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Gold Crown 7 Revealed

philly
fastone371 said:
Let me ask you a question. I also have a GC at home and play on Diamonds away from home. Do the Diamonds feel bigger than the GC when you play on them? For some reason a 9' Diamond always feels bigger than my 9' GC, maybe its the big flat rails Diamond uses, I like the GC tear drop rails much better.
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I don't notice that frankly.
Call me crazy. They both play well and true.
To me they even bank the same to me. Both top notch tables.
It's the player not the table.
If anything, I think the GC feels like a heavier, more solid table.
Actually love the thwack sound when hitting a solid shot into a pocket of a GC. Rarely hear that on a Diamond.
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Chicago pool happenings

fastone371
Patrick Johnson said:
Cabrini is behind the big white apartment building (and all the other buildings in between) - I hope you didn't burn any holes in them with your magnifying x-ray vision.

pj
chgo

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Here, this is just for you, since Cabrini Green no longer exists this is what AI says, do try to get over it now please. I guess my Xray goggles worked pretty good. Are you trying to make a fool of yourself? You are doing a pretty good job of it.

"Yes, the tall Cabrini-Green apartments were visible from I-94, as they were located on the Near North Side of Chicago and were among the prominent high-rise buildings in the area."
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McDermott cues in The Color Of Money

Cicerone88
JPB2 said:
That looks great. Since posting in this thread I picked up a D-1. It doesn’t look as nice as your refinished one, but looks good and is in excellent condition. Nylon wrap is in great shape. It hits great. All I’m doing to it now is a new tip. I don’t know I’d ever have it refinished, but if I do it would probably go back to McDermott like yours did. If I get a second shaft it will be a plain old maple one.
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Nice! McDermott does an excellent job and go above and beyond. They refinished and turned down the original shaft (used to be 13.5mm) to my g-core specs at no extra charge. I also requested to leave off the G-core logo on the shaft and they initially said no, but to my surprise ended up doing it for me anyway. Great experience.
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Chicago pool happenings

fastone371
Patrick Johnson said:
Cabrini is behind the big white apartment building (and all the other buildings in between) - I hope you didn't burn any holes in them with your magnifying x-ray vision.

pj
chgo

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Now show me moving views from a mile before in each direction. Your little handycam photo isn't a very good representation. I have to say, judging from your other posts I expected a little more from you. Why are you so triggered over this in the first place, did you call Cabrini Green home??
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Gold Crown 7 Revealed

fastone371
philly said:
I love a well set up Gold Crown.
I have one in my basement. Always loved Gold Crowns. Majestic heavy tables.

I love Diamonds too.
I play on Diamonds almost every day
And love them.

Adjust. Diamond owns the table market in poolrooms.
Brunswick relinquished their dominance on purpose.
They threw their R&D dollars elsewhere
into their other divisions believing pool was dying. Pool is on a big upswing now. Brunswick put themselves behind the 8 ball.
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Let me ask you a question. I also have a GC at home and play on Diamonds away from home. Do the Diamonds feel bigger than the GC when you play on them? For some reason a 9' Diamond always feels bigger than my 9' GC, maybe its the big flat rails Diamond uses, I like the GC tear drop rails much better.
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Chicago pool happenings

Patrick Johnson
fastone371 said:
... the missing windows and the white what I'm assuming were bed sheets being used as curtains floating in the wind outside of the windows were all the clues I needed from I94 to know that I did noy want to be there.
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Cabrini is behind the big white apartment building (and all the other buildings in between) - I hope you didn't burn any holes in them with your magnifying x-ray vision.

pj
chgo

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McDermott cues in The Color Of Money

S
JPB2 said:
It was somewhere in between just shooting pool and the gear focus of today IMO. My experience…Shafts were maple. Then people would sand the crap out of them with Scotchbrite or sandpaper. The pool hall where I bought my first cue you could get a Le Pro or a Le Pro for a tip replacement. That is only a slight exaggeration. Chalk was Master. Meucci had a following. Where I played they’d make fun of the plastic joint. I had one for a while anyway, but there was a big preference for a metal joint where I played a lot. Adam was a popular brand. Heard about mystical custom brands, but saw few. Saw Joss Wests in Denver, Stroud was in Colorado then. One guy from NY had a Balabushka. Well used. Not babied at all. Saw the occasional Viking, Schon, Palmer. Mc Dermott was popular. More so at places without the strong metal joint bias where I played. No break cues. No jump cues. 1x1 or 1x2 cases mostly. The one accessory from then that has disappeared now is the apron. GC skirts would put a black line on your pants.

My recollections from my era in the mid to late ‘80’s.
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Everything you said in this post brought back memories for me. I had a lot of different cues but was fond of Meucci's in the late 80's and 90's. I was already interested in pool before the Color of Money came out but it really ignited it to another degree.

No telling how many shafts I sanded. I got a Joss and was in love with it, I think I really wanted the stainless joint at the time because I thought players better than me were using those. I wanted a Schon because I seemed to regularly take beatings from guys playing with Schon cues. I did have a "break cue" but it was whatever cue I liked the least. First cue was a Huebler sneaky, then an Adam. My cases were Porper and It's George and all my tips were Le Pro.
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Yapp’s Controversial Tournament-Winning Shot in the 8-Ball World Championship … Was it a Foul?

M
Jimmorrison said:
If the ref makes the right call, it’s 9 to 5, with FSR breaking. Is he a favorite from there, obviously not. Is he capable of winning the next five racks, obviously yes.
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I beat Buddy Hall in a match trailing 2 to 7. In a race to 11. Things out of nowhere can just all of a sudden turn around. With players of that caliber, it don't take much. FSR as you call him could have without a doubt won that match. Hell, he might have run out the rest of the set. But will never know will we.
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