Catalin said:

I was never a fan of predator butts. But recently I tried a friend's 4000+ Panthera and it’s a great cue for sure. It figures since it’s not actually made by Pred Are lower price Jacoby cues comparable in terms of construction, weight and balance?


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I have 2 Jacobys, both slightly under $900. They are fantastic cues. I have their Ultra shaft and their Kielwood shaft for them. Also have a Rhino carbon shaft and a new Rhino carbon Must shaft. Right now I am using their Kielwood shaft, and my wife uses the Rhino shaft.
I'm not going to say they are better than my Schon's, but they are also not worse. You don't need to spend over a thousand dollars for a great playing cue, these 2 Jacobys will play just as good as their $4000 ones.
They are the 4th and 5th from the right.
Two great cue makers.

Somebody here was asking if Parica’s family was well off. His dad was a cop, it’s a toss-up about his family’s wealth. I know this for a fact because they live a few blocks from where I reside. I’ve watched Jose play using a Coke case to propped him up on his shots. He was a reed thin 5 foot boy, about 12/13 years when he and his dad were hustling the shortstops in all of the seedy pool halls back home.

jeephawk said:

Sounds good, thanks.

Was just wondering if anyone had experience with the Kamui on the Becue since those are offered and in different types, including SS. If the carbon fiber doesn't change feel or performance in some way then I'm likely going medium or soft on a Prime II but all insights most welcome!

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I have not put a Kamui on the Becue, but I played with Kamui black hard for years. In my personal experience, a given tip has performed the same for me on wood, CF and Kielwood shafts.

-dj

ghost ball said:

I’ve seen Parica play recently, he is a shell of his former self.

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That 76 hear old who handily beat the great white American female hype Savannah Easton? That’s crazy…

Bump. Price lowered to $2,400.

Paul_#_ said:

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For what its worth, Kamui claims its Athlete tip is for CF shafts. It is, like Taom Fusion, a tip of more than one hardness. Fusion's hardness is inside versus outside of the tip. Kamui's has the top of the tip softer and the bottom harder:

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I tried both of those tips, I thought they would be similar but they are not, they Kamui Athlete felt like a traditional medium to me, the TAOM Fusion is much harder, I never liked hard tips but I always like to give a new tip at least a 2 month try, after a while I grew to like the hard tip but neither of these tips lasted to long for me but I acknowledge I'm hard on tips, they usually don't last long for me, went with a Bulletproof Recoil Hard tip, best tip I've ever used.

jtompilot said:

They have those at the Cue Club in Vegas, I was constantly shooting them out of order.

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There are a couple of sets with different colour patterns. The Japanese version of the platinum set is used by one of the big hall franchises in the city. Every time I go there I seem to get confused. All sixes and sevens to me... Literally, need to stop and ask myself is this the 6 or the 7 It's cost me money a few times.

Dynasphere seem to be the go to competition balls where I am living. They play alright, and I don't think they are too disgusting to look at. They have a deal with the hall I usually practice at. I prefer to play and practice with the Aramith balls they have there, reason being, that they tend to stay cleaner for longer. Personally, I prefer the Aramith balls without the black coloured stripes, but I can only find them at a small hall run by a friend. I don't play there as regularly, only the odd small money game with the owner, on the tightest table known to man. So the pleasure of playing with the set I like, is somewhat detached by the pig of a table.

Weekend bump. Trades considered.

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If this was the only set available I think I would have to quit pool, that is nothing short of a hideous design.

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They have those at the Cue Club in Vegas, I was constantly shooting them out of order.

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Well, I think if the Catholic Converter is standing at the altar when the Altarnator comes, there won't be a Catholic Converter left to go bad. I hear those Altarnators are hard to stop.

Here is a link to some Becue reviews from way back when in the time machine.