You might want to message 60inchcueguy or what I did was call Schmelke and ordered a blank and had a local cue maker finish it off ......out of it for under $500

Bob Jewett said:

I may have been remembering the first US Open in Atlantic City. At least one of the Matchroom events did have timers and I think the scorekeepers did the timing.

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I was scorekeeper at that US Open in Atlantic City. We had stop watches.

hello said:

By elite I mean the best players that won tournaments and placed highly in a lot of them.I think Grady mentioned in an accu stats commentary that in the 70'ies Buddy won 12 out of 14 tournaments finishing second in the other two.Thats elite to me.

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That seems a rather narrow perspective. There are a gaggle of players in the history of the game that were world class, elite players that were not “tournament players” regularly, if at all. While I won’t denigrate those that choose the path of being tournament players, they’re not the same as high stakes gamblers, it’s a different kind of animal. For you to disregard those that didn’t grind it out on the tournament trail seems a bit short sighted to me, but everyone’s different and you’re entitled to your opinion.

Bob Jewett said:

No. They go as a different function called arcsin(). It means "the angle whose sine is the given fraction of a radius." The important distance is how far from the center (measured perpendicular to the path of the cue ball), the object ball is struck. So, it the object ball is contacted full ball, that distance is zero and the arcsin(0) is 0 degrees of cut. If the object ball is contacted at 15/16ths of the radius from center, the cut angle is about 70 degrees. That's the thinnest hit shown in the diagram.

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So I take it arcsine(fraction) calculates the angle from the fraction and sine(angle) calculates the fraction from the angle? Nice to know (for an uneducated mathnerd like me). Makes it easy to make a chart like this:


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