History of a glove?

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If memory serves me correctly I believe 2010's. Users of a glove were once mocked and shamed. It was panties on your hand, Michael Jackson wanna be, the gloved one and sweaty hands. It is now the norm.

I am looking at my room today and notice I was the only player not wearing a glove. The people wearing the gloves were the ones that use to talk shit about glove wearers.

How many of you wear them and how many of you don't?
 
I wear one, and I talk shit about them.
Would rather not wear one, but then I live in an incredibly humid climate.
I don't wear one for snooker, only pool.
I attribute this to faster pace, more table time and thicker shaft when playing pool.
 
OJ and Michael Jackson were best known. Also include Al Jolson. I wear latex gloves in the shop when gluing or finishing
 
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billiards_watch said:
If memory serves me correctly I believe 2010's. Users of a glove were once mocked and shamed. It was panties on your hand, Michael Jackson wanna be, the gloved one and sweaty hands. It is now the norm.

I am looking at my room today and notice I was the only player not wearing a glove. The people wearing the gloves were the ones that use to talk shit about glove wearers.

How many of you wear them and how many of you don't?
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Ii do and can’t imagine playing wiithout one again. never Understood why people hate on gloves so much. 🤔
 

Pool gloves and Golf glove history

http://www.travelandleisure.com/tlgolf/articles/golf-glove-story Here is an interesting article. I've always thought there was a parallel here. I wonder how long before the majority of top players wear gloves, as it seems it took upwards of 30...
forums.azbilliards.com

2009 AZB thread.
 
Unless i’m a sponsored touring pro where my livelihood counts on it and I need consistency everywhere I go, I wont be caught dead wearing one. There’s something about it that screams try-hard. It’s bad enough with the lame shirts and golf bag of cues lol

I hope one day SVB starts rocking the Oakleys like Earl did. Really completes the look 😎
 
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Here is a patent from 1976.

"1976-03-01 Application filed by CUE PRODUCTS Inc"

US4025962A - Pool glove - Google Patents

The invention is directed to a glove to be worn by pool players having a plurality of stalls which sheath the first and second fingers and the thumb of the user's hand to receive a pool cue when a shot is to be made. The third and fourth fingers are uncovered to provide for resting these latter...
patents.google.com

PDF: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/8d/e7/13/a801961abaaeb5/US4025962.pdf

Sample image from application:

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Cicerone88 said:
Unless i’m a sponsored touring pro where my livelihood counts on it and I need consistency everywhere I go, I wont be caught dead wearing one. There’s something about it that screams try-hard. It’s bad enough with the lame shirts and golf bag of cues lol
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Golf bag? I use a golf bag cart for my largest cue case. But it has no storage pouches for accessories, so modern players couldn't tolerate it. LOL!

Yes, it's a cue case.

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billiards_watch said:
If memory serves me correctly I believe 2010's. Users of a glove were once mocked and shamed. It was panties on your hand, Michael Jackson wanna be, the gloved one and sweaty hands. It is now the norm.

I am looking at my room today and notice I was the only player not wearing a glove. The people wearing the gloves were the ones that use to talk shit about glove wearers.

How many of you wear them and how many of you don't?
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I cant tell what you’re asking, but the Blakeman glove and Sir Joseph glove came out in the late 80’s / early 90’s.
 
I remember the Sir Joseph glove as one of the early ones- I believe that the company was out of Florida- I bought one early on and for some people, like me, I never looked back as the consistency of feel in the stroke made a world of difference.
 
The only reason i never bought a carbon fiber shaft was i thought you needed a glove to use it. Turns out you don't. So I'm using a CF shaft without a glove. I still find it pointless as to why people need them. It's the same excuses everytime.
 
I wear one when it's humid. I don't waste my time and energy caring about what other people wear or don't wear.
 
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wtf do you sell cues or something? that's the largest cue case i've seen
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Sell cues? Jeeze...you sound like my wife. Did she send you? She keeps talking about me selling cues. It confuses me.

She's part of the reason behind the case too. She says size matters. :)
 
This was gone over in another topic and I really can't understand the hatred or insistence by some that wearing a glove is stupid, not required, makes someone a poser etc etc. Why does it bother you so much what someone else feels it helps their game to wear a glove?

I didn't wear a glove until recently. Didn't think I needed one. I live in Florida so yes, a humid environment and regardless of using all the normal tricks for having a nice slippy cue I often found, after several games, I'm wiping the cue when i feel it losing a little slide.

I tried a glove...problem solved. I get a consistent smooth stroke every time.

If you don't wear a glove and never have an issue, good for you. As someone else said, I can't understand people wasting their time and energy caring about what other people do.
 
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