were the julio stamboulini cue line from the early 80's all signed? i am in possession of 5 of the 12 models they made. all of them are "signed" to this point were any of them produced without a signature? and if so how would i determine it was a stamboulini? thanks for any help with this
julio stamboulini 80's cues
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Those are a line of cues made and marketed by Adam Cues. There was no Julio at all, that was a name they made up, so there are no unsigned models that would be Julios.
Kevin
Since the poster calls it a cue line and uses the word "signed" in quotes I suspect he is well aware of what you are saying regarding the cues and the name.
I have seen at least a couple of cues that were identical to a Julio cue but had no signature. Were these originally sold as Julio cues? Possibly, if the signature were removed in a refinish. But the remaining question is whether or not any of the Julio cues originally came without a signature. I don't think so. Even if they did, you would have a hard time calling them a Julio cue because it seems they sold at least some cues without the name probably through specific vendors and without calling them Stamboulini cues.
In the end...I wouldn't try to call it a Julio cue without the signature...but I also don't know that it would matter much as they are lower end (though pretty good) cues so their values are not tremendous anyway.
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Interestingly, I don't see the signature on any of the cues, and it isn't mentioned in the brochure....
Makes me wonder.....were they sold without the signature? Perhaps I need to correct my understanding about that matter.
Anyway, I was aware of the violin maker story...but I have also heard that might have been made up as well. I've never checked it out.
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Makes me wonder.....were they sold without the signature? Perhaps I need to correct my understanding about that matter.
Anyway, I was aware of the violin maker story...but I have also heard that might have been made up as well. I've never checked it out.
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There was no Julio the violin maker. Adam invented him and then made and marketed the cues this "famous" violin maker made by hand. Adam did so well with their "Balabushkas" that they decided to invent someone with cache and see if they could do as well without having to pay a family a royalty.
The Stradivarius of cues.
The name is sorta close to the name of a different guy (who did actually exist) that at one time made parts for famous cue makers and decided to go off on his own.
Kevin
The Stradivarius of cues.
The name is sorta close to the name of a different guy (who did actually exist) that at one time made parts for famous cue makers and decided to go off on his own.
Kevin
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the stamboulini line was produced twice early 80's then again in the 90's with the latter being unsigned is my understanding i find them to be a nice shooting lot that i have a few of. thanks for the reply
Hemstetter soon tired of the pool marketing world. He did as well as anybody at it, but he was really a super innovative engineer and pool wasn't really the right place for him. He invented a revolutionary 3-cushion billiard cue that out of the blue the first year it was used, the players using it finished first and second in the worlds championships and that sold maybe 1000 cues for him.
So he migrated to golf, invented the Big Bertha, changed golf completely and made zillions of dollars as the highest-paid non-owner of Calloway Golf. Well he had so much stock at the end, I guess he was an owner.
Kevin
