Felice
Molinari Gloves
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This is exactly my thoughts. Designed to have a limited life. Maybe JB should start making gloves. He sure found the solution to cue cases!
Yes and no. They used to carry their own chalk also and it was hexagon shaped rebranded predator chalk lol Molinari gloves were fantastic. It’s a shame if they’re gone For good.
I’ve seen a website that has a couple of colors in stock. PM me for details.
WillieRackam
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I like full fingered gloves because I play most of my recreational billiards in bars ...
I would even like to find full fingered [w/ 5 "FINGERS"] gloves for use in "sleazy dive bars" where nothin' gets cleaned for YEARS ...
I don't want to share bodily fluids & germs with the "interesting characters" that I encounter there ...
Molinari was never owned by Predator Group. Predator Group produced private label cues, made at HIE for them for the three-cushion market. They were always separate entities with separate owners.
Weren’t they mostly focused on 3 cushion? They were always the stand at the expo with 2 billiard tables at it that had a small tournament going on. I love the shade of blue they use and wanted the special p3 they had For sale. I think I remember all of their shafts being turned down to a thinner diameter for billiards.
You want them thin as Possible.so they aren’t going to last long. The mollinari glove was actually thicker so it last a lot longer but that’s why I didn’t like them. I play every day and I’ve been using my kamui glove for about 9 months and it’s still in good shape. I wash it once a week.
Nine months with daily wear is amazing for a billiard glove, IMO. I need to try the Kamui gloves. Thank you for the recommendation!
It feels as thin as the predator honestly. I love the predator gloves but I’m lucky to get 4 or 5 months and when it gets a hole I‘m done lol it bugs the hell out of me.
Just curious, has anyone tried one of the "liquid glove" products, and if so how well did it work? A couple brands are Invisible Glove, and Gloves in a Bottle if anyone is interested in researching it. These products seem to block various liquid chemicals from reaching the skin, so it stands to reason that they would also block sweat from reaching your cue. Their claims all include fast drying and long lasting so maybe this would be a solution for some folks?
Molinari and Predator group split some years ago. Molinari is now owned by GDM Sports in Belgium. As for the gloves (which I sold a lot of) they aren't really thicker than most other big brands. And let's be clear, no one really wants a thick pool glove as you loose feel and feedback. How long a glove lasts is really hard to say, some players tend to buy a size to small, because they like a really tight fit, which obviously reduces the life of the glove as you put more stress on the seams than what's intended. When a customer expects a glove to last 6 months, 8 months, a year or whatever I tend to shake my head, it's impossible to say, some play two hours a week, some play ten hours a day, so if anything we should try to say how many hours of play a glove should last..
There's still the fact that how players use their glove varies a lot, some rip it off and force their fingers into the glove without straightening out the glove first, some dont take the glove off when taking a leak (gross!!) some players leave the glove in the bag rattling around with chalk, tip tools and what not..
A glove lasts as long as it lasts, if it's aproduction fault, that usually happens pretty fast. I'm usually pretty laid back when it comes to warranty claims and I send out a glove as a free replacement now and then, but more as goodwill than replacing a faulty product. I usually ask for pictures and it's obvious when it's just wear and tear and when it's a production issue.
There's still the fact that how players use their glove varies a lot, some rip it off and force their fingers into the glove without straightening out the glove first, some dont take the glove off when taking a leak (gross!!) some players leave the glove in the bag rattling around with chalk, tip tools and what not..
A glove lasts as long as it lasts, if it's aproduction fault, that usually happens pretty fast. I'm usually pretty laid back when it comes to warranty claims and I send out a glove as a free replacement now and then, but more as goodwill than replacing a faulty product. I usually ask for pictures and it's obvious when it's just wear and tear and when it's a production issue.
They are not though. There is a huge difference in the mollinari glove and the predator.
I have a pair and for 29 bucks they are absolutely not worth it.
For 5 dollars they would be ok.
You're going to need a new glove every 3-4 months.
Don't feel like adding what mounts to yet another 10 dollars a month subscription.
Yeah I love the way they feel but you go through them because they are too thin. That’s why I went back to kamui
Another 5 months past? Guess they really did go out of business.
I had the same problem.
I roll them up to the base of my fingers, then put a small rubberband around at the base just ahead of the roll up. Solves the problem for 90% of shots.