skor said:

I don’t think that at amateur levels, it makes any difference who breaks first.

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I just ran the numbers for my league in the last 1500 games if the players were within 60 Fargo points of each other, the breaker won 49.4% and the non-breaker won 50.6%. This covered 431 games.

GideonF said:

Maybe putting this together with Stu’s recollection it was actually BCA. Maybe they played team and then Darren took second on the singles.

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I can tell you something like that could never happen in APA. Every team/player at the national events (team, singles, showdown) comes from some APA franchise, and APA has never had franchises in the UK. There's no way to get a team or player into the events any other way, and there never has. I do remember hearing some chatter in the past about some teams from outside the US pulling something on CSI, but I thought it was more recent than 25 years ago.

I have on already, upgraded to a 30 inch shaft.

Canadian cue said:

Where are you in Canada? The cheapest route is to 3d print one. I have done this in the past and they turned out nice. You can even incorporate a soft bumper with the use of TPU. I used carbon fiber filament to print the body.

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In Ontario , I don't know anyone with a 3d printer also I want a thread end if I need an extra extension to

Kim Bye said:

2" Exceed extender is available. Exceed just updated the design, they are now called EXC-2K. That's black in colour, you can also get them in red, blue, gunmetal and silver.
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Canadian cue said:

Where are you in Canada? The cheapest route is to 3d print one. I have done this in the past and they turned out nice. You can even incorporate a soft bumper with the use of TPU. I used carbon fiber filament to print the body.

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In Ontario , I don't know anyone with a 3d printer also I want a thread end if I need an extra extension to add to it

skogstokig said:

in scandinavia 7fts are only seen in youth centers. i haven't found any in germany, czechia, austria, poland either. in south europe i have seen them at holiday resorts, but the local commercial pool rooms often have 9ft. i think some regions of france may have them, and play blackball/e8b?

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I know Jayson's final when he won the Blackball world championship was against a Frenchman, think they hosted that year so France must have a bit of a blackball culture.

Zerksies said:

WTH are you going to do with one inch?

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I had a 2 inch , upgraded to the Gorst shaft, need a 1 inch

Your design is possible, but it would involve some reinforcement under the skin sort of speak. You could use a Phenolic sleave at each end of the cue and you install it by creating a face groove and leave a thin veneer of material on the out side. You have to engineer the sleave so as it is still reinforcing the ends. Those areas will still be vulnerable to chipping though, using stabilized or resin reinforced material does help.

Excellent run out by Jeff. 10-8 now.

Sooner32 said:

... If nine ball is too hard, then take up checkers.

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The vast majority of people who play pool do not play well enough to run a rack of nine ball. Should they leave the game?

Fedor makes a triple tough long combo on the nine! 8-9 now

What a combo by fedor to go 9-8

I'm not a big fan of wood buttcaps or joint collars and in this case it's not even a separate piece that can be changed when it cracks. I would not recommend you go forward with this design. You can certainly join two woods together, that's not the problem.

I could try it with my Magic Rack, but........oh never mind.