[GeorgeAllen]

I am new to wearing a glove, how long should one last, whats fair? What seems to be the best brands.

[9BallroadPro]

GeorgeAllen, on Jul 15 2009, 01:10 PM, said:

I am new to wearing a glove, how long should one last, whats fair? What seems to be the best brands.

6 weeks maybe, and they start looking rough.

[Sodapop]

If you never use it, it should last a lifetime!

[Pelican]

I agree sodapop. If you have clean dry hands and a clean polished shaft...... why bother with a glove. A lot of folks do like them and Sir Joseph is our best seller.

Pel

[FASTLARRY]

In the winter when its dry, is different from the summer, and the North is different from the south or SW, in the summer in high humidity. Hands get clammy. Sticky, not good. Show me any cue in any bar that is not clammy and sticky. You are best off to play with a glove, and I find going back and forth with or without one to be a problem. You have to commit to it, and stay with it.

I have played with a glove now since 93 and playing bare handed just feels strange. It throws me off.

A golf glove is made out of tough leather, and I use it 72 times a round. A pool glove is made out of very thin spandex which makes it fit the hand well and to be slick. The down side is they do not last like the thicker golf gloves. Players just do not realize the amount of strokes they put on one. If I hit 500 shots a day, which is normal, that is 3,500 actions, compared to the72 on the golf glove. That is why they wear out so fast. My hands sweat and I carry 3 or 4 in my case and I change one out every 2 hours, so it will always be dry.

A golfer will accept a glove wears out every 6 weeks and he just buys a new one. He uses the old ones on the range. When the fingers stitching comes open he accepts this as part of the product slowly dying with use. The pool player, who pays half what the golfer did, wants a brand new one replaced. He thinks a glove should be for life. Yo, show me, a woman who will give you that. Half of them are gone in 7. So things come and they go.

If you play a lot and you get 6 weeks out of a glove, I would consider that good. When mine begin to have stitches come loose in the fingers, they are just for practice. I keep new gloves for my important matches.

When I bring my gloves home at night, I put one on, put it under the faucet, wet it, apply soft soap and rub out the chalk dust with a tooth brush using the soap. Rinse, hang to dry, good to go the next morning. Soon the areas where your cue goes through the fingers will get sort of sticky, not as slick as normal, due to the glove breaking down. I just spray a little WD40 in those areas and its really slick now. I put a little on my shaft as well.

I sell and stock 3 gloves, Sir Joseph, Sureshot and the new Big Kahuna Glove which is made for me. All 3 are equal in quality and wear. SS is the most expensive, SJ next, BK the cheapest.
SJ fits my hand better, covers over my wrist better and is 1 l/2" longer than the others. But, it does not cover the entire hand which bothers me. It has a lot of colors to choose from.

The Sure shot and the Big Kahuna are virtually the same. They cover the entire hand. Expect to pay, 10 to 12. I have hundreds in stock and those who buy in lots of 6 to a dozen, get a much better deal from me.

The Big Kahuna glove is also sold to other dealers, as I am the sole source on it.

[Dandydan]

The pool hall where I play stopped carrying them because the players kept bringing them back when they wore out and demanded a new one, saying look, this pos is defective. They were losing money on them, which I think is why they are now so hard to find. There are players out there, who want a glove and one cue for life, and somebody to keep it going for them.

[Pelican]

FASTLARRY, on Jul 15 2009, 10:59 PM, said:

Hands get clammy. Sticky, not good.
I just spray a little WD40 in those areas and its really slick now. I put a little on my shaft as well.

If'n ya keeps yo hands outa ya drawers they won't get all sticky!!!!!!!

I prefer KY Jelly to WD40 for my 'shaft'.

GOTJA, Pel

[FASTLARRY]

Pelican, on Jul 16 2009, 10:55 AM, said:

If'n ya keeps yo hands outa ya drawers they won't get all sticky!!!!!!!

I prefer KY Jelly to WD40 for my 'shaft'.

GOTJA, Pel

YO, I CAN c, YO never sprayed no WD on yo big thang. Never used no KY either, because being an old snew-ka player, when I have a choice of going for the pink or the brown, I always pot pink.

I want a little friction. Since I never hop nuttin over 29, nuttin is dried out, so I don't have dis problemo. FL say, when dey dry out, go find a younger model. Dare is no shortage of dem, millions are runnin around, lookin for action.

What, I can't put my hands in my drawers and do a Michael Jackson, or play a little pocket pool with my balls. You sound like one of those old dried up nuns I had to put up in grade school, Fast, get your hand out of your pants, you will go blind, hand on the desk, wack on the back of the wrist with this Canadian hard rock thick ruler that was an inch thick. Their idea was to wack da devil outta ya. The reason I am so screwed up today, was duck and cover every day in school, waiting for da rooskie to nuke me, the nuns wackin on me, and loonie tune cartoons, which instilled all the violence in me brain.

That's me story and Im stickin to it.

fl say, hu's yo daddy dude...

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