Ivory butt plugs.....who was the first ??

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Ok, I've been seeing quite a few cuemakers doing this lately and it got me to thinking. Who was the first to do an ivory plug on a bumperless cue and when?

We had Andy Gilbert and Joel Hercek make us a few bumperless cues with ivory plugs about 10 or so years ago and iirc, at the time, the inspiration as a set of joint caps we had come across that had inlaid discs on the tops.

Seems this is becoming somewhat more commonplace nowadays.

Hope Jive doesn't mind me borrowing his pic of his Zinzola that's in the wanted/for sale section. :sorry:

And yes, for all you comedians out there, I'm lol a bit at the terminology used. :)
 

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Richard Black

I saw a Richard Black '87 I think..
Had an Ivory disc with Richard's Knight's Helmet Logo engraved..
Cue belonged to "Young Roy".. I think it had a Hoppe butt.
Seen it at "Hawaiian Brian's" about '91 (?)..
After seening that,
Put a Alternative Ivory disc in my TS with the TS logo..
1st day I brought it to Brian's, an "A" Class guy grabs my cue, hits a ball, misses, and lets my cue hit the floor.
Cracks my new disc.... :sorry:
What an asshole... Didn't even say sorry...:cool:


Added: I think that RB cue is still somewhere here in Hawaii..
 
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thx

Hey Alton, thanks for the info. I'm sure there were some pretty early examples of this out there. I'd like to hear of more older examples, if anyone knows. Guess the intent was strictly decorative (or adding another surface area to be decorative) as a plug like this seems to serve no other purpose than that.

Hope all is going well with you, pal. We need to catch up. :)

Sean
 
cueaddicts said:
Hope Jive doesn't mind me borrowing his pic of his Zinzola that's in the wanted/for sale section. :sorry:
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I don't mind at all :)

I'm equally interested to find out who started doing it, good thread!
 
richard black 1974 -76 they were concave to louden the hit and resonate like a mega phone when every one was looking for that loud ping! he stopped doing it in 76 because he did not like the sound of the hit!
 
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who was

I was going to divert and say the first elephant who stopped in front of the bull who was texting on his phone. But I think I saw a picture of an really old billiard cue that had one.
 
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