Sandy Laube wants to know about her father, Eddie

[sfleinen]

His cues were made with basic shop tools. These days perfection is just difficult, back then it was almost impossible. These 5 veneer points are perfectly equal in length, and each inlay dot has a tiny notch to accommodate them.

By the way, his butt taper? Parabolic - his joints do not touch the table when you roll the handle alone. This was before Kersenbrock and South West made the taper well known.

Chris:

This is stunning work for basic shop tools. And in addition to the parabolic taper to the butts (I have a Schuler built by Noel Mendoza with this taper, and rolls the same way), it appears that the shafts have an extreme pro-taper of some kind. You can see the taper really flare-out in the few inches next to the joint!

What a great thread -- to "reconnect family roots" like this!
-Sean

 

[dmgwalsh]

Hi Everyone,This Is Frank Sandy's Husband. Sandy Is Looking Forward To Speaking With All Of You. IT Will Be After 10/15 As Sandy Does Tax Returns And Is Swamped With Clients Coming In Before The 10/15 Deadline.

She might be able to talk to Frank "Sailor" Stellman who bought his cue making equipment from Mr. Laube. 262 488-5668. He is not in the best of health but might welcome the call.

 

[TATE]

She might be able to talk to Frank "Sailor" Stellman who bought his cue making equipment from Mr. Laube. 262 488-5668. He is not in the best of health but might welcome the call.

That's awesome - thanks guys. Sandy is busy for the next few days. She's going to join in the conversation when she gets some time.

I don't know how it feels to not know one of my parents. This seems to be her way of acquainting herself with her roots and satisfying her curiousity about her dad. I can tell you so far she's very pleased with the connections being formed here.

 

[DaveK]

That's awesome - thanks guys. Sandy is busy for the next few days. She's going to join in the conversation when she gets some time.

I don't know how it feels to not know one of my parents. This seems to be her way of acquainting herself with her roots and satisfying her curiousity about her dad. I can tell you so far she's very pleased with the connections being formed here.

You are a good man for facilitating these connections, very well played !

Dave

 

[Scott Lee]

Kevin...I don't know when Eddie "sold out" his shop, but the cue I bought, I got off of a broke poolplayer in El Paso in 1975. The next year I went to Chicago, and Eddie met me at his Elston Ave shop (which I believe was mostly shut down, but he met me there anyway), which was at the address in the window on the bottom of the cue, and told me a story about the cue that I had. He told me that it was one of his first cues (it had an elkhorn ferrule), and that any shaft he ever made would match up perfectly with any butt he ever made. That seemed pretty impressive to me, and the cue was a great player (too heavy for me, but a great hitting cue nonetheless). Almost 30 years later Tate sold that cue for me, as a favor. Interesting that Chris says that Laube's early cues didn't have the "patent" window, with his shop address.

Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com

I met Eddie Laube some time in the early 1970s. Dennis Dieckman was looking to start making cues and he and I traveled together to meet Laube and discuss buying his business. As I recall, Laube was looking to sell everything, name, patents and equipment, and offered to train Dennis as part of the deal and Dennis could come out of the deal making Laube cues. I think Dennis was more interested in making cues of the Hemstetter design. Carl Conlon was coming back from Japan with revolutionary Helmstetter 3-Cushion cues, and those were rather inspiring. However, Dennis may have subsequently bought some of Laube's equipment (for some reason I believe that the one lathe that Dennis has ever owned he may have obtained from Laube, but you should check with Dennis on that). If it is Laube's lathe, several great 3-Cushion player's cues were subsequently turned on it, as well the Predator design being invented on it.

Kevin

 

[Chopdoc]

This is amazing.


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[thommy]

This kind of thing makes me feel good just being a member here.

 

[Island Drive]

Sandy, welcome and I've only one story about your dad's cuestick. Growing up in Glen Ellyn and seeing Godon Hart peddle his Viking cues mid sixties, I ran across a local kid/player that played real well during highschool. This kid was the best player in our city for a youngster, but what I remember is two things, a grey plastic/metal joint and the ''Sound'' it made when striking the cue, never heard another cue make 'that' sound, and it was more enhanced when the cue ball was struck properly. That's about it. Can't say the sound, but it kinda was a pop noise.

Probably first ''heard'' and saw this cue, 1965 or 66, back when there was a cuestick/cheap being sold around Chicago area, called the Rocket for $20 with a brass joint that was being sold to us youngsters, your dads cues were ''too'' expensive for just kids, and I think the kid that used it, it was his dads cue.

 

[TATE]

Kevin...I don't know when Eddie "sold out" his shop, but the cue I bought, I got off of a broke poolplayer in El Paso in 1975. The next year I went to Chicago, and Eddie met me at his Elston Ave shop (which I believe was mostly shut down, but he met me there anyway), which was at the address in the window on the bottom of the cue, and told me a story about the cue that I had. He told me that it was one of his first cues (it had an elkhorn ferrule), and that any shaft he ever made would match up perfectly with any butt he ever made. That seemed pretty impressive to me, and the cue was a great player (too heavy for me, but a great hitting cue nonetheless). Almost 30 years later Tate sold that cue for me, as a favor. Interesting that Chris says that Laube's early cues didn't have the "patent" window, with his shop address.

Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com

Now that you mention it, all of those shafts are interchangeable - I really didn't realize it before now.

He applied for his patent in 1963 and it was issued in 1966. his decal cues had "Petent Pending" on them plus his address, then his later cues have the patent number on them.

I wonder if he invented the parabolic taper popularized by South West? I didn't realize it until I pulled some of his cues out and they have that distinctive "rocket flare" shape.

 

[TATE]

Kevin...I don't know when Eddie "sold out" his shop, but the cue I bought, I got off of a broke poolplayer in El Paso in 1975. The next year I went to Chicago, and Eddie met me at his Elston Ave shop (which I believe was mostly shut down, but he met me there anyway), which was at the address in the window on the bottom of the cue, and told me a story about the cue that I had. He told me that it was one of his first cues (it had an elkhorn ferrule), and that any shaft he ever made would match up perfectly with any butt he ever made. That seemed pretty impressive to me, and the cue was a great player (too heavy for me, but a great hitting cue nonetheless). Almost 30 years later Tate sold that cue for me, as a favor. Interesting that Chris says that Laube's early cues didn't have the "patent" window, with his shop address.

Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com

Thanks Scott.

Now that you mention it, all of those shafts are interchangeable - I really didn't realize it before now.

He applied for his patent in 1963 and it was issued in 1966. his decal cues had "Petent Pending" on them plus his address, then his later cues have the patent number on them.

I wonder if he invented the parabolic taper popularized by South West? I didn't realize it until I pulled some of his cues out and they have that distinctive "rocket flare" shape.

 

[SANDY LAUBE]

Thank you everyone for the wonderful reponse! It brought tears to my eyes that so many people responded with such a warm welcome. And hearing from Pa's friend Freddie the Beard and other people that knew him is beyond what I expected!
I loved Pa and his parakeet picture and all your stories. And Kevin made me laugh in his telling of the Styrofoam cups. My Dad must be beaming with pride that I am keeping up the family tradition as I also hand out Styrofoam cups to my clients.
I have printed out all your responses for my scrapbook and they are all most precious to me! If you have any other stories of my Dad, please post them. And thank you again for all the contact information.

Sandy Laube

 

[TATE]

Thank you everyone for the wonderful reponse! It brought tears to my eyes that so many people responded with such a warm welcome. And hearing from Pa's friend Freddie the Beard and other people that knew him is beyond what I expected!
I loved Pa and his parakeet picture and all your stories. And Kevin made me laugh in his telling of the Styrofoam cups. My Dad must be beaming with pride that I am keeping up the family tradition as I also hand out Styrofoam cups to my clients.
I have printed out all your responses for my scrapbook and they are all most precious to me! If you have any other stories of my Dad, please post them. And thank you again for all the contact information.

Sandy Laube

Good luck with your search Sandy!

 

[Mr. Bond]

I was recently told that Tex Fitzgerald is also still around. If I get a chance to speak with him, I will certainly ask him about his relationship with Eddie.

 

[cueaddicts]

Mr. Laube was a great cuemaker....very innovative for the time!

Scott, one of these two may look familiar....Sean

 

[SANDY LAUBE]

Thank you Mr. Bond for the newspaper clipping.

 

[Scott Lee]

Sean...Yep, the bottom cue was mine! Glad to know you got it! I used to polish the joint, joint screw, and the ring on the shaft. Man they gleamed like gold! LOL Eddie would never tell me what the material was around the joint screw! The wrap looks different. Originally it had a darker Cortland linen wrap. I think the shaft had a red dot too, that matched up with the red dot on the butt sleeve, when they were screwed together.

Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com

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Scott, one of these two may look familiar....Sean

 

[SANDY LAUBE]

Thank you Sean for the wonderful pictures of my Dad's cues. He was so talented. I wonder how many hours of labor those took to make. Thank you for your private message. I tried to respond, but could not figure out how to reply. I need to be about 30 years younger to quickly learn how to use AZ.