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Falcon Cue

Chopdoc
Matt_24 said:
Rtoron,

This cue previously belonged to me. I came to own it through a trade deal with another collector, and it was NOT cheap. It was marketed to me as an F24 prototype. The collector I dealt with sells a lot of very expensive cues and has a good reputation so I have no reason to believe otherwise. I had a very nice transaction with him.

This F-24 has a non-standard joint material (these were released in steel, but the joint is an bone-esque material). The inlays are gorgeous. They are not ivory. The leather wrap is very nice, and the cue plays great.

It has no logo on the cue anywhere. You don't see many F-24s for sale (the pic you posted above is one I owned a decade or more ago). I ended up trading this cue, with a collection of cues, to our mutual friend you are dealing with, for something extremely special. I still have a bit of trader's remorse because every cue in this package was really nice.

This cue was made in the canadian plant. I'm sure there were not many of the F-24 manufacturered and every "good" FALCON appears to be in Europe. These have a lot of work in them. They were the "high end" model of that initial catalog. The FALCON sold cues cut and pasted above above are in no way what this cue is. As many would say, it's worth what someone would pay. Well, I paid (in trade) several thousand dollars, plus. It was worth that to me. I think it's an exceptional cue, and something special for your collection.
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Really cool.

That post, and this thread, had me looking at Falcon cues again. Although I found them cool, I was never attracted enough to snag an example of one for my collection. So, I finally did.

Nothing so special as that prototype, but not a bad example, and in excellent condition with original Falcon JPs. It's a late 90s model.

Falcon V-7 in the Victoria line.


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Early detection/cancer screenings.

j2pac
JusticeNJ said:
I've had some rough gastro issues this year and had and endoscopy and colonoscopy. Endo found some stuff that needs to be monitored that if left to smolder long enough doesn't end well. But now I'm in the system with regular screenings and office visits to manage it. Had I not just gone that ONE time, god knows how it would've ended for me.

God gave me and my wife one kid, though we wanted more. My job is to stick around for as long my daughter needs me. So I do it all for her and there's no procedure or prep bad enough for me to skip out on that job.

And since this site is like 99.999% old men - just get the damn colonoscopy!
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I've had two roto rooters so far. The prep is not pleasant.
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“ALL IN ONE” Progressive Practice Drill – Billiard University Playing Ability Exam IX

dr_dave
freds said:
I found that #11 - rack 15, remove 4, 22 strokes - is much more difficult than #10, rack 10, 30 strokes. Seems like a much bigger jump than other levels, B- to B is a lot easier than B to B+
The 8 extra strokes of course are big, but the 15 ball break seems to cause a lot more problems (even w/removing 4), and it's much harder to get shape on the 1 ball. Maybe just my table (and me.)
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That is my experience as well. Level 10 seems very easy and Level 11 seems hard. I also think Levels 14 and 15 should be harder. I just spoke to Bob for a while and we think a good solution could be to allow 25 strokes on Levels 11-15. Do you think 25 strokes (instead of 22) makes Level 11 easier enough, realizing that it still needs to be harder than Level 10?
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