muskyed said:

At my house with my beautiful maple wood cherry finished Diamond table, you get one warning if setting chalk upside down, after that you are not invited back. We do have one person not invited back.

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Off subject...had a guy would tap on the rail with his cue (shaft) when he missed. Fairly new GC4... I said I'm coming over to his house and tap on the furniture. He says to me...too many rules here... I said yep.

Early Highlights from Day 5:
Q. C. Tran had a run of 20.
Jaspers ran a 15 and a 12 in the same game.

I get the chalk thing but it’s not the way I grew up playing pool. Talc, cigarettes, chalk, coins all on the rail. Pool was a bit of a mess. Some players even wore aprons.

Ok thanks. Still some nice work on the full splice. I might have it refinished and put a leather wrap on it.

cuefeene said:

Here ya go

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Kao

rexus31 said:

Clog? 2 tbsp of Aramith Ball Cleaner diluted in 8 ounces of 91% Isopropyl Alcohol is a very thin solution.

I bought these but in blue. For some reason, blue is no longer available.

Amazon.com

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Can confirm, those work very well. They also look more classy on a shelf than a plastic bottle does.

I don't want to go through the whole story but I moved 5-6 pieces of Master my opponent used back onto his table three times. The next time I put them on the light while he watched me do it. For the record he was/still is a really good player.

He came to the table and pretty aggressively confronted me about "where's my chalk?" He carried on for a bit with his chest puffed out. I told him I moved it to his table 3 times already and he watched me put it on the light. I said I was sick of having to move a piece of chalk after every shot so I could properly bridge, and I was sick of it being in my line of sight. I also said (hopefully quietly enough so no one heard) that he is a good enough player to not have to use chalk as a target and to mark tangent lines and routes with it.

I don't think he realized I knew what he was doing and was pretty much on tilt after that.

At that point I didn't know him and thought he was an ass, turns out he's a pretty good guy. I don't know if it's related at all but he uses a magnetic chalk holder now.

I seriously doubt you'll find anyone better than Proficient.

Rest In Peace Jeff
Condolences and sympathy to you keith on the loss of your friend and to Jeff’s loved ones
I got to know him from onepocket.org. He was a great guy.

j2pac said:

I had one many moons ago. To be honest, back then I wanted something a little "fancier." I suppose that's why they say that wisdom is earned, and "if I knew then, what I know now."

Those cues have definitely stood the test of time, IMO.

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I have done the same thing. Early in my playing I traded for a nice Meucci Originals cue along with some others. At the time I wanted everything new. Traded it away and played with a new script Meucci. Today I am beginning to collect Meucci Originals and have no desire for a script one at all. One of the cues I wish I had kept was a plain Heubler Sneaky. Loved the way it felt but wanted fancier stuff at the time. Silly.

Just curious how well these are built , and will the bearings hold up with those big chucks. The parts on those are probably proprietary and nothing else fits them. Just food for thought