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DrCue'sProtege said:

Well, ok, so......what exactly is a Black Label then?

I just saw someone on Facebook looking to buy or sell a black label Diamond.

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Black label was just a customer option of the label color. I think very rarely did customers request that. It was around in both the red and blue days. Red and blue were the standard (of each time period).

If it's a table pre-2010 with a black label, it means it a red-label rail design. If it's post 2010, it's a blue-label rail design. My local pool hall owner actually just last year ordered a brand new 9' Pro-Am with a black oval label.

None of this matters for you, all tables made since 2010 (give or take a year, I forgot exactly when the transition happened) have the new blue label rail design.

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iusedtoberich said:

Bill, with all due respect, you've been showing this same video for 10-15 years on here. Every time, people think you hit it rail first, and you end up arguing with everyone. Even Incardona from the best of my recollection when you showed it on the onepocket.org forum thought you hit it rail first. (or might have been here, he's a member on both I believe).

The 2 thin carom table shots you showed from 1992 were not even close to the same. The OB banked at a sharp angle (using pool, not carom terminology). It didn't go anywhere near the corner which would have been 90deg if it did.

The latest video you showed on a pool table of a thin cut "far away from the rail" doesn't look like it was even close to 90 degree.

All you had to do to put this all to rest was recreate your first pool video with the 3 shots on it, but with the OB a solid ball width away from the rail, and the CB at a recognizable spot that is easy to verify its 90deg. People have been asking for that for 15 years, and you never provide it, just argue more.

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I've known Billy and been good friends since 1965, He argues More than I!

And He's Not the End all in the 'Niches' of Pool!

Great Natural talent!

The CB and OB in the 92 Carom shot video are in an exact 'Straight line' with each other!

You actually believe I hit the 'Cushion First' in those 2 shots?

In 2012 I demonstrated this shot in front of 25 people, including, Jimmy Fusco, Pete Fusco and Mitch Brown!

I've only been in a PR once since 2019 and Now I have only one eye!

gregcantrall said:

I have a hard time wrapping my mind around the ban of phenolic tips. My logic question is, how is the collision of the cueball to head ball different?
I have seen cueball and even 1 ball failures. The ring game tables were high mileage and saw some powerful breaks. The occasional trip to the concrete floor or cinder block wall helped initiate failures.

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Dissipation probably. Direct and concentrated impact vs glancing secondary impact.

Well, ok, so......what exactly is a Black Label then?

I just saw someone on Facebook looking to buy or sell a black label Diamond.

My first Predator from 1998 was made ny falcon, great hitting cue.
Never liked the Predator butts once moved to be made in china

Bill, with all due respect, you've been showing this same video for 10-15 years on here. Every time, people think you hit it rail first, and you end up arguing with everyone. Even Incardona from the best of my recollection when you showed it on the onepocket.org forum thought you hit it rail first. (or might have been here, he's a member on both I believe).

The 2 thin carom table shots you showed from 1992 were not even close to the same. The OB banked at a sharp angle (using pool, not carom terminology). It didn't go anywhere near the corner which would have been 90deg if it did.

The latest video you showed on a pool table of a thin cut "far away from the rail" doesn't look like it was even close to 90 degree.

All you had to do to put this all to rest was recreate your first pool video with the 3 shots on it, but with the OB a solid ball width away from the rail, and the CB at a recognizable spot that is easy to verify its 90deg. People have been asking for that for 15 years, and you never provide it, just argue more.

One thing about these, after buying a few gross of shaft blanks I found a lot of them were good for twenty inches, not thirty. This would let the more radical curves be in the wood taper and the straight of the shaft or single taper be in the carbon fiber. I haven't seen anyone do it yet but it seems like the thickness of the CF could be varied by altering the inside taper of the carbon fiber. This would be a huge advantage as a true zero taper pro taper shaft would be possible. A wooden zero taper wooden shaft flexes at the beginning of the increasing taper and plain sucks. Earl was rumored to be playing with a zero taper wooden shaft with sixteen inches of zero taper. With a gross of blanks I turned one like that. It did all the flexing halfway up the shaft and was unplayable. Only shaft I ever snapped, I didn't want it out in the world with my name on it!

I have considerd these hybrids, didn't figure I was the only one. I'll be watching. I have tried a few of the full CF shafts. All OK but some much better for me than others.

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