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Early Palmers did not have Bumpers but they were in NJ
I would guess you mean GB. RAFFLE ONE OFF RAFFLE ONE OFF
Don't Forget! Club Membership is cool
George and Eugene were in a club. The no bumper club. :grin-square: :thumbup2:
GET ONE
Early Palmers did not have Bumpers but they were in NJ
I would guess you mean GB. RAFFLE ONE OFF RAFFLE ONE OFF
Don't Forget! Club Membership is cool
George and Eugene were in a club. The no bumper club. :grin-square: :thumbup2:
GET ONE
Sorry, I cant help you with the name, but hasn't there been several who make them that way?
Personally, I love the look of a cue without bumpers, but how unfunctional really. It is just about inevitable to hit your cue on the floor. I will occasionally slam the butt of my stick on the floor after being frustrated by a shot. I would hate to do this with a nice, bumperless cue. Hummm...maybe that would be a good thing for me!
That being said, I have seen slide over bumpers for cues (similar to a condom). I used to have a rubber "wrap" (for lack of a better definition) that I could slide over my cue. It was actually very nice when your hands get very dry and the cue is slipping out of your hand a little. I used to joke when I would slide on the condom that I was about to play "safe" pool.
P.S. I don't know where I got them, but if anyone does...please post links.
Personally, I love the look of a cue without bumpers, but how unfunctional really. It is just about inevitable to hit your cue on the floor. I will occasionally slam the butt of my stick on the floor after being frustrated by a shot. I would hate to do this with a nice, bumperless cue. Hummm...maybe that would be a good thing for me!
That being said, I have seen slide over bumpers for cues (similar to a condom). I used to have a rubber "wrap" (for lack of a better definition) that I could slide over my cue. It was actually very nice when your hands get very dry and the cue is slipping out of your hand a little. I used to joke when I would slide on the condom that I was about to play "safe" pool.
P.S. I don't know where I got them, but if anyone does...please post links.
Sorry, I cant help you with the name, but hasn't there been several who make them that way?
Personally, I love the look of a cue without bumpers, but how unfunctional really. It is just about inevitable to hit your cue on the floor. I will occasionally slam the butt of my stick on the floor after being frustrated by a shot. I would hate to do this with a nice, bumperless cue. Hummm...maybe that would be a good thing for me!
That being said, I have seen slide over bumpers for cues (similar to a condom). I used to have a rubber "wrap" (for lack of a better definition) that I could slide over my cue. It was actually very nice when your hands get very dry and the cue is slipping out of your hand a little. I used to joke when I would slide on the condom that I was about to play "safe" pool.
P.S. I don't know where I got them, but if anyone does...please post links.
I just saw this last night! So.. ask and you shall receive...
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-CAROM-BLACK...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item5632808d44
Many years ago there were many cue makers that didn't use bumpers on their cues. Do you have any other information?
The guy you're talking about was "Bumperless" Bob Jankowski. He got the idea for a bumperless cue after his wife came home from a day of shopping with the bumper torn off the rear of their '57 Buick Roadmaster. Bob looked at it and said. "Who needs it."
Early Palmers did not have Bumpers but they were in NJ
I would guess you mean GB. RAFFLE ONE OFF RAFFLE ONE OFF
Don't Forget! Club Membership is cool
George and Eugene were in a club. The no bumper club. :grin-square: :thumbup2:
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GB????????????????
95% of Bushkas had bumpers - and Eric certainly would know that.
(inside joke)
Dale
Paradise was in New JERSEY.
IMHO - since it is Fatboy asking this question, he is looking
for someone pretty obscure.
Dale
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Yes. Bumpers were associated with cheap house cues, so many custom makers avoided them. Of course, look at all the broken buttcaps of those old cues.
It's interesting that if a cue uses Delrin for the butt material, there is no need for a bumper because it's virtually unbreakable.
Chris
sorry my question was vague at best i was on a 2 hour call with a friend, and we were talking about bumperless cue, the guy had the shop open for 40 years or something like that, best I recall ha closed it in the last 5-8years. it wasnt a big name, big $$$, celebrity cue maker, i saw a article in one of the magazines about him closing up shop, he was very old and just shut down.
Please don't apologize Fatboy. I was only being facetious. It's Sunday morning and I haven't got anything to do until the Superbowl game starts.
ABE RICH IS THE ONLY 40 YEAR PLUS CUEMAKER THAT I CAN THINK OF, THAT RECENTLY CLOSED SHOP... BUT HE USED BUMPERS.
Marcus
Mueller's has colors.....
http://www.poolndarts.com/index.cfm...0D0&Fuseaction=Catalog.Product&productID=4965
RFisher...Rambow was from Chicago, not New York! 
Fatboy is/was looking for a NY cuemaker, and passed away recently. Herman Rambow died a LOOOONG time ago (late 60's IIRC).
Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
Fatboy is/was looking for a NY cuemaker, and passed away recently. Herman Rambow died a LOOOONG time ago (late 60's IIRC).Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
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Fatboy you suck for starting this thread, I'll be thinking about cue condoms all week now and chuckling randomly. People at work will probably start to throw glances at me.
RFisher...Rambow was from Chicago, not New York!
Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
Hence why I said probably not who your looking for. But some times people think they know what there asking or talking about and they are way off, for example about a month ago I was talking to Dave Jacoby at a tournament in Minnesota, I brought up My Black Boar that Burtain Spain put a leather wrap on, this other guy who was listening and fancies him self a cue expert thought he'd chime in and embarrass me and Said:
"Boy......that would be a hell of an Item except Burtain Spain Died in like 1975 care to make up another story"
So I slowly turned my head and Said: "Are you thinking of George Balabuska? Nice Try, now go read up on the Internet about all the cues you've never seen and you try again"
Just so you know, I wouldn't usually Say any thing like this to someone but this guy barely knows the difference between a cue Joint and a marijuana Joint, and he often acts and talks holy er than thou
I was just throwing that name out there just in case, Kind of like others are doing, try again.
Hi Eric,
I think the guy you're talking about might have been Karl Mayer. He was actually working out of NJ, I think, but here's a link to his brochure on the Classic Cues website:
http://www.classiccues.com/graphics/cues/cue_related/cues_brochures/mayer_1980front_hi.jpg
I owned a couple of his cues and neither had bumpers...
Regards,
Steve
I think the guy you're talking about might have been Karl Mayer. He was actually working out of NJ, I think, but here's a link to his brochure on the Classic Cues website:
http://www.classiccues.com/graphics/cues/cue_related/cues_brochures/mayer_1980front_hi.jpg
I owned a couple of his cues and neither had bumpers...
Regards,
Steve