God bless Terry.

garczar said:

Sears went tits-up for a lot of reasons. HF managers weren't the reason. They got complacent and got left in the dust. Also, merging with Kmart absolutely ruined whatever name recognition they may have had. They also totally snoozed the coming on-line revolution. Had they gone digital early on before they ditched the catalog they MIGHT have survived. They killed themselves.

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All that and they didn’t have carts.

bradsh98 said:

Thanks for the tips!

I actually have a Grizzly 5HP cabinet table saw, and a shop full of Grizzly woodworking equipment that I've never even plugged in. I've got a 24" planer with a Shelix helical cutterhead, a 24" drum sander, a 14" vertical bandsaw, an 8" jointer, and a large cyclone dust collector.

I do frequently use my "mobile" shop tools, such as a Kreg router table, Dewalt contractor saw, Grizzly drill press, and my miter saws, along with my Bosch dust extractor. Once the work on my shop is completed, I hope to have all of the stationary equipment in place, and fully functional, which will make life much easier.

I love the idea of using an adjustable angle base router. The only reason that I haven't invested in upgrading my sub-rail modification tooling, is because of the low volume of work that I'm seeing. When I posted that tooling in 2021, I said that I was doing about 10 sets of Brunswick rails per year. Funny enough, that number has steadily decreased. In fact, I think that I did 2-3 sets last year, and I've only done 1 set this year, so far.

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Wow, you get all that stuff set up, it wont take too long before you wonder how you ever got along without it!

I've worn a baseball cap for as long as I can remember. Inside, outside, at the pool table, and dinner table. Heck I probably slept with my hat on. I came back to APA league from a long time off, and joined a random team, who turned out to be a great crew.

About 2 years into playing with that team I was in a tough match during playoffs. I sat down collecting my thoughts, removed my hat, and turned to look at my teammates. The girls had a shocked look on their faces, and the guys start laughing. I don't know what that was all about, and continue to play. When the match wraps up, I turn to my team and give them high fives, fist bumps, etc. As I approch the girls with shocked looks on their faces they say "OMG, you have no hair! YOU'RE BALD!"

The perversion of our pool game continues. It's the "player's" fault, imo, for thinking tight pockets give an edge to better players, and take away some more luck. Diamond standardized it with their "pro-cut" pockets and mile deep shelf. Now other table manufacturers think its a good idea and take it even further.

All it does is make the game more boring, and its a boring sport to begin with.

In all my years of playing, the guys that wanted the tightest tables might have had a lifetime run of 140 in straight pool and 6 racks in 9 ball. That was just one or two players that at least could legitimately play. The rest of the people would be like a 520-600 today that insisted tight pockets are good.

let's move this cue $950

This looks awful.

The qualifiers for the British Open Snooker championships is on now.

3% of the top 100 players are women. Interesting

I have seen Scruggs BEM - no stain - plain Jane’s - more than any other variety of TS PJ cues. Sort of like TAD style forearms but with plain BEM butt sleeves- no inlays - maybe a ring or two- SS joints and some 3/8 10 joints-

sjm said:

I have discussed shot conceptualization with many of the women who are in the BCA Hall of Fame, Allison Fisher included, and some of the top women players of all time are counted among my closest friends. I have played hours and hours of pool with many of them, Allison Fisher included, and I have socialized with many of them on a regular basis. I am not speculating. I have also attended about 100 WPBA events in my life.

Still, competence is relevant if you mean competence in the ability to determine the percentages and, thereby, design the right shot for the right occasion. Yes, it can be argued that this might be deemed a competence gap.

Cueing competence, however, is not relevant here. If a man and a woman are equally competent in shot execution, the man, with very rare exception, will be the better player because of his edge in decision making and shot design. I am hard pressed to think of even three exceptions I have ever seen at a pro level of play.

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Stu,

As always I have really enjoyed your contributions to this thread. I would like to add something that hasn't been touched on I don't think, but I do think it rests at the heart of this issue.

Maybe someone in the academic field will have an easier time confirming this information (I am looking at you Doctor Dave). I believe adult men have somewhere between 12 and 17 times the amount of testosterone in their body when compared to adult women. As boys age they experience periods of large doses or exposure to large amounts of testosterone. I think there is a period between 3 and 6, and then again when boys are adolescents. If we were talk about the relative difference of any substance at 12 to 17 times, I think most people would accept that this is a significant difference. In addition to this, what is the effect of this difference OVER TIME?

For me, it seems reasonable to think an increased exposure to testosterone over time is different than the supplementing of testosterone or estrogen when a person decides they are trans or whatever the right term is. Sure a trans woman or man begins to receive the biological benefits and costs of their changed hormones, but it starts when they start changing their gender.

A lifetime of alcohol abuse ruins a liver. A night of alcohol abuse cause a headache. I realize hormones are not alcohol, but I find it hard to believe there are no effects of testosterone or estrogen that are a function of time. Additionally, in talking about the differences of men and women players who are not trans, I don't think it's an unreasonable argument to suggest that testosterone does not only influence strength. It helps to regulate emotion, increase aggression, and tolerate risk taking. All of this, it would seem to me, would influence decision making.

I find it frustrating that much of the modern discussion related to men and women does not really (in my view) talk about the relative difference of testosterone. I think some people. like to pretend that this is not significant, when it clearly is. Suppose I suggested to everyone that there was no difference in their coffee or its effect on their body, now or over time, if we increased the sweetener in their coffee by 12 times. Everyone would be aghast at the horror and amused at the ridiculousness of my suggestion.

kollegedave