Rusty in Montana said:

I'm surprised you didn't find any Toam chalk offered for sale cheap . as for the cloth I'd like to find a small square maybe a foot of it just to use for practice jumping a cue ball . then another to line a cue case with for my sneaky Pete cue .

One of these days I'll come across some for both .

Darn nice find !

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Rusty, I see that your cloth is out for delivery today. Hopefully it works for you. If not, you'll have to ask some of the other forum members to see what they have. Good luck.

When planning the dust collections, remember to: ground the pipes, and put a cleanout access on every run.....

What an outstanding cue. GLWS.

pool was more exciting for shortstop level players 40/50 years ago because you rarely knew who you were firing your nut at, esp if you scuffled in the all night action bars

NathanDetroit said:

JB has a dedicated breaker, I believe.

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He didn't a few months ago. Login to view embedded media

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KAP1976 said:

I've long wanted to do a challenge where we set up a table with the same balls, cloth, rails and pocket sizes from back in the day and have professional players test it out with the type of cues used back then, both break cues and playing, with the same types, ferrules, break cue tips and shaft diameters.

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To that I'd only add that many road players back then had to use house cues in order to promote the stall. And some of those house cues weren't exactly straight.

garczar said:

based on that pic it looks another generic chinese home table.

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played on this table last sunday. table was low for my liking. the table was in a sorry state. cloth was dirty and never managed properly. traces of stain and never once been atleast cleaned. I played decent on this table initially and won a string of games but then got into the worst possible bad funk of losses that I could remember and only regained my stroke during the last few racks. the rails were ok but the pockets were annoyingly unforgiving. they got a weird bounce on them and left a lot of hangers. also, spat out balls on 2 instances so I couldn't really power draw or spin a lot that often. cloth was randomly heavy on some areas but mostly heavy so it's really tricky. even the house cues were in such a sorry state, like loose cracked/ferrules for crying out loud. the only good thing about it is that the table has a good level roll on it. I must say, a waste of a pool area.