to never actually exist
gino ferrari? julio stambolini? mario viscotti?
who dreams this sh*t up?
gino ferrari? julio stambolini? mario viscotti?
who dreams this sh*t up?
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Fine Italian Cuemakers...
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i wasn't saying that the notion of a fine italian cuemaker was preposterous.
i'm saying that the idea of some busninessman slapping a fabricated italian name and signature on a factory-made import cue is a little comical.
maybe i should have prefaced by stating that i have dual-citizenship to avoid people finding offense where none is even remotely intended?
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Is it signed?
I get it.
I think it's actually smart.
To many with American ears such names sound sophisticated. Like Italian designers it evokes a certain feeling. French sounds sophisticated too but not in the same way. Italian names evoke an association with exotic performance.
It may not work for you, but I think it's smart marketing.
What about names like:
Predator?
Poison?
Cobra?
Next there will be Anthrax and Syphilis. LOL!
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i was imagining chinese businessmen brainstorming these names at fictitious round-table meetings, or dick helmstetter baked out of his gourd, sitting on his couch watching the godfather, and i got a kick out of it.I get it.
I think it's actually smart.
To many with American ears such names sound sophisticated. Like Italian designers it evokes a certain feeling. French sounds sophisticated too but not in the same way. Italian names evoke an association with exotic performance.
It may not work for you, but I think it's smart marketing.
What about names like:
Predator?
Poison?
Cobra?
Next there will be Anthrax and Syphilis. LOL!
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smart, but comical tactic.
That may well be how it happens but I suspect it is more their American distributors or marketing people etc that come up with these names.
When the Chinese come up with the name it ends up a bit different. Like really strange sometimes.
The whole signature thing really took off. At first it was famous player names...which sort of made sense. Even baseball gloves and bats get that marketing treatment. Then we have the "Balabushka" cues.
Then the totally made up names. And some are not made up like Robert Weir that were real names but not cue makers.
What's really funny is when people insist it is a real maker and/or a real signature.
There was a guy at the local pool hall trying to explain to me how his rare Helmstetter was produced in the US by Richard himself...and signed by him. It was clearly an Adam made Helmstetter cue and a low end one at that.
And I knew a guy in the early 90's with an Adam Babushka that insisted that GB himself made the cue.
Then there is some "reverse" marketing where an American maker chooses and Chinese word for their brand. Joss.
That one, to me, ends up being the odd one. :smile:
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Makes me think of Schon with the umlaut (dots) over the "Ö".
It was a completely made up name, a marketing move, right?
This sort of thing has been going on since the beginning of time. I guess you guys were too distracted by something else to see the Nike swoosh on Eve's blouse. :grin:
best,
brian kc
It was a completely made up name, a marketing move, right?
This sort of thing has been going on since the beginning of time. I guess you guys were too distracted by something else to see the Nike swoosh on Eve's blouse. :grin:
best,
brian kc
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We've had dinner together on several occasions.
You best hang onto that. They are appreciating too fast and haven't nearly hit their peek.
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You found a rare Joss NorthWest.
But you spelled Stroudioli wrong. It's Stroudiolini.
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didn't they do the Dreamolini line of cues...?