Can anyone give me or direct me to information regarding National brand cues?
Depends on the "National Cues you're refering to. There were those made in a custom shop in Cincinnati, there were cues imported from China, Japan, and there are also the National cues made today. This is a completely different company, (National Merchandice of Va. I think). I purchased all of the remaining assets of "National's Custom Shop" many years ago.Ohplayer said:Can anyone give me or direct me to information regarding National brand cues?
cuesmith said:Depends on the "National Cues you're refering to. There were those made in a custom shop in Cincinnati, there were cues imported from China, Japan, and there are also the National cues made today. This is a completely different company, (National Merchandice of Va. I think). I purchased all of the remaining assets of "National's Custom Shop" many years ago.
just more hot air!
Sherm
TATE said:Sherm,
I didn't know that. Are you talking about the equipment that Helmstetter used in the 1960's?
I have an old original National cue. It looks like the plain birdseye Tad's with black dacron wrap. I have the receipt from 1969. These cues weren't marked.
The original operation was started by Richard Helmstetter out of Chicago in 1967 -1968. Richard was a custom cuemaker at the time, before there was Viking he was working with Gordon Hart. He was hired by National Chalk to build cues. He went the custom/production route and hired Bob Meucci among others. I had heard that Craig Peterson also made cues for them. Their original place was moved to Georgia in about 1970 and shut down. Richard went to Japan with David Forman and joined Adam. Meucci went his separarte way, landing at Huebler and then his own company.
The later National Cues with the N look to me like Imperial's.
Chris
larrynj1 said:here's a national chalk co cue - the ones with the n in a circle were made in taiwan iirc.