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1pocketguru

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Anybody know the history of cue tips?
What was used during Luther Lassiter and Mosconi and Hoppe time? What was ernie putting on Gina's back in the day? What was on the first balabushkas? Maybe there is some knowledge in the billiards encyclopedia? Anyone care to share some history? Thanks ya'll. Gute Schtoss.
 
1pocketguru said:
Anybody know the history of cue tips?
What was used during Luther Lassiter and Mosconi and Hoppe time? What was ernie putting on Gina's back in the day? What was on the first balabushkas? Maybe there is some knowledge in the billiards encyclopedia? Anyone care to share some history? Thanks ya'll. Gute Schtoss.
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I'm sensing that SEVERE boredom is setting in. ;) They used basic single layer tips. The original Chandivert Champion tips were very popular back then. Used by a lot of makers. Elks and Triangles were common too.
 
garczar said:
I'm sensing that SEVERE boredom is setting in. ;) They used basic single layer tips. The original Chandivert Champion tips were very popular back then. Used by a lot of makers. Elks and Triangles were common too.
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I was taught this:

In the 1700's as pool sticks were shifting from hooked mallets to actual cues a one-legged French navy guy who put leather tips on the end of his peg leg so he would not slip on marble floors kept miscueing with his billiards stick and figured that if it worked for his leg it would work on his cue.

And so it began...
 
there was water buffalo tips before bill ever put them on.

what i dont understand is ,, how could so many players run hundreds of balls in those days with old style useless leather tips and wooden shafts that squirted the cueball all over the place.

oh wait..... that's the equipment i still use.
 
the best players use Royal Oak tips. they put Chandivert out of business after they printed Improved on the box and guaranteed each and every tip.

Performance of these tips are legendary almost mythical.

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there was water buffalo tips before bill ever put them on.

what i dont understand is ,, how could so many players run hundreds of balls in those days with old style useless leather tips and wooden shafts that squirted the cueball all over the place.

oh wait..... that's the equipment i still use.
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Skill...and then consider that just maybe all that new technology introduced over the past few decades isn't quite the leaps and bounds improvement that those selling it make it out to be???
 
pwd72s said:
Skill...and then consider that just maybe all that new technology introduced over the past few decades isn't quite the leaps and bounds improvement that those selling it make it out to be???
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I think all currently measurable aspects of the game are 'better', thanks to the innovators who love our game and money too.

Does the game require 'better' than it was 50+ yr ago? Not really, imo. Dabbers gonna dab.
 
I began playing pool in 66. Lots of cigarette smoke, burn marks on all the rails and no idea what cue tip was on those house cues.

Don’t recall it ever coming up in a conversation either.

I was 14 and had no idea what I was doing but I know I liked it. Cause I still lay pool! A little better too!
 
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