Ever seen this happen to a cue ball?

sk8ordie

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A friend of mine brought this in last light and I had to take a picture of it. He was at a tournament in Georgetown SC and when the guy playing broke, a chip flew off the cue ball. When they inspected the cue ball, they found the 12 ball underneath it. Anybody seen or heard of this? It has a thin black coat between the 12 and the white shell.
 

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I'd be on the phone with Valley.

He may have found the lucky $1,000,000 cue ball they were hyping. :thumbup:

Lucky sonofagun!

Best,
Brian kc
 
Was this a bar table? I can see a manufacturer cheapening out and making the large cue ball by adding on to an old regular ball instead of forming a new solid cue ball.
 
This was discussed a few months ago on here. I don't remember exactly what the verdict was but the manufacturer had a bad batch of object balls they made and since you can't just melt them down and start over they turned the bad batch of object balls into cue balls. It was something about the object balls being the wrong size and I'm pretty sure that the forums general verdict was that the cue balls were legit and the manufacturer will send you a new cue ball if this happens. Pretty sure it was aramith.
 
I have seen this in antique clay balls....

They used to recycle old clay balls in two ways. They would take smaller "parlor table" sized balls and use them as cores, or they would grind up the balls and bond them together to make a speckled ball. When making speckled balls they just used more ground up 5 ball to make an orange 5 ball, etc. They made bad runs and they also took old balls in on trade so I am sure they used both stocks to remake cheap balls.
Brunswick at one time made a type of clay ball called "compo-ivory" that had a stamp inside the box stating that the balls were NOT guaranteed. If you tapped a compo ivory ball it sounded hollow, that's because it is a thin shell like your ball, coating an inner ball. I despise bar table cue balls made of that crappy material and I always wondered why they would make an inferior product- I guess we now know why. Shame on you, Valley. I might as well buy Sportcraft.
 
Now everybody will be busting open cue balls to find another lucky ticket.
 

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Hold the phone. Stop the presses. Has anyone bothered to speculate as to why, or how, this particular cue ball just happened to come apart directly over the number 12, and not somewhere else on the ball? Down right suspicious looking to me.
Better check the chicken house boys. See if there ain't a fox wearing a suit with feathers on it. :)
 
The black layer, under the white phenolic layer, is a layer of iron oxide. This is a magnetic cue ball. THis has been discussed in a few other threads.
 
Travis3c said:
yep its real

http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=233569&highlight=travis3c
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Thanks for all the replies, especially this one. Sheds some light. I thought, trick cue ball like the exploding golf ball. I Googled trick pool balls and only found the wobbly cue ball and eight ball trick ones. In this other thread, Manwons cue ball shell looks exactly like this one. I watched that show on Discovery Channel called Sliced, they cut a pool table and a Aramith?? cue ball in half and it looked nothing like this. We lined it up with another Aramith cue ball and a 12 ball and it was the same size??? If it was a trick it was a cool one. Ron
 
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