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WNT Hanoi Open 2025, Vietnam, Oct 7-12

Bob Jewett
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Isn't Brendan Moore the Matchroom Tournament Director? Even if a shot cannot be appealed from the head ref to the Tournament Director, I would think that Brendan, with his long history as a ref in pool as well as snooker, could give Marcel a 5-minute lesson that would help significantly. But perhaps Brendan feels that Marcel has been doing just fine.
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I'm not certain, but I believe Brendan is no longer the TD.
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Original Balabushka bumper

WildWing
Some of you are getting hyperventilated over the originality of a bumper. Desirable, yes, but bumpers darken over time with use. If you want to sell something with a brand new KU bumper, I get it. But over time, they develop the same color with use. Top, or right, Here's an early Joss, original KU bumper. Then two Scruggs cues with new replacement bumpers, thanks to our own Chris Hightower. I preferred brown bumpers over black, so I changed them. Then a Richard Black with a brown bumper that has darkened so much over the years, it's darker than the KU bumper on the Joss. Interesting thing about the Black bumper is that it's a bit smaller than the standard, KU, or replacement. Not sure how Richard did that. The KU bumper darkens over time as well; it gets close to unrecognizable from its original state.

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Original Balabushka bumper

Chopdoc
WildWing said:
For what it's worth I've heard two theories on the masking tape. One, from someone else, the bumper was considered replaceable, and the tape would make it easier to do so. Two, my theory, was that tape around the bumper would seal the bumper against the buttplate, and dampen the sound of the cue hit, less of a void. Other theories welcome.
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I have thought it was a possible safeguard for the butt cap. We know if you drop the cue on the bumper, sometimes the momentary expansion of the bumper can split the butt cap. But I never felt strongly about that idea.

He could have used it for temporary fitting, to hold the bumper in with friction, then just never bothered to remove it when he ran the screw in to retain it.

And finally, he could have known we would be talking about it after he was gone, and put it there with no particular purpose except to mess with us.

I like the last one. I just feel like it would be cool of old GB was laughing at us for all the fuss over such things.

I think I even saw once a person making some kind of conversation about exactly what brand of tape he used, that he got it at the same hardware store where he got his A joint screws.

I want to picture him in the great cue shop on the sky yelling down at us "it's f'ing tape!" and "it's a f'ing screw!" "I didn't make that part! Look at what I made!" LOL!

I like to think if GB were a machinist and had a metal lathe, he would have made his own f'ing screw.

But he wasn't. And he didn't. So he used what was available.

I told a guy in a pool hall "that's a Balabushka bumper on my Joss". He was fascinated.
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Loaded Carmeli cue

cleitonrocha
Carmeli
Ebony, Snake wood, Iv.....
ill install TIP of your choice
Cue is lIKE NEW
Amazing looking cue in person
Trades only for higher end cues
Butt : 15.5oz
Shafts : 3.8oz - 13mm
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$6100
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Original Balabushka bumper

M
Chopdoc said:
LOL!

I was about to ask how you could tell the difference between age and whatever you said he did. I was skeptical.

Internet myth?

It's too late. Someone will read your post, without reading the follow up, and quote it on Reddit.

Someday a historian will find it and it will become an internet archeological discovery. It will be in their PhD dissertation.

The future is screwed. LOL!
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You're not completely wrong. AI doesn't seem to know the difference between what's real and what's a joke. I've read some really messed up information lately.
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