Sorry, I cant help you with the name, but hasn't there been several who make them that way?
Personally, I love the look of a cue without bumpers, but how unfunctional really. It is just about inevitable to hit your cue on the floor. I will occasionally slam the butt of my stick on the floor after being frustrated by a shot. I would hate to do this with a nice, bumperless cue. Hummm...maybe that would be a good thing for me!
That being said, I have seen slide over bumpers for cues (similar to a condom). I used to have a rubber "wrap" (for lack of a better definition) that I could slide over my cue. It was actually very nice when your hands get very dry and the cue is slipping out of your hand a little. I used to joke when I would slide on the condom that I was about to play "safe" pool.
P.S. I don't know where I got them, but if anyone does...please post links.
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The cue maker that was based in NY years and years ago, his cues didnt have bumpers,
thanks
Eric
Early Palmers did not have Bumpers but they were in NJ
I would guess you mean GB. RAFFLE ONE OFF RAFFLE ONE OFF
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George and Eugene were in a club. The no bumper club. :grin-square: :thumbup2:
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I think you mean Frank Paradise. Also, wasn't Mike Ferdunka also in that area, he made cues without bumpers.
Many years ago there were many cue makers that didn't use bumpers on their cues. Do you have any other information?
The guy you're talking about was "Bumperless" Bob Jankowski. He got the idea for a bumperless cue after his wife came home from a day of shopping with the bumper torn off the rear of their '57 Buick Roadmaster. Bob looked at it and said. "Who needs it."
sorry my question was vague at best i was on a 2 hour call with a friend, and we were talking about bumperless cue, the guy had the shop open for 40 years or something like that, best I recall ha closed it in the last 5-8years. it wasnt a big name, big $$$, celebrity cue maker, i saw a article in one of the magazines about him closing up shop, he was very old and just shut down.
sorry my question was vague at best i was on a 2 hour call with a friend, and we were talking about bumperless cue, the guy had the shop open for 40 years or something like that, best I recall ha closed it in the last 5-8years. it wasnt a big name, big $$$, celebrity cue maker, i saw a article in one of the magazines about him closing up shop, he was very old and just shut down.
I just saw this last night! So.. ask and you shall receive...
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-CAROM-BLACK...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item5632808d44
Probly not who your looking for, out of your time line but Most Herman Rambow cue's that I've seen didn't have bumpers
RFisher...Rambow was from Chicago, not New York! Fatboy is/was looking for a NY cuemaker, and passed away recently. Herman Rambow died a LOOOONG time ago (late 60's IIRC).
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