give it some time greg before you say it works as described.

Well the fight or flight type decisions are always in the game with tough situations. Do I want to try a hard shot or play a difficult safety. So when that situation arrives I favor take the shot. As I would rather go down swinging than go down trying to duck and hide.

so only one semi pro or lower pro made it through three matches and then lost.

so how long will these players keep coming to all the tournaments now after losing and seeing they have virtually no chance.

big world opens should be a real test of the best. but these smaller 2nd level tournaments should be structured so many of the entrants have a real chance of cashing and even winning.

scdiveteam said:

I chop my SPs so the points are closer to the joint. Click below to view pics and read procedure;

https://forums.azbilliards.com/thre...opped-cocobolo-fs-with-kielwood-shaft.583459/

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Out of curiosity, why don’t you just use longer dowels for your blanks if you want the points up higher? I suppose it might be the amount of time if you are doing a long tenon for rings.

Matt_24 said:

PM me how to repair ivory ferrules. I have some with small cracks that I'd love to repair before they get worse, if possible.

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Roger Petit made me a shaft with ivory ferrule. It was his first ivory ferrule and an old cracked cueball was the source. The ferrule had a slight crack on delivery and Roger pointed it out with, "if it fails I will replace. I used the Crack (and still do) as A front sight. Keeping the Crack as the side to strike whitey on any off center strikes.
My treatment of the crack in ivory started with acetone to penetrate then super glue. Acetone is solvent for super glue and my theory is it allows the super glue to penetrate as deep as possible in the fissure. So far so good But it's only been, uh roughly 35 years.

btw, that's too much money for a decal cue made purely from maple with maple shaft and the cheapest type of leather.

you might as well buy one now for $675, it'll be cheaper than buying it later once they're gone for $1675 from a flipper