. :grin:

Next time I see Tommy Tips I will try to get a picture of this thing so I can post it.

Best,
Brian kc
 
Joeyb1979 said:
I hate jump sticks! I think if you jump....do it with your regular cue. The jump cue made it all too easy. Anyone who gets hooked wants to jump at every shot now a days.
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Yup, I hear ya pard,,,,,these young guys don't wanna learn the rails
 
Kangaroo

Has anyone ever seen a kangaroo jumper.

I guess it was in the mid 80,s when I first saw one.

It looked like an all wooden oversized oak drumstick.

Maybe 24" at the most.

You could jump close and high with that thing as easy as any jumper I have tried.

I don't know who invented it and or if it was the first.
 
donny mills said:
Who came up with the idea for a short jump cue? Who invented the jump cue? Who made the first jump cue?
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Until someone else comes up with something more definitive, the earliest user of a jump cue to my limited knowledge is Pat Fleming.

Pete Tascarella made some kind of jump cue for someone as soon as he first saw Pat Fleming's homemade jump cue. So, possibly Tascarella was the first known cuemaker to make a jump cue.

Fred <~~~ {edit: just saw this is a really old thread}
 
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In 1983 I saw Pat Fleming and Dave Bowman with cut off house cues that they were using in the tournaments to jump with at the River City Open in Austin Texas. Except for Earl they had a definite advantage. At this time I remember Huebler and Meucci had 3 piece cues that they called break jump cues but they did not work very well. It was not a big deal to get one of these cues because they really did not work, and giving up ball in hand was the usual result. In 1986 I started working on cues and also started selling It's George products. I was around Bill Schick at It's George' shop in Shreveport Lousianna. Bill Schick built my It's George cue that I played with on the pro tour. I was sponsored the whole year in 1985 by Skyway Tavern in Warren Ohio and continued to play pro on my own in 1986. In 1986 I went to Mike Roberts who was the owner of It's George Cues and Cases with my idea for a jump cue that became the It's George Jump Cue. Mike Roberts, Bill Schick and I made a deal to produce these cues and share the profits. It was a very practical jump cue that actually worked and became popular among the players. Some time after this the "phenolic tip with leather dust" came about I came out with the ferrule/tip in 1998. A matter of fact I sold Johnny Archer the very first jump cue I personally made for $100.00 in 1991 before he got his Rick Howard break jump that triggered the break jump revolution.
 
The guy that had the kangaroo would be Gene Albrecht I believe. And in 91 or 92 a guy by the name of Jim Peterson put the finger groove in the jump cues. Not sure if this helps or not.
 
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