jay helfert said:

Live and learn Rusty. I had all my own tools to change tips, clean up nicks and do general cue maintenance. My motel room was often my work shop. You could come into my room and see a cue in the corner upside down, new tip on the floor drying. I'd leave it like that overnight and be able to shape it the next day. Oh yeah!

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I can just imagine , I never went on the road playing pool even though Billy Saunders tried hard to get me to go with him , I had a wife and kids , and she was a needy one and not always in a good way . A divorce was a good investment in that case !

So,yes I should've gone on the road with Billy ha ha !

j2pac said:

My initial thoughts after scuffing the tip, are promising. It felt a little like phenolic when I first started messing around with it, but it scuffs like extremely hard/pressed leather. Maybe it's resin impregnated, though I am not sure. Seems to hold chalk VERY well. I'm interested to see how it performs.

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It's actually a type of vulcanized rubber. Although when most people hear rubber. they tend to think bouncy and soft. These tips are anything but. I will eventually also have my original idea for standard playing tips which will be resin impregnated, but leather. I don't want to get into the details until I have them fully prototyped and ready to go to market.

straightline said:

Is the L bracket on each ball functional to aiming?

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They can be. Really most aiming systems are just ways of visualizing the key geometric concept of two spheres joining together, There are two contact points, not just one.

Everybody tends to focus on the contact point on the object ball. There's also the contact point on the cueball. Most people tend to skip past that.

Most aiming systems attempt to successfully join those two contact points together. it's easy to find the contact point on the object ball.

Just get right behind the ball in line with the pocket and the center of the ball both vertically and horizontally on the back of the ball relative to the pocket is your cp.

On the cueball the cp is on the front of the cueball (cb) on the centerline of the cb on a line that is parallel to the line for the object ball (ob).

The line between those two points is the travel line. If you can make the cb travel along that line, the ob will go in the pocket (all things being equal).

It gives you a starting point for a center ball strike on rhe cb. Whatever way visualizing that and joining those two spots together works for you is what you should use.

You can use an L shape visualization que on both balls, another one I use is what I call join the T's.

Draw an imaginary line from the pocket (or desired destination) through the center of the ob relative to that desired destination. Then draw a line on the back of the ball on the tangent line. forming the shape of the letter T.



Draw a parallel line to that line starting at the front of the cb back and draw a line on the tangent line on the front of the cb relative to that line also forming the shape of the letter T and then imagine those two T's joining, that's the line of the path of the cb that will make the shot (again, all things being equal)

That's why I call that one joining the T's.

This cue is being a real....

Jaden said:

Here you go.

:edit: That's not exactly the way 'I' visualize, but that's the way that it shows geometrically correct without having to get into a crazy detailed explanation, and it gets the jist of it.

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Is the L bracket on each ball functional to aiming?

The place I play has all Diamonds, 9’s in the front and 7’s in the back for leagues. The guy that owns the place is a Diamond Dealer as well as owning a table
moving/repair/recovering business. Even he has a hard time keeping the bar boxes in good shape, those league people beat those tables to death.

He’ll recover them all and within a week the damage to the new cloth from bangers getting food stains on it because they can’t seem to reconcile that if you want to eat chicken wings, you should eat your wings, wash your hands and then reconvene play seems lost on the drunken league animals. They don’t respect anything.

manas beat orcullo for a decent sum last year or the year before that

Jaden said:

I'd hate to be that apartment owner...

:edit: If I was that apartment owner, I'd be buying a used charger r/t and offering that to him if he would just sign this little piece of paper.

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you would be just fine because it was AI. notice how the hamburgers all stayed on the grill impeccably lined up. other than that it looked quite real. i don't know who could film it and not fall down, or why that vertical picket on the railing would break in its weld first, but that's not as improbable as the hamburgers

Mensabum said:

Jaden's break tips are the Bomb!! I didn't post anything bcuz I didn't want everybody beating me to the punch.
Limited quantities, dontchaknow.
Shame on me.

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My initial thoughts after scuffing the tip, are promising. It felt a little like phenolic when I first started messing around with it, but it scuffs like extremely hard/pressed leather. Maybe it's resin impregnated, though I am not sure. Seems to hold chalk VERY well. I'm interested to see how it performs.

jay helfert said:

Sorry Patrick but a very narrow tip imparts more english with an off center hit. Curvature (nickei or dime) doesn't do that. Same size tip, the curve has little to no effect on the application of english or "spin" as you call it.

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Does a narrow tip contact the CB farther from center?

pj
chgo

krelldog said:

Shawn Wilkie or BJ Ussery ?

Big table 9 or 10 ball ?

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Shawn has a cooler head, if it gets tight I think he wins.

Who is better?


Begs the question, WTF _is_ better? You always hear, "The best player doesn't always win."

He just wins more - unless he doesn't? Even if you got credible odds on something, you may need a lot of repeats before you get any returns.

jay helfert said:

Biado, Roda, Chua, Kokoy and Januarta.

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What is the latest with regards to Orcullo?

InsertCleverNameHere said:

Danny D suggested this a long time ago. Not sure if it's ever been tried but I like the concept.

I don't think today's break rules are great by any means but it does provide some solid variance in layouts and the cueballs final resting spot so it's good in that sense.

I'd like to see what happens if the 1 in the side is outlawed! lol

People didn't like that the corner ball was dead but now with templates and 9 on the spot the 1 in the side is pretty close to dead too. But again, the varied layouts is a pretty solid outcome.

Templates are going nowhere but they have a lot to do with the consistency people make the 1 in the side.

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Danny was right!

briankenobi said:

that would be an interesting match to watch.

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Could go either way

bbb said:

I have not read the whole thread
I apologize…..but
The probate people and the attorneys have to understand the status of the items that were not joe’s own cues
And what was not his but given to him for repair or consignment
The ones trying to screw the rightful owners are scumbags
In my opinion

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When outright greed rears it's ugly head!

CocoboloCowboy said:

Well this story is not over, and apparently the Court in Texas will decide something. Sadly the Salazar Family did not apparently try and sort out what Cues Joe owned, and what Cue were Consigned to Joe for Sale. Rturn Cue to Owner upon Joe death.

I am not sure if Joe kept books logging in its consigned, logging them out when sold, with payment to consignee info. Or records of Cues returned that did not sell.

Paper trails always helps with these matters, not sure if Joe was that organized in his business.

In one way I feel sorry for Joes family if he was not organized with a set of Books with good records what Cues Joe Owned, and what Cues were on Consignment.

JMHO

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Joe did notate the full information on every cue he had. I saw him refer to his info sheet more than once.

garczar said:

If i opened a bar today i'd go looking for decent used Valley's EVERY time. Get decent balls and cueballs and you're good. NO way i'd spend 6dimes on Diamonds.

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Plus Ridgeback rails. Then you're your good.