SBC said:

Anyone putting league cut pockets on a 9 foot table needs to be executed.

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Why is that?

garczar said:

No on the pins. They are not a direct/easy fit on Radial. They have two, the orig. and the Wavy2 and neither is a good fit on a 'real' Radial pin. Another shaft is the J.Flowers SMO wood. It has a carbon core, never seen/hit one but i've heard a lot of good about them. Pred has the Centro out also. It has a cf core as well.

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Hmmm....well my WX Alpha shaft fits nicely on several radial butts which are the real deal.

I do know radial shafts will not fit on Mezz's wavy thread.

same to you and all the AZB'ers

jasonlaus said:

One thing id bet for sure is that any cue you built would look exactly like this....or worse

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You don't know me.

blasphemous.

jasonlaus said:

I hope you're kidding - its a POS bar cue beat to piss

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Not just any bar cue.
It's thee bar cue!. Out of the 10 or so bar cues to pick from its the one everyone goes looking for.
Sure, it's old and beat up ( I say it has character) but it's a great player and has held up to the abuse. And all those dings? Well it's been played with so much that the dings have been worn back smooth...
It's the perfect cue to go and hustle with.

Is there any reason you couldn't rack/break 10 balls and then just spot the first one made?

I've thought about trying that on a bar box if I can't get on a big table...

bbb said:

interesting reads
thanks @trob and @JAM
surprising to me the billiard tables referred to were pocket billiard tables and not carom billiard tables as its my impression that carom billiards was more popular at that time

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I don’t believe carom was ever as popular in this country like pocket billiards is.

jeephawk said:

What is meant by "fast approaching", what's the real evidence for this, especially in the U.S.?

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prize money has increased the last couple years, in both WNT and PBS. prize fund in 9b world championship is 1 million and US open 500k. plus half a dozen or so 250k events. add the predator events and the qatar 10b (also 500k). it's not golf money, but it's more than it's ever been. OP is always a negative nelly regarding everything in contemporary pool

middleofnowhere said:

I think if you kick two rails into the back of the rack you'll make that ball that's frozen to the back of the rack almost every time.

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that works with 9 ball one pocket starting with 9 balls racked like in 9 ball
i havent read that it works with 11 balls and by now with the number of tourneys of 11 ball onepocket someone would have mentioned it
i would think.