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Kamui Tips Q/A

jay helfert
Rusty in Montana said:
Then to finish up that thought Jay it was Frank McGowan who suggested to me to get a 4 way wood rasp to use as a tip tool so I can blame him for that .
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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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First DigiBalls are in

TwistedTexasStyle
nataddrho said:
In electronic hardware development it is a Bad idea to jump from an alpha stage to thousands (full production) without a beta stage. 100 tests the market and allows room for feedback.
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Sounds like you are getting good advice. No need to set up a distribution network as Aramith is well connected but if they give you a couple of hundred to share with your friends....keep me in mind!😉
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Big Ko on Waxed Balls

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GideonF said:
I think there is some confusion between (a) clean and polish and (b) wax/silicone.

Attached is a picture of my Super Pros that are over 15 years old after I cleaned and polished them with Aramith Ball Cleaner. No wax. They looked like they were new out of the box after I polished them.

I am pretty sure that new out of the box Aramiths are just polished. In particular I don’t think the new CB would act like the CB in the Ko video.
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They appear to have yellowed. Is that aging, photographic, Aramith cleaner? :ROFLMAO:
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China Open

Jaden
skor said:
There was a statistic analysis that showed that there is no difference for the end result, so why do people feel so strong about it?
On one side, I like winner breaks (and the looser rack), sort of prize and punishment for the winner and looser, works great for amateurs, didn't work well for pros when they would argue about the racking and it took forever to rack and get the game moving... now that was a pain to watch... then came referee racking and then the Sardo rack etc etc but that's another story.

Here is another perspective, you travel across the world to play in a tournament, winner breaks format, loose the lag, your opponent break and runs 9 racks, you pack your cues and go home... fun...
Or go with alternate break and at least you get on the table and maybe on the score board, even if we follow the statistic that show that since it doesn't matter, you were about to lose anyway at least you got to play.

All the WNT events early stages are boring as hell, all the seeded players are playing dead money and win 9-0 or 9-1, give the dead money a reason to come back next time.

The ability to comeback from an 8-1 or something like that, that we saw in Arizona, means that the players have figured out the break.
You want to keep it interesting and keep the winner breaks, bring the 3 points rule in. we will see less cut breaks and more good old pool.
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Well you have to understand that those statistical analyses have an inherent flaw. It's only showing tv table matches, which are going to err to the side of the better performers. So yeah, there might not be a difference in the break between those players who are playing better and are more likely to be on the tv tables and to get farther in the tournament. but that doesn't mean that the players who aren't playing as well aren't having more difficulty than they normally would be with other breaks.

Now don't get me wrong I'm not arguing that in the long run, it's different. Honestly, I doubt that it is, but any statistical analysis needs to include all of the matches to be truly reliable. The tv tables are inherently going to have better performing players on average.
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