I would like to know if Gus always used the same tip or if it was customer preference. If he used the same kind, what was it? Thanks
Big Al
Big Al
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Al, I am not certain if did or didn’t use the same tips. But, I would bet that he either used Le Pro or Triangle cue tips. In the late 60s and through the 1970s they were very popular. In addition there wasn’t a large selection of tips around like today, so I suspect that’s what he used, I could be wrong, but I don’t think so.
Try a pressed Le Pro medium leather tip, you might really like it!!!
I had several tips put on by Gus back in Jersey and they were always Le Pro tips.
If he had any others I dont know.
Like manwon said back in the day there were not a lot of tips around.
If you needed a new tip you just had one put on rarely even asking what brand it was,same with chalk you just used want the room had mostly Masters.
The game was simpler back then.
If he had any others I dont know.
Like manwon said back in the day there were not a lot of tips around.
If you needed a new tip you just had one put on rarely even asking what brand it was,same with chalk you just used want the room had mostly Masters.
The game was simpler back then.
Thanks, I have some LePro tips, but I don't have a presser. I will check into getting one.Al, I am not certain if did or didn’t use the same tips. But, I would bet that he either used Le Pro or Triangle cue tips. In the late 60s and through the 1970s they were very popular. In addition there wasn’t a large selection of tips around like today, so I suspect that’s what he used, I could be wrong, but I don’t think so.
Try a pressed Le Pro medium leather tip, you might really like it!!!
I tried to press a LePro tip in a cheap Harbor Freight vice and I cranked it tight and the vise cracked!I use to press them in a vise for 24 hours!!
Hope this helps.
Ethier the vise was crap or the tip was super hard or I'm too strong.
Were they made by Chandivert
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erikjohn67
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When Hobo Freight (I do love them
) asks me if I want to buy the extended warranty I just tell them when it craps out I will just throw it in the garbage and come back and buy another. Actually broke one of their vises as well but it did last for a bout 15 years and broke with I had a 5' bar on the crank 
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I'm really not sure who made them, they came in a plain box with a red label that just said Champion and made in France beware of imitations
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He used Chandivert Champion tips. I sold some of them to a cue maker friend a few years ago. I think he was he was restoring a a G.S. cue. I still have a few laying around. They were a fairly soft tip. Sort of hard to describe actually. I put some on some of my old Adam cues. they were prone to mushrooming but played very nice.
I could be wrong, but I don't think the Champion and Crown tips of the 60s and 70s were made by the same outfit Chandivert later on. The quality of the Chandivert tips was nowhere as good as the older Champions and Crowns. I read somewhere that a French guy made the older ones by tanning them with a strange process, burying them underground. Can't confirm that, just remember reading it. As for what Gus used, from seeing a couple from the 70s, they looked like Champions, as they had the red fiber backing. However, they could have been LePros with the fiber pad added. Anyway here are the good ones from the earlier period.
It says BB right on the back just older packaging than Mike was showing.
The BB was Better Billiards, likely nothing to do with the later Chadivert.