It won’t answer your particular question, but Burt Spain’s book has good background on those early days and his efforts to make blanks himself.
1950’s Cue Builders, List
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It won’t answer your particular question, but Burt Spain’s book has good background on those early days and his efforts to make blanks himself.
Thanks! I know your intentions are honorable. Shooter08
thats what is did in those days. at least in the 60's. i would buy house cues and turn them into nice looking and hitting two piece cues.
the palmer #4 in gene balners cues was my simple design he adopted, that i used to send him to make me cues that i sold that mimicked rambows.
he charged me 25 dollars with a new shaft. 20 if he used the house cue shaft. and 5 dollars more if i wanted a second shaft.
he used micarta or memalin,. i dont remember which screw on ferrels.
i would sell them for 30 or 35 in the pool rooms. as they got one right then instead of having to go there or waiting in the mail.
the palmer #4 in gene balners cues was my simple design he adopted, that i used to send him to make me cues that i sold that mimicked rambows.
he charged me 25 dollars with a new shaft. 20 if he used the house cue shaft. and 5 dollars more if i wanted a second shaft.
he used micarta or memalin,. i dont remember which screw on ferrels.
i would sell them for 30 or 35 in the pool rooms. as they got one right then instead of having to go there or waiting in the mail.
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Where at, as far as area did you cover selling these? Thx, Shooter08
Good one! I have a Titlist conversion by him.
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I went to school with Richard Helmstetter when he started making cues around 1960. You already may have him since he did get famous making cues and golf clubs.
A name I could attach to the list in post #1 is, Curt Johnson from Chicago.
He made 'Perfect' duplicates of Herman Rambow cues!
He even had the same guy (Charlie Kimmel) do the 'Calligraphy' on his cues as Charlie did it for Rambow.
He also owned 'Johnson's Billiards' at Damen & Roscoe in Chicago.
He made 'Perfect' duplicates of Herman Rambow cues!
He even had the same guy (Charlie Kimmel) do the 'Calligraphy' on his cues as Charlie did it for Rambow.
He also owned 'Johnson's Billiards' at Damen & Roscoe in Chicago.
I still have a membership card from Winks,Not my name on it though I used a friends ID to get it.I was maybe 14 or 15My previous playing cue was a house cue that Pappy Winkler (the owner of Wink's Pool Room which was the forerunner to Forest Park Billiards in Dayton) cut in two and put a brass joint in for me. All for $5! I loved that cue until someone stole it from me in a little pool room in Richmond, IN. I was beating up on their .50 cents and a dollar ring game and they didn't like it.