The Last Great Palmer Cue

mikemosconi

mikemosconi

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When I think of Palmer cues, I always draw a mental picture of ebony butt sleeve and points highlighted by Mother of Pearl dots and notched diamond inlays - all contrasted by the traditional white with green spec linen wrap. After the third Palmer catalog, and the passing of Palmer founder Gene Balner - we enter the late 70s into the 80s and Palmer moved production to Japan with the intro of the last catalog series- PB ( Peter Balner). PM ( Peter Margo) and the PM Bullet series.

Thankfully- the top- of - the -line PM-11 cue carried on the Palmer tradition. It was their last catalog cue to feature both ebony butt sleeve and ebony points, MOP dot and notched diamond inlays, and a white/green spec linen wrap - all as standard order on this model.

I recently found a PM-11 worthy of bringing back to as new condition- received it back Sunday from Proficient- I have 2 original shafts for this cue and everything is as new now- definitely not for sale- but proud to own a cue that truly was representative of the end of an era gone by way too early. Here are some pics to enjoy:)
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Beautiful cue. I'm surprised the notches in the diamonds were cut so haphazardly. How fat is the butt?
 
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7stud said:
Beautiful cue. I'm surprised the notches in the diamonds were cut so haphazardly. How fat is the butt?
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I think you are just seeing distortion from my photo- the MOP inlays are near perfect. Actually, as well, everything lines up perfectly on this cue- the points and inlays from the top down through the butt sleeve line up very nicely.
The cue butt is not oversized like Hoppe cues; the cue weight with shafts is 19 +- the PM and PB Palmers were more "modern" era in their lighter cue weights and more "normal" cue dimensions from some of the earlier Palmer catalog cues that often came in at total cue weights from 20 to 21.5 and many had 13.5 MM shafts. I have owned several Palmers over the years.
This cue has a 13MM and 12.7MM shaft and they have normal pro tapers. The cue bumper was exchanged and accepts a CF rear cue extension. It is a very nice solid player, Palmer made a great choice in having this Japan factory produce these PB and PM cues, IMO.
 
mikemosconi said:
I think you are just seeing distortion from my photo- the MOP inlays are near perfect. Actually, as well, everything lines up perfectly on this cue- the points and inlays from the top down through the butt sleeve line up very nicely.
The cue butt is not oversized like Hoppe cues; the cue weight with shafts is 19 +- the PM and PB Palmers were more "modern" era in their lighter cue weights and more "normal" cue dimensions from some of the earlier Palmer catalog cues that often came in at total cue weights from 20 to 21.5 and many had 13.5 MM shafts. I have owned several Palmers over the years.
This cue has a 13MM and 12.7MM shaft and they have normal pro tapers. The cue bumper was exchanged and accepts a CF rear cue extension. It is a very nice solid player, Palmer made a great choice in having this Japan factory produce these PB and PM cues, IMO.
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Do you have any calipers? How fat is the butt?
 
Super nice cue, You do realize that is a Helmstetter cue not a "Palmer" I assume. And yes, The last great Palmer cues for sure! I never was really much of an Adam fan though... Lol I just have a huge collection of them. :LOL:
 
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great looking cue and if it hits like you want all the better.

its too bad a possible great company producing cues turned into a company marketing others cues. and then of course went away.
i knew gene when he started out on his own. and was dedicated for fast honest service.
 
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