Message from TW
Just wanted to relay a message from TW on this topic....
"To see the historical record remain as accurate as possible....
Stacked leather rings [on a cue] may have been "tried" a long time
ago and discarded (not sure), but in the MODERN era of cuemaking Joe
Porper was the first to "introduce" it around the mid-90's.
Joe was experimenting with laminated tips and had a local leather
company punch some disks out for him. These became Joe's "Lami-Tip"...
but the company saw potential for profit and basically "swiped" all
the research work Joe had paid them for, becoming Tiger tips. Before
that happened, Joe saw the sheets of punched-out leather scraps in
their shop and envisioned the idea of stacking individual rings on a
handle core, which he did on a number of cues before his falling-out
with the leather guys.
Tiger eventually changed the idea to be one long wrap-around leather
strip (not a new idea, btw) and abandoned the leather ring approach.
However, they DID offer the individual rings to the marketplace in
bulk for a short period of time."
Just wanted to relay a message from TW on this topic....
"To see the historical record remain as accurate as possible....
Stacked leather rings [on a cue] may have been "tried" a long time
ago and discarded (not sure), but in the MODERN era of cuemaking Joe
Porper was the first to "introduce" it around the mid-90's.
Joe was experimenting with laminated tips and had a local leather
company punch some disks out for him. These became Joe's "Lami-Tip"...
but the company saw potential for profit and basically "swiped" all
the research work Joe had paid them for, becoming Tiger tips. Before
that happened, Joe saw the sheets of punched-out leather scraps in
their shop and envisioned the idea of stacking individual rings on a
handle core, which he did on a number of cues before his falling-out
with the leather guys.
Tiger eventually changed the idea to be one long wrap-around leather
strip (not a new idea, btw) and abandoned the leather ring approach.
However, they DID offer the individual rings to the marketplace in
bulk for a short period of time."
