Rest of story, please. No, let me guess. Payout not specified. When the dust settled, the Calcutta Director came up with a split that favored his friend (or someone who threw him some jelly) or disfavored his enemy. Moral of the Story: split should be set out in writing by Director and announced at beginning of auction.

Nah.. your over thinking it lol

straightline said:

Schmelke used to stain their shafts any color they had.

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I was hoping for dark roasted, aka torrified, rather than stained.

CarromBilliards said:

Hi there, do you happen to still have any and ship tp Ontario Canada at all? Ill take one if you have some left? email me at cueistic@gmail.com please for further convo.

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Dm me your address. I'll check shipping cost

SSDiver2112 said:

I’ll ask the same question but for a Mid America lathe. I assume it should. MA doesn’t offer one. Maybe they will with the new owner but I do not see one yet.

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I have something in development - not sure of an eta but it is coming. I have a prototype in hand but want to make sure it is 100% before releasing it to customers.

Schmelke used to stain their shafts any color they had.

Yapp v. Krause, 3-3, the camera found sjm in the front row.

Cue is sold thank you.

Michael Webb said:

I'm also interested if things don't work out.

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Hi, please let me know if you are still interested in these Snaps. Thx.

Think about it. I had 2 revos... One with a flexible shaft and one very stiff. Same diameter. Flexible one had drastically more deflection. Does anyone think that this dramatic difference is caused by a minor difference in end mass alone? The flexibility has a factor, potentially a large one. Golf has had lots of finding and advancement. Pool will have them too

poolscholar said:

Do we have test data from a robot with carbon fiber shafts?

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No offense, but you sound like you want someone else to spend weeks/months planning an experiment and then performing it, to come up with answers that agree with your theory.

Do you know why in pool there might be 3 or 4 people in the past 20 years that have ever done experiments and published them? Because it's hard as hell, and time consuming as hell.

Edit to add, and hardly anyone makes the effort to read/understand the published results. So the tester says "why bother again?"

iusedtoberich said:

Science means having a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, showing the test data, forming a conclusion based on the test data, and then publishing it all so that others can repeat. Then repeating all of the above if necessary. Dr Dave and others have done all that. Using a robot is not a prerequisite to any of that.

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Nobody properly understands how shaft flexibility or lack of it affects deflection.

We're where golf was 20 years ago. If you're going to do human testing at least use more than 1 human

not to mention basic sample size issues... we're not in high school science fair are we

dr_dave said:

FYI, all these experiment were done with a cue-testing machine, not a person! Although, careful human testing can give accurate results, even if the shooter is not a pro.

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Do we have test data from a robot with carbon fiber shafts?

It's been my experience that it's the top 3 places get a pay out 1st place 50% 2nd place 30% 3rd place 20% if I remember correctly .

But since I've said this I should give a disclaimer that you're findings maybe different .