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Tip Decisions... AZB Help me pick a couple to try Please. (and Thank you!)

Bob Jewett
Jaden said:
I have randomly sampled my tips with a durometer and while they technically aren't defined s/m/h but are rather color coded to how hard they are. Silver, Blue, Green, Red. It would be overly cumbersome to test every single tip with a durometer.
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Guido Orlandi measures all the tips he puts on with a durometer, and sorts them. He has found that the labels are not very precise. (or at least he did the last time I talked to him about this)
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Tip Decisions... AZB Help me pick a couple to try Please. (and Thank you!)

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Jaden said:
I have randomly sampled my tips with a durometer and while they technically aren't defined s/m/h but are rather color coded to how hard they are. Silver, Blue, Green, Red. It would be overly cumbersome to test every single tip with a durometer.
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I am aware that it can be done, but not having performed the test myself, how long does it take to get a solid reading? If it was only 10 seconds per tip (for example) and you had a regular who knew the hardness level that they preferred in a tip they bought from you, I would think as long as you were within a couple digits, that would be a selling point.
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Very unique pool cue with an 8 Point (Staircase Point) design.

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This is not my cue, and these are not my pics, but I just wanted to ask about this cue, and get some thoughts about it, because I just think it looks so interesting, and super cool looking.

I believe it is a custom cue, from an unknown Japanese cue maker, but I do not know. I tried to research the name on the butt plate, but could not find anything. It is a Japanese name though. That is all that I could learn about the name, lol.

Anyways, I learned that the point design is referred to as a "Staircase Point" Design, but no idea who came up with that term, lol, but it makes sense. It appears to have 2 short points, on opposite sides, with two more points going up a little higher, and then two longer points going up a little higher, and then one last point at the very top, on opposite sides. I never seen anything like it before, and probably never will again.

Curious if anyone here knows of any cue makers who have done this type of design, with the points?

Just curious, because I just think the points look so cool.

Thanks for any thoughts.
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John Schmidt runs 820

Bob Jewett
If you look at the probability just from the 100 BPI average, running 820 seems to be a serious outlier. With a 100 BPI, he is roughly 36% to run 100 or more from the current shot. 800 is that to the eighth power, and 820 or more is a 1 in 3833 chance. I don't think he had anywhere near that many innings in the current series of attempts. He plays at a rate of about 200 balls per hour, and that would average two attempts per hour.

I'm not questioning that the run happened, I'm just saying that the usual probability calculations don't add up, so maybe there is some psychology or something else going on.
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