Bob Jewett said:

Around 1977, I played a little trick on one of my regular practice partners, who was the house man at Star Billiards in Santa Rosa. He was also, so far as I know, the person who coined the term "squirt" (AKA cue ball deflection). I had recently discovered the joys of waxing and I slipped a prepared cue ball onto the table.
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With the cue ball behind the line I asked him to shoot a stop shot on a ball near the far corner pocket. The cue ball drew straight back two diamonds. I said, "No, just stop the ball." Again, he drew the cue ball back two diamonds. He knew exactly how he had to hit the ball for a stop shot on that broken in but clean cloth and a normal cue ball. I then explained to him what was going on.

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I didn't know you had such a wicked side in you, Bob!

ghost ball said:

I’m going with stupidity.

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RepaskyCustoms said:

Looking for wrap suggestions for my latest cue creation. I was thinking off-white or beige leather to match the tiger maple points and panels but I've been unable to find the correct shade of leather for sale.

I'm partial to leather wraps but it's hard to tell what the ultimate owner of this cue will want. I'd like to get a general consensus here and that's probably what I'll go with.

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Repasky Customs…….

I looked the photos Martin has on his website, Superior Cues. Here’s the top selections, in my opinion.
However, take a gander at the long list of different leathers without any photos. Just pick one from the
photos, call Martin, tell him which ones you like, ask him if he has any others similar to what caught your
eye and order the wrap. You won’t go wrong with Martin as anyone of esteem on this Forum would attest.

Wine……..Marbled Rust Spanish Bull……Italian Pebble Cognac…….Wild Stallion Cocobolo………Spanish
Bull Burgundy…….Spanish Bull Rust………Buffalo Cocobolo……….Buffalo Cognac…….Cognac Lizard…..
Hazelnut………. I think you can’t go wrong looking at these before pulling the trigger on something different.

KenneyTran said:

It’s a simple and normal practice for Philippine players, the humidity there are crazy. If you watch alex or Efren or many other moneys game there, you’ll see that’s how they clean the ball when gets a ball in hand. They also have tons of powder on the table when or after shooting a ball. Those powder often get onto the ball, so rolling the CB against the rail is a normal practice. They doing that since when they know how to play pool, it’s a common practice. I’ve seen Kaci or Gorst or SVB does it once in awhile to clean CB when break.
IMO, they ref need to inspect or clean the ball often. Maybe they need to setup a glove / towel for player to use or player only can use new glove to play with. I can go on and on with suggestions but to be honest, the wax the CB, I don’t see it happening. I feel that WNT this time has lots of flaws, and may be the CB or set of balls we’re over cleaning before the match start.


FYI: here’s Kaci doing the same

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FYI: and here’s Gorst

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everyone has done that manuever in pool rooms, especially in "old" chalk circumstances. for me it's an ingrained habit. what's the alternative? your pockets? your t-shirt?

Herein lies the rub……..I have explained several times my approach to cue making not as a builder but as a buyer.
What I believe and have long espoused with friends and publicly on the Forum many times is my guiding principle.

Find out what weight ratio works best and stick to it just like all the very best known cue makers have done down
through the years and to this very day. There is a weight ratio scale and find out what works best and stick to it.

A cue shaft should represent 18-22% of the cue’s playing weight. Doesn’t matter if the shaft is piloted or flat faced.
My preference is for 22% and if you look at the weight of shafts made by contemporaneously and historically great
names in cue making, their cues coincided with this approach to a pool cue’s anatomical design. So I just want to try matching the weight of my cues original maple shafts with equivalent weight Kielwood shafts to keep things consistent.

I don’t expect others to embrace my approach but I do challenge those that dismiss this out of hand to sometime
research the cues built by names they might otherwise consider to be heralded names in cue making. The best cue
makers didn’t, and still don’t, build cues this way by coincidence. CF shafts have changed this drastically because of
the added power imparted, lower deflection and synthetic materials composition. But wood hasn’t changed as much.

jasonlaus said:

We know you didn't go to college by the way you spelled it

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Ye, not sure what happened that day. Perhaps it wasa late night post or maybe i just had going to the cottage on my mind. We call it university up in canada. College here is what community college is for u guys. So ye i didnt go to college. Went to uni tho

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